Quotes About Language

I am Become Text Message. Destroyer Of Words.

The Devil fights from behind barricades of linguistic complexity, but the war of words will be won by those armed only with simplistic truths

The mother tongue of politicians is that of ancient Babylon: a language designed to severely limit discourse within a tower of praise to elitism, a language carried on breath's reeking of the fecal matter from their paymasters

God created reality using language. The Devil is destroying reality by perverting language

Unfettered political correctness is leading us into the singularity of stupidity

Reality is symbolic. We build it using only the 26 symbols of the alphabet alongside images that speak to us on a linguistic level built from the 26 symbols of the alphabet.

We become the way we speak.

She was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a magical powder or potion that could be combined with other words to create powerful spells.

It is not possible to translate a language that does not exist.

One is not born English without knowing how to converse easily about the weather.

Only women are ever called persnickety," Mary Alice said. "Men get to be 'detail oriented.

Yo no he dicho eso. Tiene usted el don de sacar el peor significado posible de mis palabras. Nicholas Brisbane

Scabbard?" I guessed. "Penis warmer," she told me.

Funny the only two times we use the phrase "seeing someone" are when we are referring to being in a a relationship or getting psychological help.

My subconscious speaks in a foreign language.

Because words were hills and valleys you traveled, so lovely sometimes that they hurt your eyes.

Accents are funny in that they have this odd draw for us, yet we forget we have one, too. No one is without an accent, but the one you've got seems like oatmeal to their caviar.

I ignore the message from Jenna, who wants to talk about Kayla and what a bitch she is. I think she actually said "witch" in the voicemail, but if that's what she means, I don't see what a difference the vocabulary makes

Words were hills and valleys you traveled, so lovely sometimes that they hurt your eyes.

We had a humiliating and lengthy wait at a DONT WALK sign with not a car in sight for miles. Dad was a press about jaywalking. Or maybe he just like to stare down what he'd testily called the "grammatical error sanctioned by the state." There is, of course, no apostrophe in the DONT WALK sign.

You gotta love an old-fashioned word like "quarrelsome." Today she'd just be a bitch.

My mouth is not talking, my fingers are!

… this is my first language." {on Writing}

On a basic level- everything we say- essentially anything that comes out of our mouths is a rationalisation in some form or another