Quotes About Language

Vi que las frases salían de su boca como pompas de las que las palabras eran sólo el revestimiento externo que, al deshacerse en sonido, dejaban al descubierto un volumen etéreo: el significado.

Supongo que, cuando no se pueden decir las cosas, las miradas se cargan de palabras.

El "pero" es la palabra más puta que conozco -. "te quiero, pero..."; "podría ser, pero..."; "no es grave, pero...". ¿Se da cuenta? Una palabra de mierda que sirve para dinamitar lo que era,o lo que podría haber sido, pero no es.

Beware the writer who always encloses the word "reality" in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you.

God is a sound people make when they're too tired to think anymore.

God is a sound people make when they're too tired to think anymore.

Beware the writer who always encloses the word "reality" in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you.

Language makes a mighty loose net with which to go fishing for simple facts, when facts are infinite.

I like the name. Tukuhnikivats—in the language of the Utes "where the sun lingers.

In recording my impressions of the natural scene I have striven above all for accuracy, since I believe that there is a kind of poetry, even a kind of truth, in simple fact. But the desert is a vast world, an oceanic world, as deep in its way and complex and various as the sea. Language makes a mighty loose net with which to go fishing for simple facts, when facts are infinite.

Lady, you can't fuck a metaphor.

The word for woman is Gy (pronounced hard, as in Guy); it forms itself into Gy-ei for the plural, but the G becomes soft in the plural like Jy-ei. They have a proverb to the effect that this difference in pronunciation is symbolical, for that the female sex is soft in the concrete, but hard to deal with in the individual.

The pen is mightier than the sword! a

If at times thou canst not comprehend the language of my thoughts, at times also I hear sweet enigmas in that of thy emotions.

Homosexual,' generally used in scientific works is of course a bastard word. 'Homogenic' has been suggested, as being from two roots, both Greek, i.e., 'homos,' same, and 'genos,' sex.

In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.

The cliché has it that an unknown subject is a closed book, but Egypt was different. Egypt was an open book, with illustrations on every page, that no one knew how to read.

That's so," said Eliza. "Vacation ends next month. I start Latin this year. They say it's awful. You decline nouns. All _I_ can say is, who wouldn't?

Life's disappointments are harder to take when you don't know any swear words.

Speech finely framed delighteth the ears.

Isn't it interesting how the sounds are the same for an awful nightmare and great sex?

The ladybug's a beetle. It's shaped like a pea. Its color is a bright red With lots of spots to see. Although the name is ladybug Some ladybugs are men. So why don't we say "gentleman bug" Every now and then?

When money talks, no one checks the grammar.

A picture, it is said, is worth a thousand words, but cannot a few well-spoken words convey as many pictures?