Quotes About Language

I have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people.

I love being Italian.

Speak any language, Turkish, Greek, Persian, Arabic, but always speak with love

I do love translating; it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing.

People say to me, 'How do I know if a word is real?' You know, anybody who's read a children's book knows that love makes things real. If you love a word, use it. That makes it real.

But Kate, dost thou understand thus much English? Canst thou love me?" Catherine: "I cannot tell." Henry: "Can any of your neighbours tell, Kate? I'll ask them.

I love the right words. I think economy and precision of language are important.

Letters do love one another. However, due to their anatomical differences, some letters have a hard time achieving intimacy.

I love accents - I wish I could find an accent for every one of my characters. It makes it so much easier when I don't have to hear my own voice.

I decided to come back and teach goodness in this business. To teach love, because music is the universal language. We are God's bouquet, and through music we become one.

I must tell you that the supply of words on the world market is plentiful, but the demand is falling.

The language of love may be universal, but it's not one of the options on an ATM machine.

Love has various lodgings; the same word does not always signify the same thing.

Americans specially love superlatives. The phrases 'biggest in the world,' 'finest in the world,' are on all lips.

As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words.

Love provided me with a tongue and tears.

Affection is one of the most neglected words in the English language, that people throw the word love around like confetti when they mean affection.

As is the case with all good things in life - love, good manners, language, cooking - personal creativity is required only rarely.

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor

Isn't the most sensitive point of this mourning the fact that I must lose a language — the amorous language? No more 'I love you's.

I would love to live in Paris and speak French. That would make me feel glamorous!

I love going somewhere like Japan where you can't understand a word of the advertising - you just see it for its aesthetic beauty, without feeling that you're being sold something.

No language is justly studied merely as an aid to other purposes. It will in fact better serve other purposes, philological or historical, when it is studied for love, for itself.

I love the language, it sounds as if it should be writ on satin with syllables which breathe of the sweet South