Quotes About Language

The third way is to use certain key phrases that paint a picture that runs counter to the worries and concerns that a typical high–action-threshold prospect ruminates on. Some examples of this are: "I'll hold your hand every step of the way" … "We pride ourselves on long-term relationships" … "We have blue-chip customer service.

No wonder I worried about talking dirty; talking in general seemed to escape me.

Most of my Spanish vocabulary consists of phrases like I didn't know that car was stolen, or I was home watching TV during the shooting, or That's not blood, it's molé sauce.

You can't write a sonnet if you have to look up the spelling of each word as you go.

Az orvos csak annyit tud, hogy szépen beszél meg rondán ír.

y su acento, sin dejar de tener aquella música que le era peculiar, se hacía lento y profundo al pronunciar palabras suavemente articuladas, que en vano probaría yo a recordar hoy: porque no he vuelto a oírlas, porque pronunciadas por otros labios no son las mismas, y escritas en estas páginas aparecerían sin sentido. Pertenecen a otro idioma, del cual hace algunos años no viene a mi memoria ni una frase.

He constructed a vast labyrinthine of periods, made impassable by the piling-up of clauses upon clauses--clauses in which oversight and bad grammar seemed manifestations of disdain.

In general, every country has the language it deserves.

We feel poetry as we feel the closeness of a woman, or as we feel a mountain or a bay. If we feel it immediately, why dilute it with other words, which no doubt will be weaker than our feelings?

The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

Little by little I came to realize the strange irony of events. I had always imagined Paradise as a kind of library. Others think of a garden or of a palace. There I was, the center, in a way, of nine hundred thousand books in various languages, but I found I could barely make out the title pages and the spines.

The original is unfaithful to the translation.

Florence fue triplemente discriminada: por ser extranjera, por hablar francés y por ser mujer.»

No hay calidad sin entrenamiento. Un escritor solo puede innovar si tiene hábitos lingüísticos poderosos y fértiles. Inventemos desde lo que sabemos. José Antonio Marina

Nadie inventó el subjuntivo ni la conjunción copulativa. Fue una gigantesca interacción comunicativa, expresiva, hiriente o amorosa a la que pulió las herramientas lingüísticas.

Da grima escuchar las inepcias que a toda hora se dicen.

The existence of language is, in a way, a continual denigration of words.

God Writes only consonants...the reader is the writer.

Su mueca es fofa, su palabra muda, su mirar opaco.

By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself an exaggeration.

Walang maitutugon ang wika sa tanong ng pag-ibig buhat sa isang sulyap na kumikislap o palihim. Sa halip, sumasagot ang ngiti, ang halik, o ang bugtonghininga.

When a people holds onto its language, it holds onto a semblance of freedom, like a man who holds onto his independence when he retains his own way of thinking. Language is the thought of a people.

Walang maitutugon ang wika sa tanong ng pag-ibig buhat sa isang sulyap na kumikislap o palihim. Sa halip, sumasagot ang ngiti, ang halik, o ang buntonghininga.