Quotes About Language

The truth is what we say it is...prove to me this desk is not a cow!

No I didn't spell that wrong it's just the Canadian version

My partner and I were going to renew our vowels, but the consonants revolted.

What happened when the Verb asked the noun to conjugate? She said "no-no!", forgot the "o" and decided to become a nun!

Your tongue is moving my King but the words are not making their way to my ears

The na at the end of banana annoys me as much as it would you if it were bananana.

I never knew, apes talk. Apparently, you do.

MY FRIEND: SO DO YOU TAKE A FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASS?ME: SURE DO HAVE BEEN FOR THE LAST 13 YEARS.MY FRIEND: COOL WHAT LANGUAGE?ME: MATH.

How hard can writing be? After all, most of the words are going to be 'and, ' 'the, ' and 'I, ' and 'it, ' and so on, and there's a huge number to choose from, so a lot of the work has been done for you.

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

Literature speaks the language of the imagination, and the study of literature is supposed to train and improve the imagination.

Two thousand years ago, five thousand, they didn't have a word for imagination, and faith was the best they could come up with for a pretty solemn bunch of followers.

The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form.

Wordsmiths who serve established power...castrate the public imagination by subjecting language to a complexity which renders it private. Elitism is always their aim.

It is good to know the truth but it is better to speak of palm trees.

On stage, you're not limited at all because you're free in language: language is the source of the imagination. You can travel farther in language than you can in any film.

What we speak becomes the house we live in.

Dance is the hidden langauge of the soul, of the body.

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

Good communication does not mean that you have to speak in perfectly formed sentences and paragraphs. It isn't about slickness. Simple and clear go a long way.

Being that can be understood is language.

Tears are words that need to be written.

I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralyzed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something - a great deal - to do with how we live our lives.

Since I'm inarticulate, I express myself with images.