Quotes About Language

Words, for all they were flimsy and invisible, had great strength. They could be fortified as a castle wall and sharp as a foil. They could bite, slap, shock, wound. But unlike deeds, words couldn't really help you. No promise ever rescued a person; it was the carrying-through of it that brought about salvation.

If words had flavors, hers would be bitter almonds and coffee grounds.

When you are a kid you have your own language, and unlike French or Spanish or whatever you start learning in fourth grade, this one you are born with, and eventually lose...Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult...is only a slow sewing it shut.

True confession: The reason we don't talk about race is because we do not speak a common language.

Music is the language of memory

If you say the same words over and over, do they become so bleached that there's no color left in them?

Stupid English. English isn't stupid, I say. Well, my English teacher is. He makes a face. Mr. Franklin assigned an essay about our favorite subject, and I wanted to write about lunch, but he won't let me. Why not? He says lunch isn't a subject. I glance at him. It isn't. Well, Jacob says, it's not a predicate, either. Shouldn't he know that?

If you ask me, music is the language of memory

She suddenly remembered studying the brain in science class- how a steel rod pierced a man's skull, and he opened his mouth to speak Portuguese, a language he'd never studied. Maybe it would be like this, now, for Josie. Maybe her native tongue, from here on in, would be a string of lies.

If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.

I can't be told life is beautiful through a normal positive thinking book or a Hallmark movie that language doesn't work for me.

Independent graphic novelists have already achieved good work in terms of design, but all these great minds are writing in English. There is a need for people to write in Hindi.

It is most true, stylus virum arguit, - our style betrays us

The original is unfaithful to the translation.

A butch talks dirty to a women and its sexual harassement. A women talks dirty to a butch and its $3.95 a min.

Beware of what you say when you are in a bad mood; dont mix bad words with a bad mood. You'll have many opportunities to change a mood, but you won't be able to replace the words youve spoken.

Don't like being called sexy & bad! Some of us actually like being called beautiful & gorgeous!

I'm not crazy. I prefer the term Mental Psychopath.

Being Fat, does not give you the right to say you have a Phat Ass.

So classy, making silly words up and being an immature bi....

So tired of being misunderstood. It's seem like when I say something it always understood!!!

Doc just asked a patient, "So besides being pregnant, do you have any other medical problems?" ...didn't realize pregnancy was a "problem."

Every kind of animal can be tamed, but not the tongue of man.

Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth.