Quotes About Language

Whenever you see the word cuisine used instead of the word food, be prepared to pay an additional eighty percent.

Sauces in cookery are like the first rudiments of grammar - the foundation of all languages.

I loved everything about Spain - the people, the language, and the food!

I have been in Paris for almost a week and I have not heard anyone say calories, or cholesterol, or even arterial plaque. The French do not season their food with regret.

The first weeks in the US, I was asking, 'Where is my food?'

I would not rob you of your food or your clothes or your umbrella, but if I caught your German out I would take it. But I don't study any more,- I have given it up.

Parla Come Mangi' --It is a common way to say 'be simple', 'don't try to be rhetorical' literaly: 'speak the way you eat

Violet speaks Spanish and understands it. She loves Cuban food! My mom is very good at teaching her about our culture, whether it be the food or Spanish or explaining to her that she's Cuban.

For 'tis sweet to stammer one letter Of the Eternal's language; - on earth it is called Forgiveness!

I'm sorry.' The two most inadequate words in the English language.

Movement is the universal language of personal freedom.

There is a point where political correctness becomes an acid that erodes freedom.

We breathed the air of freedom without knowing the language or any person.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

I am sure that as soon as speech was invented, efforts to suppress and control it began, and that process of suppression continues unabated.

I'm no linguist, but I have been told that in the Russian language, there isn't even a word for freedom.

We have to reinvest, I think, in the idea of articulacy as a form of personal human freedom and power.

We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold Which Milton held.

Yes, freedom is good, but arguably, grammar is better.

John Paul II spoke to the commoner and to the king, to the tyrant and to the democrat in that same language of freedom.

The only truth is that we cannot speak the truth . The only acceptable viewpoint is that we cannot express a viewpoint.

We become obsessed with 'truth' when discussing statements, just as we become obsessed with 'freedom' when discussing conduct...Like freedom, truth is a bare minimum or an illusory ideal.

We do have freedom of speech, but if you say the wrong word, it looks like it makes headlines. So everybody has to be very careful.

It is a tragedy beyond the power of language to convey when what has been imposed on women by force becomes a standard of freedom for women: and all the women say it is so.