Quotes About Language

One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they'll be proving with mathematical precision that twice two is seven.

Typographic man can express but is helpless to read the configurations of print technology.

I am Become Text Message. Destroyer Of Words.

Mom always taught me not to use the word hate. As if it were profanity.

People tend to try to find something to talk about Zuma. My surname is very nice and simple. Very simple, so they like pronouncing it all the time. So what's the problem?

The photograph is an undeniably powerful medium. Free from the constraints of language, and harnessing the unique qualities of a single moment frozen in time.

Language changes and moves in a different direction evolving all the time. Where a lot of people see deterioration, I see expressive development

The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs.

Language in art remains a highly ambiguous transaction, a quicksand, a trampoline, a frozen pool which might give way under you ... at any time.

Hermione uses all these big long tongue twister words. I don't know what she's going on about half the time!

Photography speaks a universal language that does not need translation, and with an immediacy that the written word lacks. It freezes a moment in time, leaving an indelible image.

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action.

Type is saying things to us all the time. Typefaces express a mood, an atmosphere. They give words a certain coloring.

I seek a form of language which will express my ideas for our time.

In previous armies, soldiers used their time to clean their weapons and stock up on ammunition. Our weapons are words, and we may need our arsenal at any moment.

Your lexicon is not entitled to slurs; it's time to retire them.

Rocks are records of events that took place at the time they formed. They are books. They have a different vocabulary, a different alphabet, but you learn how to read them.

The secret wish of poetry is to stop time.

If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.

In Hawaii they say, "aloha." That's a nice one, It means both "hello" and "good-bye" Which just goes to show, if you spend enough time in the sun you don't know whether you're coming or going.

We are at a time in our country's history that inclusive language is better than exclusive language.

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.

Words are most malignant, the most treacherous possession of mankind. They are saturated with the sorrows of all time.

I don't speak French, but I took it for five years growing up. So, if I were in a situation where I had to be, like, 'Excuse me, pineapple dog house red, what time is it library?' - no problem.