Quotes About Language

Without thinking, Lillian let out a few curse words that caused Evie to blanch. One of Lillian's more questionable accomplishments was the ability to swear as fluently as a sailor, acquired from much time spent with her grandmother, who had worked as a washwoman at the harbor docks.

I hate the phrase 'No pun intended.' It's pointless.

The only thing Beatrix knows about being circumspect is how to spell it.

The word "mistress" sounds like a cross between mistake and mattress. "We've

The word "mistress" sounds like a cross between mistake and mattress.

it may be very clear indeed who "owns" culture. It is pronounced in the official language all must learn to speak, is declared if you can't afford to buy the garments that you are employed to sew, and is evident if your call to 911 fails to bring emergency assistance to your neighborhood.

Owen looked at Greg, who shrugged. Owen had no idea what the shrug was intended to convey. Greg rarely said anything. But unlike most people who use words sparingly, he hadn't developed superior forms of nonverbal communication.

We've had this conversation already and watch your mouth, you fuckhead, there's a lady here.

You will not compromise ths part of the mission before it's begun, I hope that's clear. "Or what?" Nick asked, swiveling back to him. "Or I'l fucking cuff you, that's what." Nick bared his teeth. "You can fucking try. And you watch your fucking language. There's a lady here.

following the movement of thinking, a woman escapes the confinement of identity, moving into the open of language. The most temporary membranes serve as shelter. Amongst these membranes, speaking begins, plays its tenuous continuities near and in spite of the accreted institutions that compel anyone to obey, violate and buy, to be situated by identity's grid. But

I stood in the horizontal and vertical cultures of words like a bar in a graph.

Although I doubt He [Jesus] said "believeth" as He was Jewish and not a fancy-pants English fellow.

Sorry, No conprendo I don't speak Loser.

Names have power. In certain cultures, just speaking a man's name gives you mastery over him.

She thought of all the words that went unspoken in the world, throughout time: what happened to them, where did they go? What would happen if they were all spoken? How different would the world be then?

In this city 300 languages are spoken and the people that speak them live side by side in harmony. This city typifies what I believe is the future of the human race and a future where we grow together and we share and we learn from each other.

Did you know, ma'am, that our mutual friend can say "kiss my arse" in six languages?

Deceivingly, Miss Neville, the word vodka means 'little water.' The Russians are masters of the understatement." - Lord Nash

People are always glad when you address them in their own language, I have found, even though your knowledge may not extend further than what you have memorised from a dictionary or phrase book.

If aw his hums and haws were hams and haggises, the country wad be weel fed!

Art is a visual language, not one of words, and so conclusions about artworks based on verbal or written communication are parallel but not a true equivalent.

The secret to those who write is that they come to the art simply because they cannot speak.

A code may be used for secrecy, but also for brevity and truncation. Shorthand is a code in precisely this way and so, often, is modern-day texting.

for many youngsters 'back home' was what they saw out of the window; anything else was just an interesting holiday. The capital's constantly evolving street slang provides the best illustration: Jamaican patois remained its foundation, but it included at least as many hip-hop reference points and a grab bag of longstanding Londonisms – you could visit three different time zones within the space of a sentence.