Quotes About Language

Lovers meander in prose and rhyme, trying to say- for the thousandth time- what's easier done than said.

Because you could not translate the word apartheid into the more universal language of English, the wrong connotation was given to it.

The idea of an Afrikaner people as a cultural entity and religious group with a special language will be retained in South Africa as long as civilisation stands.

Words have a longer life than deeds.

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

El idiota suele ser buen lector, pero generalmente, de malos libros. No lee de izquierda a derecha, como los occidentales, ni de derecha a izquierda, como los orientales. Se las ha arreglado para leer de izquierda a izquierda

There is nothing like desire for preventing the things one says from bearing any resemblance to what one has in one's mind.

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

While in the case of his iron money, as I have explained, Lycurgus arranged for heavy weight to be matched by low value, he did the opposite for the currency of speech. Here he developed the technique of expressing a wide range of ideas in just a few, spare words.

It was a pleasure merely to hear the sound of her voice, with which, like an instrument of many strings, she could pass from one language to another; so that there were few of the barbarian nations that she answered by an interpreter.

In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.

This variable, how a parent responds to a child's vocalizations—right in the moment—seems to be the most powerful mechanism pulling a child from babble to fluent speech.

According to an extensive study comparing identical twins to fraternal twins, headed by University of New Mexico's Dr. Philip Dale, only 25% of language acquisition is due to genetic factors.

she'd say there must be something in Leviticus against mixing so many metaphors.

Tanpa mempelajari bahasa sendiri pun orang takkan mengenal bangsanya sendiri

setiap pejuang bisa kalah dan terus-menerus kalah tanpa kemenangan, dan kekalahan itulah gurunya yang terlalu mahal dibayarnya. Tetapi biarpun kalah, selama seseorang itu bisa dinamai pejuang dia tidak akan menyerah. Bahasa Indonesia cukup kaya untuk membedakan kalah daripada menyerah (Prahara Budaya, h. 187)

Kau Pribumi terpelajar! Kalau mereka itu, Pribumi itu, tidak terpelajar, kau harus bikin mereka jadi terpelajar. Kau harus, harus, harus, harus bicara pada mereka , dengan bahasa yang mereka tahu

Kowé kira, kalo sudah pake pakean Eropa, bersama orang Eropa, bisa sedikit bicara Belanda lantas jadi Eropa? Tetap monyet!

Painting is literature in colors. Literature is painting in language.

Sebagai pengarang saya masih lebih percaya kepada kekuatan kata daripada kekuatan peluru yang gaungnya hanya akan berlangsung sekian bagian dari menit, bahkan detik.

Mereka bertengkar ramai dalam bahasa yang bagiku sama asingnya dengan bahasa nasib manusia.

I can see that an insufficent, or perhaps even defective, socialization process has led you to believe that four-letter words add power to languauge

He could hardly read or write but his heart spoke the language of the good

All really good writers use fragments.