Quotes About Language

Reason" in language - oh, what an old deceptive female she is! I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar.

Oh, God, if I were sure I were to die tonight I would repent at once. It is the commonest prayer in all languages.

In this day when God is often referred to as 'It' or 'She' or 'Goddess' for the sake of leveling, I must say I can't recall Satan ever being referred to as 'She.'

Faith is the physical description of God. That's what He is. It's the only word we have in our language to accurately describe His physical form.

I thought of God as being able to talk big and write *very* small.

Children pick up words as pigeons peas And utter them again as God shall please.

Speaking in tongues is as normal to me as 'Pass the salt' It's a secret, direct prayer language to God.

In the beginning there was the Word. Then we broke it.

If you want nothing to do with god then why do you say his name all the time

If you say something as if it were, that isn't, is it considered a lie, or speaking it into existence?

Styles come and go. Good design is a language, not a style.

Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.

Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate.

Good communication is the bridge between confusion and clarity.

Good writing ... involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the tight-fitting uniform of language, making them visible and clear.

The governor of Texas, who, when asked if the Bible should also be taught in Spanish, replied that 'if English was good enough for Jesus, then it's good enough for me.

The Good Book - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined.

My English is not very good-looking.

Careful with fire is good advice we know. Careful with words is ten times doubly so.

Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.

This sign I give you: every people speaks its tongue of good and evil, which the neighbor does not understand. It has invented its own language of customs and rights.

Good words cool more than cold water.

I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.

Good words are worth much, and cost little.