Quotes About Language

Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation." —JALALUDDIN RUMI

The Devil for a joke Might carve his own initials on our desk, And yet we'd miss the point because he spoke An idiom too dated, Audenesque.

found himself marveling at how many different names there are in this world. All individual, most pronounceable. Think of that.

When I was young, my language wore coats and shirts and trousers, neckties, bespoke shoes. In my lifetime as a writer I have cast off layer after layer of clothing in pursuit of nudity.

Words themselves are all the ghosts we need.

Your words, your thoughts, your imagination: powerful tools. Remember that and use them wisely.

Life is too short to learn German

There is no meaning if meaning is not shared, and not because there would be an ultimate or first signification that all beings have in common, but because meaning is itself the sharing of Being.

In the beginning was the word, and it was spoken.

To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.

Your words are building blocks of which you construct your life and future.

Everybody uses mime and gesture in real life, though we don't realize it. It's very useful as a performance technique, though it can be boring to watch on its own.

Language grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences. 828

Typography is a minor technicality of civilized life.

Learn your language well and command it well, and you will have the first component to life.

Man's achievements rest upon the use of symbols.... we must consider ourselves as a symbolic, semantic class of life, and those who rule the symbols, rule us.

Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.

You have to be able to communicate in life and probably schools underemphasize that. If you can't talk to people or write, you're giving up your potential.

Nothing in life is fair. Fair is a dirty word and I'll thank you not to use that language around me.

Words have a longer life than deeds.

All euphemisms are dishonest, but many are designed to make life easier

So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.

As was his language so was his life.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.