Quotes About Language

We must never lose the language of justice, for it reminds us of what is at stake and of the importance of keeping justice itself alive in how we fight.

Il parle couramment la vérité, mais personne ne le comprend car il use d'une langue morte.

The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.

There must be a wound inside the words that communicates.

Maybe speech has been an evolutionary mistake; maybe everybody would get along better if we couldn't talk to each other.

We are the ink that gives the white page a meaning.

Erotic play discloses a nameless world which is revealed by the nocturnal language of lovers. Such language is not written down. It is whispered into the ear at night in a hoarse voice. At dawn it is forgotten.

T'as parlé le berli du berlu à la corbelle du corbeau ?

Accent is the soul of language it gives to it both feeling and truth.

In the next decade we may see more young people who know just the right emoji for a situation—but not the right facial expression.

I could not think without writing.

to avoid the difficulties of teleological language, adaptation must be described as an equilibrium between the action of the organism on the environment and vice versa.

Le nom d'amant peut-être offense son courage; Mais il en a les yeux, s'il n'en a le langage.

Semicolon, you dolt!

there is no word in Hebrew for "goddess," so the word cannot appear in the Old Testament.

Les mots visibles sont comme des points de repère dans l'étendu. La signification de chacun d'eux est à la fois ponctuelle et tourbillonante; le sens nait de leur rapprochement comme l'éclair du choc électrique des nuages.

le langage l'engage.

You are the most sleepiest man I ever seed.

But words is like th spots on dice: no matter how y fumbles em, there's times when they jes wont come.

Don't listen to the words— they're only little shapes for what you're saying, they're only cups if you're thirsty, you aren't thirsty.

You know, Daddy, it isn't the work that is going to be hard in college. It's the play. Half the time I don't know what the girls are talking about; their jokes seem to relate to a past that everyone but me has shared. I'm a foreigner in the world and I don't understand the language.

Qué graciosos son los hombres! Cuando quieren hacernos un cumplido dicen que tenemos una mentalidad masculina.

I'm a foreigner in the world and I don't understand the language. It's a miserable feeling. I've had it all my life. At the high school the girls would stand in groups and just look at me. I was queer and different and everybody knew it.

The Gaulish language ended up contributing very little to the vocabulary of modern French. Only about a hundred Gaulish words survived the centuries, mostly rural and agricultural terms such as bouleau (birch), sapin (fir), lotte (monkfish), mouton (sheep), charrue (plow), sillon (furrow), lande (moor) and boue (mud)—that's eight percent of the total. However, Gaulish is still relatively well-known, partly because it left many place and family names in northern France.