Quotes About Language

If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without ascending it, the work would have been permitted.

I'm not suggesting that you don't master German. Most of the time you master it surprisingly well and if once in a while you don't, it bows before you of its own accord, and this is particularly pleasing, for this is something a German doesn't dare to expect from his language, he doesn't dare to write so personally.

Milena lütfen bana yard?m edin! Söyleyebildiklerimden daha da fazlas?n? anlamaya çal???n.

If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without ascending it, the work would have been permitted. (Wenn es möglich gewesen wäre, den Turm von Babel zu erbauern ohne ihn zu erklettern, es wäre erlaubt worden.)

Language can be used only very obliquely of things outside the physical world, not even metaphorically, since all it knows to do—according to the nature of the physical world—is to treat of ownership and its relations.

Language is but a poor translation.

Tüm insani hatalar sab?rs?zl?ktan, amaçla ilgili olan?n zamans?z kesintiye uÄŸrat?lmas?ndan ve söz sorunun sözde bir çitle çevrilmesinden doÄŸar.

Auch ich habe Dich sicher oft mit Worten gekränkt, aber dann wußte ich es immer, es schmerzte mich, aber ich konnte mich nicht beherrschen, das Wort nicht zurückhalten, aber ich bereute es schon, während ich es sagte.

Yaz? deÄŸiÅŸmez ve görüÅŸler çoÄŸu zaman bu konudaki çaresizliÄŸin ifadesidir.

La palabra humana distorsiona mi vieja verdad de mono, que a mí mismo se me escapa; pero, eso sí, mi palabra apuntará en dirección a esa verdad.

Wszystko, co pan mówi, jest nudne i niezrozumiaÅ'e, a wskutek tego wcale nie jest bardziej prawdziwe.

18. Gdyby mo?na by?o wznie?? wie?? Babel nie wspinaj?c si? na ni?, budowa by?aby dozwolona.

If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.

New words can spread like wildfire thanks to social media - you only have to look at 'mansplaining' and 'milkshake duck' to see language evolution at work - so why not old ones too?

I like to say I sit alone in my room, and I fight the language. I am wildly obsessive. I can't let something go if I think it's wrong.

Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhythms of the English language and the mannerisms of the English speech seems to work effortlessly with William Shakespeare, but when Americans do it, something seems stuck.

I love American English, not least because a lot of it was ours to begin with. Indeed, many Americanisms can be found in the works of William Shakespeare.

Again like Williams, with the emphasis now regrettable, when a man makes a poem, makes it mind you, he takes the words as he finds them lying interrelated about him.

The older I got, the more willing I was to go into the Southern vernacular, because some of it's funny.

I don't speak English, so I'll just have to win the trust and confidence of the fans with my performance on the field.

I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough away from the beginning so that I can call it the end, and it ends.

I consider myself a pretty good conversationalist, but you wind up being downgraded to idiot status when you don't speak the language!

What makes me write is the rhythm of the world around me - the rhythms of the language, of course, but also of the land, the wind, the sky, other lives. Before the words comes the rhythm - that seems to me to be of the essence.