Quotes About Language

I realized that my mother had not taught us the tribal language because she knew her children would not be strong enough to carry the responsibility of being the last fluent speakers. She protected us from that spiritual burden. She protected us from that loneliness.

How can we imagine a new language when the language of the enemy keeps our dismembered tongues tied to his belt?

He sang 'Stairway to Heaven' in four different languages but never knew where that staircase stood.

She'd teach him nineteen different ways to spell matriarchy.

My profanity has an aesthetic.

Political Correctness has forced racists to become poets.

I draw because words are too limited. If you speak and write in English, or Spanish, or Chinese, or any other language, then only a certain percentage of human beings will get your meaning. But when you draw a picture, everybody can understand it.

If you speak and write in English, or Spanish, or Chinese, or any other language, then only a certain percentage of human beings will get your meaning. But when you draw a picture everybody can understand it.

Someone else has to be disseminating it. (Mark) Dis-a what? (Nick) Disseminating. It means distributing it. (Mark) Then why didn't you say that? (Nick) Remind me to get him a word-of-the-day calendar. (Mark)

Why do I constantly feel as if all of you are speaking a foreign language? What is 'grabbing a burger at the Hard Rock' supposed to mean? (Julian) The Hard Rock Café is a restaurant. (Grace) You eat at a place that advertises its food is hard as a rock? (Julian)

Stop your bitching, Nick. You should try being an immortal demon who's lived since the dawn of time having to sit through this crap when English is not my native tongue, and if you think you're fluent in it, buddy, I actually know what a gerund is.

And in your world, Captain Scary, that would mean? (Fang) You hit him three times and then you stop. It's in English. Hell, it's in –your- English. You were born then! (Thorn) That was my third hit. (Fang) I have a tumor. I know I have a tumor. I just wish I were mortal so that it could kill me. (Thorn)

Are you two having some sort of strange human thing that you can't follow what I'm saying? (Simi)

But what they called him isn't fit for mixed company and doesn't bear repeating. Stupid fuckheads. (Hauk)

Verbal blows cut to the soul and ate at the heart for eternity.

Is my andarion rusty or did he just call us the ass of a dung beetle

In case you haven't noticed, there's not a plethora of engineers here. (Devyn) Plethora? What kind of girl word is that? (Sway)

His scowl returned. Why, if they're supposed to be Greek, are all of them speaking with an English accent? She laughed. Didn't you know that British is, like, the universal 'foreign' language in Hollywood? They use it in any movie where they want to have a foreign feel to it, regardless of where it's set

Menyara's Creole accent was as thick as his mother's jar of refrigerated roux, and Nick loved the sound of it. He wasn't quite as pleased with his own. No matter how hard he tried to hide his accent, it always came out in certain words like praline, etouffee, pecan, and any time he lost his temper. You could easily tell how mad he was by how Cajun he sounded. And if he started spewing all Cajun words, duck.

Is. English. Not. Your. Native. Language? Grim spoke each word separately, and strung each syllable out. Nick hated it when he did that. Oh, how silly of me, Grim continued. I forgot Stupid is your native tongue.

Grammar is the greatest joy in life, don't you find?

If you fall into water, you may still be saved. But if you fall down in literary matters, there is no life left for you.

Mozart's music is the mysterious language of a distant spiritual kingdom, whose marvelous accents echo in our inner being and arouse a higher, intensive life.

Language is the memory of man. Without it he has no past, a paltry present, and an empty future. With it he can bring his dreams to life.