Quotes About Language

If you're looking for sympathy, it's between shit and syphilis in the dictionary.

Each asana is like a sound or letter in an alphabet. Every letter in an alphabet produces a unique sound vibration. Each asana vibrates at a specific frequency. When asanas are performed in sequence, beautiful phrases or sutras result, producing a mystical language.

Jeeves, I must ask your assistance in the matter of the pronoun.

I hate that word, by the way. Retarded. I

Everybody uses words to express themselves. Except me. And I bet most people don't realize the real power of words. But I do. Thoughts

Everybody uses words to express themselves. Except me. And I bet most people don't realize the real power of words. But I do.

Talk. I pointed to my board. I hit the word again and again. Talk. Talk. Talk.

Everybody uses words to express themselves. Except me. And I bet most people don't realize the real power of words. But I do. Thoughts need words. Words need a voice.

If you had a better vocabulary, perhaps you wouldn't be failing English!

I want to gather the unaccented beats... and thank them, give them treats, whatever a feminine ending eats

And suddenly I see I do write poems in sentences—not broken into lines, but wound around the caesura, making a caduceus.

And they do not know language, they are waiting for him

Boondocks' is simply the Tagalog word for mountains.

Shaun Considine

Renaud Lavoie, a reporter with rds, the French-language sports network, said he was amazed by how quickly Crosby learned French and that he continued to practise it.

Being Taiwanese in Japan was like being a guitar-playing monkey: their fluent Japanese elicited awe from the people they met, yet they were considered not-quite-whole people.

Past, present, and future too swirl together, distinguishable but not delineated by any sort of grammar beyond the one our hearts impose.

No Taiwanese" was the first rule, which Zhee Hyan, my second brother, had learned slowly and painfully. Under the government's plan to unify the people with a national language, every syllable of Taiwanese spoken at school brought punishment from the teacher. Taiwanese was for home; Mandarin was for the world. My brother's hands turned purple with beatings until he finally learned to reflexively clench his mouth before a Taiwanese word slipped out.

Here's the deal. You eat some lunch, at least something light that will help you keep your energy up, then we'll talk." "About what? We've already conversed today-twice-in the language you're fluent in: Fuckese." Deke fought a smile. "You probably meant that as a slur, but somehow I'm complemented." "You would be," she muttered.

The initials of the Communist Party in the 1930s, VKP, were read by peasant wits to stand for "Second serfdom" (Vtoroe Krepostnoe Pravo), while in the reading of some Leningrad youths the initials of the USSR itself—SSSR [CCCP] in Russian—became "Stalin's death will save Russia" (Smert' Stalina Spaset Rossiiu).

Women's fiction" doesn't sound like anything but a slur to my ears.

Women apologize too much, I once decided, and made myself stop, and now found it incredibly difficult to tell anyone I was sorry.

Handwriting communicates

Burnside left even sooner, hard on the heels of a violent argument with Meade, an exchange of recriminations which a staff observer said "went far toward confirming one's belief in the wealth and flexibility of the English language as a medium of personal dispute.