Quotes About Language

Through the lack of attaching myself to words, my thoughts remain nebulous most of the time. They sketch vague, pleasant shapes and then are swallowed up; I forget them almost immediately.

You were in my arms for the first time, and you said my name, 'Tristan.' I answered you: 'Isolde.' Isolde. The world became a word.

I'm the final clause in a periodic sentence, and that sentence begins a long time ago, in another language, and you to read it from the beginning to get to the end, which is my arrival.

No one gives Cameron Diaz a hard time for not speaking Spanish.

I see architecture as a form of communication over time.

For precisely when concepts fail one, Words are found at the right time.

Anger is preverbal, so, by the time you're using words to express an angry feeling, you're already imposing loads of structure on that primal experience.

I've never been in any country for more than four years, and I'm learning different languages all the time. It gives you a different attitude.

First grade was - I spoke only Spanish, and second grade - probably a bit more English. And by the time I hit third grade, I was learning, of course, much, much more English.

Every relationship has its own language. It takes a long time to evolve and read one another. Just as it's true for people, it's also true on a national or cultural level.

I realised I'd spent a lot of time in my poetry trying to find a way of talking about that whereof we cannot speak.

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

Yes, metaphor. That's how the whole fabric of mental interconnections holds together. Metaphor is right at the bottom of being alive.

You can get far in North America with laconic grunts. "Huh," "hun," and "hi!" in their various modulations, together with "sure," "guess so," "that so?" and "nuts!" will meet almost any contingency.

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.

Pictures rule, but words define, explain, express, direct, and hold together our thoughts and what we know.

No one should ever have to read a sentence twice because of the way it is put together.

There are many languages in the world; in meaning all are the same. If you break the cups, water will be unified and will flow together.

Language is a unifying instrument which binds people together. When people speak one language they become as one, they become a society.

Poetry has its own laws speaking for the life of the planet. It is a language that wants to bring back together what the other words have torn apart.

I am convinced that music really is the universal language of beauty which can bring together all people of good will on earth

Music is the universal language no matter the country we are born in or the color of our skin. Bring us all together.

It's an old Aboriginal word meaning 'Let's get together and have fun'. They gave us the word because they had no further need for it.

When putting words together is good to do it with nicety and caution, your elegance and talent will be evident if by putting ordinary words together you create a new voice.