Quotes About Language

Q: Why is the roach clip called a roach clip? A: Because "pot holder" was taken.

Q: Did you hear about the dyslexic lawyer? A: He studied all year for the bra exam.

Verbal hemophilia. Why can't I clot?

Ly" adverbs slow down the sentence and often foil the writer's intent.

Anyone using two or more exclamation points together will not only be rejected but taken out and shot!!!

People write programs. That statement is worth pausing over. People write programs. Despite the field's infatuation with metaphors like architecture and bridge-building and its dabbling in alternative models from biology or physics, the act of programming today remains an act of writing—of typing character after character, word after word, line after line.

Striving to convey to this beloved audience of one what was going on around me during those five years, I learned the power of language to map a life, to overcome a distance, to focus attention on what matters most.

In France, everyone speaks French 'cause they think it's cool. Gives 'em, gives 'em an excuse to smoke.

Music, as many people have said, is the universal language. Of course points are made which make you think about things, but ultimately it makes you feel. And that's why people remember more songs that have meant something during their life than films. They start to define periods in your life, and that's kind of the beauty of it.

Shay sometimes talked in a mysterious way, like she was quoting the lyrics of some band no one else listened to.

Start speaking the very first day. Don't be afraid to talk to strangers. Use a phrasebook to get started; save formal study for later. Use visual mnemonics to memorize vocabulary.

Le parole rimangiate sono amare sulla lingua. (La dimora del sacrilego incantesimo)

Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure The bastion of sensation. Do not waver Into language. Do not waver in it.

The language must be careful and must appear effortless. It must not sweat. It must suggest and be provocative at the same time.

Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time.

I think that Shakespeare is a s***. Absolute s***! He may have been a genius for his time, but I just can't relate to that stuff. "Thee and thous" - the guy sounds like a faggot.

Things you think you're saying for the first time ever, have been said better before by Shakespeare, though they may need saying again.

Tempted to type meaningless twaddle all the time on Twitter...with alliteration, no less!

Obviously, there's a million things we're allowed to say on late-night cable that you're not allowed to say on a prime time broadcast.

In the United States there's not a lot of people interested in foreign language films. Every time, it's more difficult for foreign language films to survive here.

There is so much more content in English that a lot of people have a hard time filtering through the noise.

You don't need to be able to string a sentence together in a way that is elegant or even vaguely meaningful to produce a bestseller - as Dan Brown has demonstrated time and again.

I've never seen a movie in Hebrew about Jesus. I have three kids, I don't have enough time to watch TV.

Writing can be either readable or precise, but not at the same time.