Quotes About Language

I'm thinking of switching banks, and my friend said, 'Well, what's wrong with Citibank?' Well, they can't spell 'city.' I hope their math is better than their English is.

I hope America does not accept the kind of language that Donald Trump is using to describe our fellow Americans.

Don't forget, God uses words to create the world. Words! Words are only hope.

I mean, what is music anyway? It's a form of communication - at least for me it is. And that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.

After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference.

My cat speaks sign language with her tail.

Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself.

In very ancient times of human evolution upon earth, humanity's revelation in word and sound was not differentiated in song and speech, but they were one.

[Heraclitus' language] dispenses with lightness and artificial decoration, foremost out of disgust for humanity and out of [his own] defiant feeling.

Speech is the mark of humanity. It is the normal terminus of thought.

Words are humanity's greatest natural resource, but most of us have trouble figuring out how to put them together. Words aren't cheap. They are very precious.

Language is one of the thin walls humanity has built up over centuries against its own bestial and destructive impulses.

Much of the academy on the humanities side, English departments in particular, no longer write what can pass for normal English.

The goal of 'Data Detectives' is to spark the imagination of students around the globe by making them think about new technologies that will impact humanity in ways similar to language and art.

If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren't people from Holland called Holes?

If a man says something in the woods and there are no women there, is he still wrong?

I would imagine that if you could understand Morse code, a tap dancer would drive you crazy.

No means yes in grasshopper language.

Why isn't the number 11 pronounced onety one?

Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way.

Whose cruel idea was it for the word "lisp" to have an "s" in it?

Why isn't the word "phonetically" spelled with an "f"?

Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist but a person who drives a racing car not called a racist?

Why are they called buildings when they're already finished? Shouldn't they be called builts?