Quotes About Language

Just words, words. I sometimes wish we had never learned how to talk.

The same situation of stimulus called by a different name is a different stimulus. Roller coasters are fun but bumpy plane rides are not!

You can't read my shorthand because I wrote in Polish.

Why does naming a thing give it so much power?

And Philippe won't speak English. She's sure he can - he's got that European je ne sais quoi that usually means "Oh, I speak six languages. And a little Japanese.

What are your drawn to?" ... "Language, Words, No, not teaching. Perhaps one day I'll write something.

To have another language is to possess a second soul." – Charlemagne

Words and terms are born out of a need to describe the world. But because the victors, who get to write the history, had little need to describe the fate of the conquered, the words did not exist soon enough to describe and ultimately prevent the wholesale destruction of black communities in America.

The limits of our cognition are not defined by the limits of our language.

There were a lot of terms you had to learn, as opposed to the shylock business where all you had to know how to say was 'Give me the fuckin money.

Don't go into great detail describing places and things, unless you're ­Margaret Atwood and can paint scenes with language. You don't want descriptions that bring the action, the flow of the story, to a standstill.

Surrounded by people speaking a different language, our family started talking to each other. We drew into a very small tribe (population: four), who ate together, and squabbled together, and mostly played together. We learned to waste our moments-together. And then we brought that lesson home with us.

Informality is the vice of the masses.

Others were translated, for example, Churchton became Kirkby.

They had nothing in common but the English language.

Do speak positively. For, you can liberate yourself by speaking like that. Contrariwise, you can enslave yourself by speaking negatively.

Love is a universal language. That's why its impact is widely felt by billions of people. Yes of course, love is impactful. And so, true lovers ought to be impactors of true love and never impostors. -Emeasoba George

Positive thinking and positive speaking do pay off i.e. they often yield good results unlike negative thinking and negative speaking that often yield bad results. Thus, introspect your thoughts and you better watch your mouth as well. I mean, think, speak and act just positively at all times. ~Emeasoba George

We inhabit a language rather than a country.

It is no nation that we inhabit, but a language. Make no mistake; our native toungue is our true fatherland.

Word — That invisible dagger.

I dream of a language whose words, like fists, would fracture jaws.

I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers.

That there should be a reality hidden behind appearances is, after all, quite possible; that language might render such a thing would be an absurd hope.