Quotes About Language

Acronyms are hard enough to remember on their own, but when letters aren't acronyms they become even more confusing. For example, neither RT nor ARM is an acronym.

Purple prose attracts attention more than converts.

The word 'fascism' has been used too often in political discourse, and almost always imprecisely. It's a bit like the boy who cried wolf. You warn about wolves so much that no one takes you seriously when a real one actually shows up.

UGH. Boys. They're like French class--no matter how much I study, I'll never be fluent in the language.

That day he was looking at one that didn't seem to be written in their language. It was filled with symbols and drawings of trolls. She longed to know what her father was studying, but didn't ask.

What comes out of your mouth comes into your life, so choose your words wisely.

Watch your words. And everyone else's.

Our perception of reality is also greatly influenced by our words. Words bring our thoughts and beliefs to life and help anchor them into our "realities" through repetition.

Words bring our thoughts and beliefs to life and help anchor them into our "realities" through repetition.

What comes out of your mouth comes in to your life.

L]anguage cannot match music's subtlety and preciseness of expression.

Words will do that. We are a naming species, and what we call things influences the way we think about them and the experiments we deem worthy of doing.

Bethyl Ann has vomited words like she ate the dictionary.

Connor told me Dad and Aunt Myka are going to shag tonight.Great-grandma,what´s shag mean?

Please don't call me darling. Or honey, or sugar." The man lifted his hands. "Sor-ree," he said. "Sweetheart." Haley

Her brain's response was, Oh, goody! What came out of her mouth was, "Gunh?

Why were all the idioms about being strong male-related?

His sentences didn't seem to have any verbs, which was par for a politician. All nouns, no action.

He sighed and smiled and touched my nose. 'Words! You funny thing! Words! Verbigation! You know you will spoil everything if you have to verbalize about it. Words never work properly. Life is difficult, subtle, complex. Life, as Lawrence might say, is a 'winged gift'. Words are always inadequate to express the complexity of a situation.

But words are more powerful than anything.

Voice, according to Miss Wilcox, is not just the sound that comes from your throat but the feeling that comes from your words

Voice is not just the sound that comes from your throat, but the feelings that come from your words.

Dad" I pleaded, "this is so [cuss word you never, ever say in front of your mother] ridiculous.

If I were stepping down from the bus at the rich end of town instead of the trailer park, I wouldn't have to watch every word I said to make sure it wasn't slang for an orgasm.