Quotes About Language

insanity is the inability to communicate your ideas. It's as if you were in a foreign country, able to see and understand everything that's going on around you but incapable of explaining what you need to know or of being helped, because you don't understand the language they speak there.

French is the most beautiful," he said, "and Italian is the most poetic, and Russian the most powerful, German the most solid. But more business is done in English than in any other.

Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.

Can such stiff and formal moldings as words capture the spirit-essence of love?

For this Mary's words were not surcharged with oversubtle meaning. No, she spoke them out swiftly and with sharp clearness and each word had its own weight and meaning and no more, good tools of her mind, but not messengers of vague suggestion.

But she would not be hastened. Words were to her things to be caught one by one and released with difficulty.

Come possono quei rozzi stampi che sono le parole contenere l'essenza e lo spirito dell'amore?

under the decree and guidance of the great King Sejong.

Cómo podían conocer los médicos extranjeros las enfermedades de una mujer china? Quizá entiendan las enfermedades de los bárbaros, pero no las de los refinados y cultos chinos...

Nunca has pensado escribir?, tú hablas en poesía. ¿Lo sabes?

No me digas nada porque está todo claro. ¿Te fijas cariño que a mí también me falló el

How could an argument soothe or settle a controversy when every word is a nest for a bird of doubt? (meaning of words as inferences)

Rhetoric is nothing but reason well dressed and argument put in order.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.

A woman at the rear of the room raised her hand. I was focused on the argument now and made a minor social error, which I quickly corrected. "The fat woman-overweight woman-at the back?"

One barrier... is the impoverishment of classroom language, the failure to cultivate a common vocabulary about inquiry, explanation, argument and problem solving.

Originally the big argument was that they wanted to call it "raw and uncut" and I told them I had a problem with that. When you say "raw" it implies that my show is dirty and that's not the case.

My wife and I have created our own language. We can be at a table with six other people and have an argument without anyone knowing. It doesn't even have to be out loud. It's bizarre.

The fly in her argument is that when she says, 'they' will feel like lemons, we don't know who 'they' are. And 'they' might BE lemons.

Some People think 'coven' is a word for a group of witches, and it's true that's what the dictionary says. But the real word for a group of witches is 'an argument'.

When people say "clearly" something that means there's a huge crack in their argument and they know things aren't clear at all.

Talking with a Martian is like talking with an echo. You don't get argument but you don't get results.

Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.