Quotes About Language

I try to write an essay every time I speak.

Music is essentially an emotional language, so you want to feel something from the relationships and build music based on those feelings.

I like to be in a European city where I can speak my language.

I do accents. Sometimes when I've had a few drinks, I speak in different accents all night long, and then at the end of an evening someone will say to me, 'Seriously, where are you from?'

Cussing ain't for everybody.

Energy is the language spoken by your body. You probably already know that your brain sends bioelectric signals to your organs and muscles through the nerve pathways in your body. But did you ever consider how your brain talks to your cells?

How come adults got away with saying things that would sound rude coming out of her mouth?

One would think of a boy laying syllables with his tongue onto a woman's skin: those are lines sewn entirely of silence.

I will praise your madness, and in a language not mine, speak of music that wakes us, music in which we move. For whatever I say is a kind of petition, and the darkest days must I praise.

I am your boy drowning in this country, who doesn't know the word for drowning and yells I am diving for the last time!

Deafness isn't an illness! It's a sexual position!

I have to learn to talk like the guys down the Hill. The "cats" down the Hill, that is. I have to be hip.

He loved florid verbiage and jaw-jaw until he cuts himself on Occam's razor.

The author recognizes the power of the persecuting tribe referring to members of hers consistently as "snakes" or "roaches". This dehumanizing language, she realizes, seeps into the subconscious and makes it easier to forget that fellow humans were created in God's image.

The language of intrinsic human rights represented a significant advance beyond the previous language of world religions in terms of its universal applicability and its thiswordliness.

Surely it's no coincidence that the word listen is an anagram of the word silent.

Seharusnya Islam adalah sebuah agama bagi seluruh dunia, terlepas dari ras, bahasa maupun kebudayaan. Tidak masuk akal bahwa Tuhan mengharapkan semua orang di seluruh dunia untuk belajar membaca tulisan Arab, bukan?

Yang disebut sekolah-sekolah Islam di Inggris menyedot habis energi murid-muridnya dengan memaksa mereka membaca dan mengingat-ngingat ayat Al-Qur'an dalam bahasa Arab, yang maknanya tidak dimengerti oleh para murid maupun guru. Jika memang ada diskusi mengenai Islam, sang Imam (yang terkadang bahkan tidak bisa bahasa Inggris) bebas mendefinisikan Islam sesuai kehendaknya, dan siapa yang bisa membantah?

No escribo, luego no soy.

Des quantités de livres dorment ainsi en moi, des bons et des mauvais, de tout genre. Des phrases, des mots, des alinéas et des vers qui, pareils à des locataires remuants, reviennent brusquement à la vie, errent solitaires ou entament dans ma tête de bruyants bavardages que je suis incapable de faire taire.

Touch is the most basic, the most nonconceptual form of communication that we have. In touch there are no language barriers; anything that can walk, fly, creep, crawl, or swim already speaks it.

Ideographically the Chinese represent wife by a woman holding a broom—certainly not to brandish it offensively or defensively against her conjugal ally, neither for witchcraft, but for the more harmless uses for which the besom was first invented—the idea involved being thus not less homely than the etymological derivation of the English wife (weaver) and daughter (duhitar, milkmaid).

But one who speaks in a borrowed tongue should be thankful if he can just make himself intelligible.

Moving from phonetics to etymology, 'vagina' originates from a word meaning sheath for a sword. Ain't got no vagina.