Quotes About Language

No is a powerful word. To me, it's the single most powerful word in the English language. Said clearly, strongly and with enough frequency and force, it can alter the course of history.

When we say something, our subjective intention or situation is always involved. So there is no perfect word; some distortion is always present in a statement.

The verb 'to love' in Persian is 'to have a friend.' 'I love you' translated literally is 'I have you as a friend,' and 'I don't like you' simply means 'I don't have you as a friend.'

Is heaven also made in Taiwan? And does Jesus really know how to speak Samoan?

Words were a conjuration, and their charms had begun to bewitch him.

English is a funny language..... De(a)dication can lead you to all the success in Life

Using Initials was the first step by mankind towards secularism

Maybe that's all there is to it: language, how we employ it to know someone, or love them more deeply.

I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions.

They knew that they were there in the Bahamas because their forefathers had been captured and put on ships and transported to a different part of the world. They knew that those ancestors had a history and a culture, and they talked about that history and culture. Through oral history, they retained some of the fragments of who their great-great-grandfathers were, and probably even some surviving words of their language. They

Therapeutic Metaphors, by David Gordon

Just remember, when someone has an accent, it means that he knows one more language than you do.

None know the power of words, riding on the hot winds of sunset.

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions. Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men's actions.

The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

Tracy I swore 37 times in the last month. I said the 'f-word' a couple of times, but it was mostly 'shit's and 'bastard's. Is 'douche bag' a curse Graham I suppose it would depend on the context. Tracy How about John you're a douche bag for kissing Barbara Graham It's a curse. Tracy Oh, well then it's not 37 times it's 71 times.

In a book I am reading the author talks about word people versus fist people. As if words could not also be fists. Aren't often fists.

Understood: language would end up falsifying everything, as language always does. Writers know this only too well, they know it better than anyone else, and that is why the good ones sweat and bleed over their sentences, the best ones break themselves into pieces over their sentences, because if there is any truth to be found they believe it will be found there.

Because it's all about the rhythm, you said. Good sentences start with a beat.

I'd never really been content with just churning out these slim volumes every three or four years. I've always tried to think of poetry as an active ingredient in the language rather than just something that appears between the covers of thin books.

The central argument of structuralism is in essence a restatement of the discredited argument of linguistic positivism that language is the only reality since knowledge can only be expressed and communicated in linguistic form.

The shapes of letters do not derive their beauty from any sensual or sentimental reminiscences' he wrote. 'No one can say that the O's roundness appeals to us only because it is like that of an apple or a girl's breast or of the full moon. Letters are things, not pictures of things