Quotes About Language

That 'simple desire' to share something meant that we could enter the world of language without words, where everything is always clear and there is no danger of being misinterpreted.

There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind.

Sometimes I think it's possible to mistake desire for clarity and talking in a no-nonsense way for aggression.

Poetry is a satifying of the desire for resemblance.

Thirst is a language even the grass understands.

YOUR WORD IS YOUR WAND. THE WORDS YOU SPEAK CREATE YOUR OWN DESTINY

It might be inevitable that we have to confront the idea that our destiny is to be one world with one language.

You know, words have strange destiny, too. They grow. They get old. They die. They come back.

William Shakespeare

Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one's own and that of other people.

We should never lower our dignity by lowering our language.

He talked with more claret than clarity

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

I took a Russian class at Notre Dame. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would fly someday in a Russian spacecraft with two cosmonauts, speaking only Russian.

As our dreams make evident, the psyche's own language is that of image, and not idea.

Language can't solve everything, of course, but it does carry our dreams and our ideas.

Apparently, my hopes, dreams and aspirations were no match against my poor spelling, punctuation and grammar.

An important fact about verbal behavior is that speaker and listener may reside within the same skin.

Good English, well spoken and well written will open more doors than a college degree... Bad English will slam doors you don't even know exist.

My grammar be's ebonics, gin tonics, and chronic.

I think the education system is great just the way it is. There's kids in my neighborhood in Los Angeles, seven years old, that can already speak fluent Spanish.

Botany is the art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin.

The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education.

You know there is a problem with the education system when you realize that out of the 3 R's only one begins with an R.