Quotes About Language

Oddly, I feel more protected when I write in Italian, even though I'm also more exposed.

The language of the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection of the laws did not change between 1896 and 1954, and it would be very hard to say that the obvious facts on which 'Plessy' was based had changed.

I speak Tamil well and I am proud to be living as a Tamil. but above it all, I am very proud Indian!

I'm a proud Gujarati and it makes me very happy that Gujarati movies are coming up with great content.

Music has no language barriers and this has been proved right several times by the Chennai audience.

English, once accepted as an international language, is no more secure than French has proved to be as the one and only accepted language of diplomacy or as Latin has proved to be as the international language of science.

I have always believed that cinema has no language and 'Dead End' has proved it so.

I'd like to provide an SAT word in everything I do.

But words can conquer words.

Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore

This is what destroys the fine cities and homes of mortals: words spoken too well.

It's a totally ridiculous, completely unsexy word. If you use it during sex, trying to be politically correct-- Darling, could you stroke my vagina?-- you kill the act right there. I'm worried about vaginas, what we call them and don't call them.

In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.

Literature is the right use of language irrespective of the subject or reason of utterance.

He delighted in writing, in the joinery and embellishment of his sentences, in the consciousness of high rare virtue when every word had been used in its purest and most precise sense, in the kitten games of syntax and rhetoric. Words could do anything except generate their own meaning.

As there was no form of government common to the peoples thus segregated, nor tie of language, history, habit or belief, they were called a Republic.

To the American, English writers are like prim spinsters fidgeting with the china, punctilious about good taste, and inwardly full of thwarted, tepid and perverse passions. We see the Americans as gushing adolescents, repetitive and slangy, rather nasty sometimes in their zest for violence and bad language.

The European powers independently decided that they did not want that profitless piece of territory; that the one thing less desirable than seeing a neighbor established there, was the trouble of taking it themselves. Accordingly, by general consent, it was ruled off the maps and its immunity guaranteed. As there was no form of government common to the peoples thus segregated, nor tie of language, history, habit or belief, they were called a Republic.

What is a 'canty day,' Dennis?" "I've never troubled to ask. Something like Hogmanay, I expect." "What is that?" "People being sick on the pavement in Glasgow." "Oh.

More effective communication occurs when two or more individuals are homophilous.III When they share common meanings, a mutual subcultural language, and are alike in personal and social characteristics, the communication of new ideas is likely to have greater effects in terms of knowledge gain, attitude formation and change, and overt behavior change.

La máquina habla a la máquina antes de hablar al hombre.

She knew few words and believed in none.

Talk English to me, Tommy. Parlez francais avec moi, Nicole. But the meanings are different-- in French you can be heroic and gallant with dignity, and you know it. But in English you can't be heroic and gallant without being a little absurd, and you know that too.

Poetry is dying first. It'll be absorbed into prose sooner or later.