Quotes About Language

Freedom requires that you discover your own inner language - your own life rules - your own vision.

Grammar.The difference between knowing your sh.. and knowing you're sh...

Boy: Why can't tampons talk? Girl: Because they're stuck up bi...es.

If you're looking for sympathy you'll find it between sh.. and syphilis in the dictionary.

People who practice freedom of expression are terrorizing our grammatical way of life.

Ever wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabetsoup?

After all these years, its still embarrassing for me to play on the American golf tour. Like the time I asked my caddie for a sand wedge and he came back ten minutes later with a ham on rye.

If my mom reads that I'm grammatically incorrect, I'll have hell to pay.

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is the language I don't understand.

I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'

The longest word in the english language is the one that follows the phrase, 'And now a word from our sponsor'.

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.

My friend has a baby, I am recording all the noises he makes so I can later ask him what he meant.

Black men don't like to be called 'boys ' but women accept being called 'girls.'

Today, the official national language is Italian. This is based on the dialect of Florence, although people from each region have their own accents and speak Italian in a slightly different way. In some northwest border regions near France the people may speak French; and German is spoken in the far north. Sardinia has its own language.

There's so much to be grateful for, words are poor things.

If I say a word that is angry, he explained, then I should never be surprised by the harm. And if I say something good, then it is like watching my own garden grow, and that is the greatest pleasure ever.

That's what Aisha and I are doing. We're planting a garden with our words. Our future. Everything careful and chosen well so the shoots come up strong and straight.

Somebody had written: MEN, which was crossed out and replaced with LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR A PENIS. Under that, the word WOMEN had also been crossed out and replaced with VAGINAL AMERICANS.

no podemos seguir ignorando el hecho de que seguir usando una y otra vez palabras llenas de negatividad no sólo no nos va a ayudar a resolver los problemas que esas mismas palabras describen, sino que, muy al contrario, lo va a hacer aún mucho más difícil. No estoy hablando de desterrar las palabras negativas de nuestro vocabulario, sino de procurar modular los vocablos que utilizamos.

El lenguaje no solo describe la realidad, sino que además es capaz de crearla. Nuestra forma de hablarnos a nosotros mismos afecta tremendamente a nuestra manera de relacionarnos con el mundo.

Recordemos que, en apariencia, las palabras son simples signos que se corresponden con unos sonidos, pero que en realidad son conexiones directas a mundos emocionales personales, íntimos e intransferibles

A mis traductores, que han tenido la paciencia y el arte de reconstruir el habla y los silencios de mis montevideanos en más de veinte lenguas. (La borra del café)

Hablo a solas porque tengo miedo de olvidarme de cómo se habla.