Quotes About Language

Krungthep Mahanakhon Amorn Rattanakosin Mahintara Yudthaya Mahadilok Pohp Noparat Rajathanee Bureerom Udomrajniwes Mahasatarn Amorn Pimarn Avaltarnsatit Sakatattiya Visanukram Prasit.

Hravat is the Croatian word for "Croat" and it's where we get the word cravat. So Croatia means "tie land.

Vranyo is Russian for lying even when everyone knows that's what you're doing.

In English, the name of every number shares a letter with each neighbor. One shares an O with two, which shares a T with three, which shares an R with four, which shares an F with five, which shares an I with six—and so on indefinitely.

Louis Sullivan, the first great modern architect, declared that form follows function. To understand viruses, or for that matter to understand biology, one must think as Sullivan did, in a language not of words, which simply name things, but in a language of three dimensions, a language of shape and form. For in biology, especially at the cellular and molecular levels, nearly all activity depends ultimately upon form, upon physical structure—upon what is called "stereochemistry.

Our words have no inherent meaning to a corvid; they are arbitrary, but the natural communication system of these birds also involves arbitrary symbols (calls) that refer to specific objects and actions in their world.

If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.

Writing is selection. Just to start a piece of writing you have to choose one word and only one from more than a million in the language. Now keep going. What is your next word?

The home terms still apply. The enthusiasm geologists show for adding new words to their conversation is, if anything, exceeded by their affection for the old. They are not about to drop granite. They say granodiorite when they are in church and granite the rest of the week.

Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children.

American art, like the American language and American education, was as far as possible sexless.

Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.

One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, "Have a nice day."

I don't want to do the type of writing where I recite biography, parentage and education. I want to rise up from the words on the page and do something, hurt someone.

Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world are grammatical.

We should replace bilingual education with immersion in English so people learn the common language of the country and they learn the language of prosperity, not the language of living in a ghetto.

I learned English by watching soaps as a kid, and since I don't have any formal education and can't teach at the universities like other literary writers do.

Clear language engenders clear thought, and clear thought is the most important benefit of education.

More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature.

Why use long words when short ones will do? Not all readers have been to college or university.

A gentleman need not know Latin but he should at least have forgotten it.

The Romans would never have had time to conquer the world if they had been obliged to learn Latin first of all.

There are a hundred thousand useless words in the English language but they come in handy in college football yells.

The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.