Quotes About Language

Music is a great energizer. It's a language everybody knows.

You must sit down to speak this language, It is so heavy you can't be polite or chatter in it. For once you have begun a sentence, the whole course of your life is laid out before you" -quoted in "The Geography of Bliss

The language of loss and the language of hope may, at times, come into conflict as we face end-of-life issues.

I learned to write because I am one of those people who somehow cannot manage the common communications of smiles and gestures, but must use words to get across things that other people would never need to say.

He was called "Pancho" because people at that time didn't have enough sense to be offended by stuff like that.

they had discovered five ways the words came. He

the inexhaustible pages of nature Ã¢â'¬Â¦ written over and over uncountable times, written in characters of every size and color, sentences composed of sentences, every part of a character a sentence.

When language fails, violence becomes a language.

microaggressions, detailing

A handful of the senior officers listening to the speech disapproved of Patton's coarse language. Patton could not care less. He believes that profanity is the language of the soldier, and that to speak to soldiers one must use words that will have the most impact.

You know where you find sympathy? In the dictionary between shit and syphillis.

Then, it hit me. I had asked for condiments. The woman from room service—who didn't speak English very well—thought I said condoms

Communication is the expression, interpretation, and negotiation of meaning with a purpose in a given context.

Calvin: Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Hobbes: Probably so we can think twice.

Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.

Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.

I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon.

The truth about the Costa del Sol is that what endures, what is worthwhile, is what is Spanish.

Everybody appears to look down on Bieber. No person able to write a grammatical sentence about Justin Bieber actually thinks him worthy of the sentence.

Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence.

Without translation, I would be limited to the borders of my own country. The translator is my most important ally. He introduces me to the world.

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.