Quotes About Language

Call him Voldemort, Harry. Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

Anyone can speak Troll. All you have to do is point and grunt.

But, as I delved into Chinese for Dummies, I couldn't help but conclude that the Chinese language is the Great Wall of languages, a clever linguistic barrier erected to keep outsiders out. What, frankly, is wrong with Esperanto? Or alphabets? What is so deficient about an alphabet that uses a judicious twenty-six letters? We can make lots of words with those twenty-six letters, big words even.

Poetry is frosted fire.

Poetry is prose, bent out of shape.

Poetry is perfect verbs hunting for elusive nouns.

Fair speech may hide a foul heart.

The best grammarian still can't write a verse.

Grammarians make no new thoughts, but thoughts make new grammar.

I can't use words to respond to this communication...I can only answer...as a forward!

the problem might be she calls herself "she" ...

We already use catchwords as substitutes for thinking, thereby limiting our vocabulary along with the use of our brains. In

she thought that sometimes you walk right into language as though it's a chair out of place in a dark room: a word, an expression you live with all your life can become suddenly, completely unfamiliar. That night Beatrice stumbled over death, but it was dark, and she was tired, and she believed that she had stumbled across love.

My father's tongue, forever foreign to me.

Thunder in the distance, like a crowd shouting in a foreign language.

Fire and water and smoke and incense and chanting and bells and butter and blood: this was a language whose syllables were translated into physical terms; a language of the elements. It was a language that he hoped might speak to him one day.

I know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude - we've proven that time and time again. People are more ready to fight and die for a word than for anything else. Words shape thought, stir feeling, and force action. They kill and revive, corrupt and cure.

only because language has something in common with the world that it can be used to picture the world, so it is only because of logic that our sentences have meaning at all.

Gottlob Frege's Begriffsschrift.

There is, incidently, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person.

A - ALPHA B - BRAVO C - CHARLIE D - DELTA E - ECHO F - FOXTROT G - GOLF H - HOTEL I - INDIA J - JULIETT K - KILO L - LIMA M - MIKE N - NOVEMBER O - OSCAR P - PAPA Q - QUEBEC R - ROMEO S - SIERRA T - TANGO U - UNIFORM V - VICTOR W - WHISKEY       X - X-RAY Y - YANKEE Z - ZULU

France Talk and Frogs' Legs

Rhyme?" she said. "Is it a crime to talk in rhyme? I'd rather mime, but that takes more time.

Andrea was right. "Dumb" is not a nice word. In fact, there's only one word in the English language that's worse than dumb. "Dumbhead.