Quotes About Language

American English was different from the language she'd learned at Maple Leaf International in Dhaka, but she was lucky because George corrected her and kept her from making embarrassing mistakes.

Amina knew she was a different person in Bangla than she was English; she noticed the change every time she switched languages on the phone. She was older in English, and also less fastidious; she was the parent to her parents.

We make versions, and true versions make worlds.

Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor their songs.

if you talk to a man in a second language , your talking to his brain ,if you talk to him in his mother language you're talking to his heart -

Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and apsirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry or savour their songs. I again realized that we were not different people with separate languages; we were one people, with different tongues.

n Mens het letterkunde in jou lewe nodig, want daarsonder gaan jy agteruit.

I remember Mac retorting that hundreds of years ago there was a Hindi word for a craft that flew in the air, long before the airplane was invented, but that did not mean that airplanes existed in ancient India.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart

In those days, I believed that proficiency in English and success in business were the direct result of high academic achievements.

In my language there is a saying: "Ndiwelimilambo enamagama" (I have crossed famous rivers). It means that one has traveled a great distance, that one has had wide experience and gained some wisdom from it.

Mas o "Cadelão" não é negro? O negro boçal? Não diria "violada". É uma palavra que. Entende? Não usaria a palavra "violada"! maria

Sempre fui um autor correndo atrás da metáfora, das mais desvairadas metáforas. O adjetivo é minha tara estilística.

Whoever had come up with the chant "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me" had been an idiot.

You can call a sunset by a filthy name, but you do not spoil its beauty, monsieur.

The spiritual man speaks to the natural man through the language of desire.

El habla es una imagen de la mente y la mente es una imagen de Dios. - Hermética, traducción W. Scott.

To think is to speak low, to speak is to think aloud.

Language as culture is the collective memory bank of a people's experience in history.

It is rather that I believe in the reality of what's being named more than in the name itself.

Berlin of 1884 was effected through the sword and the bullet. But the night of the sword and the bullet was followed by the morning of the chalk and the blackboard. The physical violence of the battlefield was followed by the psychological violence of the classroom. But where the former was visibly brutal, the latter was visibly gentle … The bullet was the means of physical subjugation. Language was the means of the spiritual subjugation.

Words are the food, body, mirror, and sound of thought. Do you now see the danger of words that want to come out but are unable to do so?

the more the musicians played the more it struck me that Irish music was a language of its own, accommodating expression of ecstasy and rapture and lightness and fun as well as sadness and darkness and loss, and that in its rhythms and repetitions was the trace history of humanity thereabouts, going round and round.

Aló, ¿con la Casa de la Cultura? - Sí conchetumadre.