Quotes About Language

I actually love working with accents. I don't know, something about it unlocks something in me. It makes me concentrate on getting into character a little more, helps me find a focus.

The point about L-O-V-E is that we hate the word. Because we vulgarize it. It should be taboo, forbidden from utterance for many years, till we've found a new and a better idea.

If children haven't been read to, they don't love books. They need to love books, for books are the basis of literature, composition, history, world events, vocabulary, and everything else.

Something may have been lost in translation, but it certainly wasn't love

I love to see people's faces change when they hear me speak English and they realize how far I have been able to go.

I was never much of a reader. I'm a slow reader, which is unusual, because I'm so into language and I love words so much. But it's hard for me to read.

To defend what we love we need a particularizing language, for we love what we particularly know.

Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?

People would never fall in love if they hadn't heard love talked about.

Sometimes before people know what they're saying, they already love the language.

I loved and still love watching words flower into sentences and sentences blossom into stories.

Our tongues have fallen madly in love and gotten married and moved to Paris.

God created us with sexual passion so that there would be language to describe what it means to cleave to him in love and what it means to turn away from him to others.

I love the semicolon; it's unnecessary, but graceful and sophisticated.

A writer who writes, ''I am alone''... can be considered rather comical. It is comical for a man to recognize his solitude by addressing a reader and by using methods that prevent the individual from being alone. The word alone is just as general as the word bread. To pronounce it is to summon to oneself the presence of everything the word excludes.

I lean over you, your equal, offering you a mirror for your perfect nothingness, for your shadows which are neither light nor absence of light, for this void which contemplates. To all that which you are, and, for our language, are not, I add a consciousness. I make you experience your supreme identity as a relationship, I name you and define you. You become a delicious passivity.

If nothing were substituted for everything, it would still be too much and too little.

We cannot do anything with an object that has no name.

A word may give me its meaning, but first it suppresses it. For me to be able to say, 'This woman' I must somehow take her flesh and blood reality away from her, cause her to be absent, annihilate her. The word gives me the being, but it gives it to me deprived of being. The word is the absence of that being, its nothingness, what is left of it when it has lost being - the very fact that it does not exist.

Ben lungi dall'essere fluida, la modernità è l'epoca in cui le parole sono pietre, e in cui si attua l'incubo del verba manent .

Se viceversa un filosofo dice che la cosiddetta 'verità' è una questione di potere" perché fa il filosofo invece che il mago?

said, "Kinesics is as much an

Good words were the difference between Emily eating well and not. And what she had found worked best were not facts or arguments but words that tickled people's brains for some reason, that just amused them. Puns, and exaggerations, and things that were true and not at the same time.

Your brain doesn't process language quite like other people. Why that is, I have no idea.' 'I have a superior brain?' 'Uh,' Eliot said, 'I wouldn't go that far.'