Quotes About Language

What traitors books can be! You think they're backing you up, and they turn on you. Others can use them, too, and there you are, lost in the middle of the moor, in a great welter of nouns and verbs and adjectives.

Well, what tongue does the wind talk? What nationality is a storm? What country do rains come from? What color is lightning? Where does thunder go when it dies?

If this goes on, all communication everywhere will be through text messages or computers, and direct speech between two people, without a machine, will be outlawed.)

The woman knew every language and every word in every language. She spoke with fire and alcohol and smoke.

Ne govorim o stvarima, gospodine. Govorim o zna?enju stvari." ? Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

There's a relationship between the great poems of the world and the great screenplays: they both deal in compact images.

La magia reside solamente en aquello que los libros dicen; en cómo cosen los harapos del universo para darnos una nueva vestidura.

Words are like leaves and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found

Metaphor is the medicine.

Words are like leaves and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.' Alexander Pope.

Afraid of the word "politics" (which eventually became a synonym for Communism

They were hopelessly caught in a mire of pretty words, which they seemed to believe themselves.

Sid: She laughed and said to her oppo, 'Oh dear, how plebian. Bill: What's 'plebian'? Hancock: Plebian! It's from the latin 'plebes', defined by Pliny as derivative from 'plebiscum'. Bill: Yeah, but what does it mean? Hancock: It means you're a scruffbag!

Il bambino impara semplicemente parlando e ascoltando.

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.

Writing in English is like throwing mud at a wall.

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

There is a weird power in a spoken word.

You perceive the force of a word. He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense... Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.

A diplomatic statement ... is a statement of which everything is true but the sentiment which seems to prompt it.

You perceive the force of a word. He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense. I don't say this by way of disparagement. It is better for mankind to be impressionable than reflective. Nothing humanely great—great, I mean, as affecting a whole mass of lives—has come from reflection.

There must be a wonderful soothing power in mere words since so many men have used them for self-communion. Being

His picturesque and filthy loquacity flowed like a troubled stream from a poisoned source.

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. I