Quotes About Language

Very helpful, I must say. Look at them in the eye and shout, and they understand every word..." (Mr. Warbeck in Sienna, talking about local Italians.)

I would never say snog. I would say osculate." She looks at me as if to say: why do you exist?

Assad: 'I have written it just down here.'He Pointed to a number of Arabic symbols that could just as well have meant it was going to snow in the Lofoten Islands in the morning.

Most often when I stammerThat's my brainCorrecting my grammer.

I think Lafayette wants to rap in French now. I have to go learn some French.Damn it, Lafayette.

Not every single way of saying the right thing is right.

Sometimes advises from others are more difficult to bear with than even slang.

I don't use big words to show off because it's ostentatious.

Do you think ladies' eyebrows can communicate as well?" she asked."No, they don't have sufficient thicketry, " he said with authority."Thicketry?""Yes, that is the official term.

I'm much more than a writer – I'm someone who puts different words together in an interesting way.

#Twitter: proudly promoting ghastly grammar and silly misspelling since 2006.

Boyfriend?"Her cheeks heated. "Yes.""Funny name.""What?" She frowned. "Ernest is a perfectly nice name.""Oh, I thought I heard you call him Ermine.

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

Real change comes when people are enabled to use their thinking and their energy in a new way, using a different system of thought, different language, and having fresh visions of the future.

Art as language....in the future there will only be art. This common language will carry the message of love.

If apple is the language of the future, then art must be the core.

I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi.

Vocabulary enables us to interpret and to express. If you have a limited vocabulary, you will also have a limited vision and a limited future.

I have long come to believe that, more than any other destruction, our word-recklessness is endangering the future of us all.

I don't see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty - and evaporating quickly.

You can tell a person's past, present and future by listening to the words they use.

The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.

Our biggest technology that we ever, ever invented was articulated language with built-out grammar. It is that that allows us to imagine things far in the future and things way back in the past.

As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did we come from, what happens next?' The ability to remember the past helps us plan the future.