Quotes About Language

Language to me is a tool a very clumsy tool. And words are garden tools with which to till the soil of one's life.

I'm pretty good with languages. I know a bit of French and actually want to live in France some day so that I can get fluent. I think it'd be tragic to go through life only knowing one language.

Was it really so far-fetched to think that words had a way of shaping a person's whole life?

I was born in Scotland and have lived there all my life. I speak conversational Cantonese with my dad when I'm at home, and very basic Mandarin.

Every poem that I write is, in a sense, trying to find adequate words for this unspeakable word, around which my entire life turns.

We are spectacular splendid manifestations of life. We have language. We have affection. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music.

I never bought a stock in my life. I don't understand it. To me it is like Chinese.

The solution to the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of this problem.

What has to be accepted, the given, is - so one could say - forms of life .

There is a phase in the life of every copy editor when she is obsessed with hyphens.

People joke about me that I talk in voiceovers. I have that sort of inflection. But I do talk in voiceovers. I have done it my whole life.

More important than raw size is what we can do with our brains, such as communicate with complex language and learn through culture.

Karin calls the other reality she perceives during her experiences the "fourth dimension.""It's what we call illusion, but it's not illusion. It's not illusion. It exists. It's there. That's where they live. . . . You don't use language when you're in this other experience. You use color, and you have vibration and everything else." Space/time in this dimension, she says, is "irrelevant.

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.

When written in Chinese the word "crisis" is composed of two characters — one represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.

I will remember this word," he said. "Shenanigans. It is a good word.

S'mimasen," Alyss said repeatedly as they brushed against passerby. "What does that mean?" Will asked as they reached a stretch of street bare of any other pedestrians. He was impressed by Alyss's grasp of the local language. "It means 'pardon me,'" Alyss replied, but then a shadow of doubt crossed her face. "At least, I hope it does. Maybe I'm saying 'you have the manners of a fat, rancid sow.

sarcasm isn't the lowest form of wit. It's not even wit at all.

Halt rolled his eyes. "Yes, there's a problem! You sound as if you swallowed a dictionary and then threw it up!

Maddie mompelde een niet erg damesachtige verwensing. 'Zo, dat verwacht je niet te horen uit de mond van een prinses,' merkte Will op. 'Waar heb je die uitdrukking in 's hemelsnaam geleerd?' 'Van mijn moeder,' antwoordde ze kortaf. Will knikte. 'Aha, natuurlijk. Vandaar.

Iedereen noemt zijn schip dezer dagen maar naar vogels. - Erak

Flatulence? What's that?' Stig asked. Words of more than two syllables sometimes confused him. 'He farts,' Thorn put in. Stig thought about it, then nodded his head. 'Yeah, well, I can do that.' Hal and Thorn both answered simultaneously. 'We know.