Quotes About Language

I know ours is a world made by men for men, their dictatorship is so ancient it even extends to language.

Your words have the power of life and death. Choose them wisely.

Politics is the art of saying well that which may or may not be true.

So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other.

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.

La lengua, que es siempre y últimamente la lengua materna, no se aprende en Gramáticas y diccionarios, sino en el decir de la Gente

Yale philosopher Harry Frankfurt writes, "One of the salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted.

we Christians must show again that we are both people of the Word and people who believe in words. Words are never mere words for us

Beautiful feelings make bad literature. In which case, this precious state of prose is proof that I'm no devil after all. Ah, blessed be the man who coined this phrase! It is a treasure of the language. An author can get away with using it but once in his career. Sad to say. The first time, it's endearing. If you insist on using it a second or a third time, though, dear reader, hiding behind it like a shield, you can expect nothing but misery.

Virtue and vice are concepts invented by human beings, words for a morality which human beings arbitrarily devised.

The more naked a person's words are, the more comical, broken, and made-up they sound.

Love is words. If words were to disappear, then love would be gone as well from this world in the very same instant. It's a huge mistake to think that love can take shape in something other than language.

Don't try to be too clever. And when purposefully misspelling common words, proceed with caution.

Mom JIMMY What if the word yes meant no? MOM Go to sleep, you have school tomorrow JIMMY No MOM Quit playing games with me JIMMY Yes

AMBER I'll be black in a minute. Mike Huh?!? AMBER I meant back! Freaking autocorrect. As far as I know, I won't be black anytime soon. Lol!

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

The earth is buzzing with metaphor

Quelle douleur - chercher la parole perdue, Relever ces paupières douloureuses Et, la chaux dans le sang, rassembler pour les tribus étrangères L'herbe des nuits.

A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.

The primitive man experiences "soul," first in other men and then in himself, as a Numen, just as he knows numina of the outer world, and develops his impressions in mythological form. His words for these things are symbols, sounds, not descriptive of the indescribable but indicative of it for him who hath ears to hear.

was ihm auffällt macht er zu worten dazwischen aber ist mangel.

Non indagate le cose a partire dalle parole, ma indagate le parole a partire dalle cose