Quotes About Language

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

It's no coincidence that good words make us feel good and that hurtful or angry words make us feel bad. There is a 100 percent correlation between the words we choose and how we feel.

We evolved the ability to communicate disappointment to teach those around us good manners

The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.

So far as good writing goes, the use of the exclamation mark is a sign of failure. It is the literary equivalent of a man holding up a card reading LAUGHTER to a studio audience.

Punctuation has its own philosophy, just as style does, although not as language does. Style is a good understanding of language, punctuation is a good understanding of style.

Good writing is like a windowpane.

Good intentions are invariably ungrammatical.

I coined a word the other day, but I forgot what it was. It was a good one, it came to me in a dream.

I majored in Chinese Studies. I'm probably the only director of chicken Indian zombie movies who can speak pretty good Mandarin.

In good writing, words become one with things.

Good writers are visible just behind their words.

In its happiest efforts, translation is but approximation, and its efforts are not often happy. A translation may be good as translation, but it cannot be an adequate reproduction of the original.

One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.

Tongue; well that's a wery good thing when it an't a woman.

A good many of the special words of business seem designed more to express the user's dreams than to express a precise meaning.

Good words quench more then a bucket of water.

I remember reading once that some fellows use language to conceal thought; but it's been my experience that a good many more use it instead of thought.

Definitions would be good things if we did not use words to make them.

My uncle is from Argentina, so I grew up hearing Spanish. My Spanish isn't very good, but my pronunciation isn't terrible.

I'm not a very good communicator, so maybe that's why I write about talking.

Never too late to learn a language. And the good literature to come with it.

I think people are tired of being slammed with foul language and sexual content that really has nothing to do with (telling a good story).

It is possibly worth mentioning at this point that Mr. Young thought that paparazzi was a kind of Italian linoleum.