Quotes About Language

People have mastered flattery to the point that it has become a new street language.

Silence does not mean remaining silent both in speech and on paper. You can keep your mouth shut while communicating thousands of words to the universe.

Sincere repentance is the only language that is easily understandable before our Creator.

The dictionary is the holy book of the geniuses. It's the only way that you can learn new word(s) daily.

The first step in becoming a philosopher is to become overly sensitive to words, including idioms.

The true definition of the word Aryan is not far from the ideologies of natural selection taught in Darwinism. The latter is idolized while the former is demonized by society, but they all speak the same language.

The truest definition of culture is that it contains all the human activities.

Those who wish to pray in the 'name of Jesus' should use the name Yeshua instead.

War between religions and science will never end; because they speak difference languages. There is a lack of communication between them.

You can see the beauty in things only after learning the meaning of the word 'beautiful'.

Creation takes place through words, a series of 'And God Saids' bringing each new stage of life into being. Language is God's divine power made manifest in the world.

They WERE walking alongside the road, they WERE hit by a car, and now they ARE dead. It doesn't work. Are is present tense. Dead is -- well, dead is past, isn't it? Present tense modifying past; being modifying non-being. Language, in this instance" -- and here Miriam makes a garbled noise in her throat-- "fails.

Sign is a live, contemporaneous, visual-gestural language and consists of hand shapes, hand positioning, facial expressions, and body movements. Simply put, it is for me the most beautiful, immediate, and expressive of languages, because it incorporates the entire human body.

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Words were medicine; they were magic and invisible. They came from nothing into sound and meaning. They were beyond price; they could neither be bought nor sold.

She was not listening at the level of language but beneath it, in the deep recesses of the imagination.

And the simple act of listening is crucial to the concept of language, more crucial even than reading and writing, and language in turn is crucial to human society.

I do not speak Kiowa, and I never understood her prayers, but there was something inherently sad in the sound, some merest hesitation upon the syllables of sorrow.

A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things. By means of words can a man deal with the world on equal terms. And the word is sacred. A man's name is his own; he can keep it or give it away as he likes.

I could tell of the splintered sun. I could Articulate the night sky, had I words.

Metaphors that have the community's seal of approval roll off the tongue so readily that, by any yardstick, they are invariably thick on the ground.

A cynic once defined a metaphor as 'a simile with the words of comparison left out'.

Metaphors are so prevalent that if one were to specifically look out for them it would spoil completely one's reading and listening, and thus detract from the author's purpose.

The word 'metaphor' itself can be used in a non-literal way.