Quotes About Language

Society matters not so much. Words are everything.

How strange that the world should change because of words, and words change because of the world

When you go to a country, you must learn how to say two things: how to ask for food, and to tell a woman that you love her. Of these the second is more important, for if you tell a woman you love her, she will certainly feed you.

The Apache don't have a word for love," he said. "Know what they both say at the marriage? The squaw-taking ceremony?" "Tell me." "Varlebena. It means forever. That's all they say.

Há palavras que são pronunciadas com a simples intenção de agir sobre os outros homens e de produzir algum efeito: o que sucede também quando se escreve. Elas não têm valor: as únicas palavras que contam são as pronunciadas tendo em vista a verdade e não o resultado.

Why not admit that other people are always Organic to the self, that a monologue Is the death of language and that a single lion Is less himself, or alive, than a dog and another dog? With vision but it is vision builds the eye; And in a sense the children kill their parents But do the parents die? And the beloved destroys like fire or water But water sculpts and fire refines And if you are going to read the testaments of cynics You must read between the lines.

Quotable quotes are coins rubbed smooth by circulation.

If you look up a word in the dictionary, you find it defined by a string of other words, the meanings of which can be discovered by looking them up in a dictionary, leading to more words that can be looked up in turn. There is no exit from the dictionary.

Charming. Charming language. Same as your father. Bad language and hating budgies go together.

Why argue that it was "only words" except to imply that words are trivial, neither serious nor harmful, an argument that at the least elides the issue of what exactly was said and by whom.10

Take a little time to listen to the words you say. If you hear yourself saying something three times, write it down. It has become a pattern for you. At the end of a week, look at the list you've made and you'll see how your words fit your experiences.

The thoughts we've held and the words we've repeatedly used have created our life and experiences up to this point. Yet

Cursing is an affirmation, worrying is an affirmation, and hatred is an affirmation.

Thoughts and words create our future experiences

I believe that should is one of the most damaging words in our language. Every time we use should, we are, in effect, saying "wrong." Either we are wrong or we were wrong or we are going to be wrong. I don't think we need more wrongs in our life. We need to have more freedom of choice.

Words have the power to shoot down or raise up. Sharp cutting words can whirl for years.

Six Stars,' he exclaimed. 'Finding the right words is hard!

Her voice was slightly accented but her French was perfect. Someone who'd not just learned the language but loved it. And it showed with every syllable. Gamache knew it was impossible to split language from culture. That without one the other withered. To love the language was to respect the culture.

Gamache enjoyed going to churches for their music and the beauty of the language and the stillness. But he felt closer to God in his Volvo.

He often said that words told them what someone was thinking, but the tone told them how they felt.

They spoke in semaphore, all punctuation unnecessary. "You?" "Great." They'd trimmed the language to its essentials. Before long it would just be consonants. Then silence.

Mais non. What?' 'Fucked up, Insecure, Neurotic and Egotistical,' he said, slightly embarrassed about using a swear word in front of such a dignified woman,

It's vital to hear your own language, to see it written, to see it valued.

Kebek. An Algonquin word. Where the river narrows.