Quotes About Language

I'm always thinking about being inclusive in my sentences.

If you look at the language of illness, you can use it to describe race - you could experience race as an illness. You can experience income level, at many different levels, as a form of illness. You can experience age as an illness. I mean, it's all got an illness component.

All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by God to manifest himself. But this relationship is secret and incomprehensible, beyond the bounds of reason and analysis.

The dictionary is like a time capsule of all of human thinking ever since words began to be written down. And exploring where words have come from can increase your understanding of the words themselves and expand your understanding of how to use the words, and all of this change happens in your thinking when you read the words.

As I grew, I began learning and speaking a word or two in Bengali and that increased my friends circle.

There's so much that we just accept, but the reasons behind how certain rules came to be are so fascinating and funny, it just increases your affection for language.

As my Russian improves, I become increasingly conscious of just what sort of a society I live in.

It's hard to learn an American accent. Some of the Rs at the ends of words are incredibly hard.

My mother had an incredibly strong accent - although I couldn't hear it - and she was the main person there, so I'll have learnt to speak English from her.

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

I'm indeed excited to be termed as a hero who can command commercial respect in two languages at the same time.

'Ouch' is not independent of social training. One has only to prick a foreigner to appreciate that it is an English word.

I like playing with languages and dialects as we have so many in India. Adding a dialect just makes the dialogues more colorful.

In India I've been to all the award functions, but that was in Hindi; now it's in English so it's a much bigger scale.

Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.

Pourquoi les poëtes parlent-ils mieux que moi de moi même? Je suis furieuse de na pas voir sortir de ma plume de ces phrases admirables qui sont une fin en soi. je scrute, je scrute les vers de poëtes, sûre de découvrir leur secret, sûre de trouver un jour moi aussi la clef de ce langage magique.

Derjenige, der die Sprache der Vernunft spricht, ist derjenige, der am wenigsten liebt.

Il existe onze mots en gaélique pour définir les différentes sortes de pluie, comme il y en a quatorze au Québec pour décrire la neige dans tous ses états.

To pitch a new project at Amazon, you must first write a PR and FAQ, putting the goal smack in the opening sentences of the press release. Everything that happens subsequently is working backwards from the PR/FAQ, as it is called at Amazon. Critically, the language of both documents must be plain. "I called it 'Oprah-speak,' " says Ian McAllister, a former Amazon executive

her only comfort was to curse each searing day with a creative lexicon she didn't know she possessed.

Claire shook her head as she read the e-mails. She had learned to read and write before the advent of the online age and still felt out of place in the e e cummings world of the Internet, where nothing was capitalized, periods were known as dots, and the normal rules of grammar and punctuation did not apply.

Euphemisms persist because lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.

Only those ideas which least belong to us can be adequately expressed in words.