Quotes About Language

losing a friend is like losing a language, and I miss the one we spoke together.

the importance of words as "the signs of our thoughts and feelings in all their minutest shades and variations.

But why would it matter? We aren't ... or...uh...weren't ..." Which is it, Jess? "Aren't" or "weren't"? Present or past tense? Now or then? "We haven't been talking to each other." Past imperfect tense. How appropriate.

Words can be used as a bomb or balm.

Parentheses speak More than we dare say out loud Why, oh, why is that?)

words can serve as a bomb or a balm..." -Harmony

As Virginia Woolf testified in On Being Ill, "English, which can express the thoughts of Hamlet and the tragedy of Lear, has no words for the shiver and the headache. . . . The merest schoolgirl, when she falls in love, has Shakespeare or Keats to speak her mind for her; but let a sufferer try to describe a pain in his head to a doctor and language at once runs dry.

No writer can be the 'Master of the Words' without loving them! Loving is the way for Mastering! No Love, no Master!

Speak the language of high intelligence, and thus you speak the language of God.

There is a great beauty in every language and there is a great language in every beauty! Be silent and listen to them!

To speak with the shadow, you must know the language of the darkness!

Words derive their power from the original word.

Every creature is a word of God.

megérthetem, hogyan m?ködik az olvasás, és miért van az, hogy ugyanazok a szavak valakit meghatnak, másvalakit hidegen hagynak, megint mást pedig egyenesen zavarnak

Never underestimate the value of knowing another's language. It can be far more powerful than swords and arrows.

Our voices sound kinder in the skin of our own language.

All I need to understand is the unwritten law of warriors," he said firmly. "And women and children are never sent to do our work without our protection." He pointed to the trees, emphatically. "That's the language I share with them.

They have a quick verbal exchange but only get to cover the alphabet from A to F, outdoing each other with the most choice of words.

I like looking at his face when he speaks. Sometimes he spit, actually he spits all the time, but I think that's passionate. He loves words and he rolls them around in his mouth like a luscious plum, slobbering on the sides, and then he'll use his hands, touching his mouth as if he's taking the words out throwing them to us.

I only know one word. It means friend. I said it in her ear 'Sora. Sora. Sora.'" "And who taught you this Charynite word for friend?" "Phaedra of Alonso did. She said it was the prettiest word in Charyn." And Lucien ached to hear those words.

The Negro on saxophone blew out a language older than English and the glasses on the tables trembled

One of the perils of a classical education, he often reflected, was a predilection for vocabulary of an obfuscating nature.

Those who have been persuaded to think well of my design, will require that it should fix our language, and put a stop to those alterations which time and chance have hitherto been suffered to make in it without opposition. With this consequence I will confess that I flattered myself for a while; but now begin to fear that I have indulged expectation which neither reason nor experience can justify.

The Old English names began to die out: out went Ethelbert, Aelfric, Athelstan, Dunstan, Wulfstan, Wulfric; in came Richard, Robert, Simon, Stephen, John, and most popular and sycophantic (or was it politic?) of all, William.