Quotes About Language

Next to God, love is the word most mangled in every language. The highest form of regard between two people is friendship, and when love enters, friendship dies.

Next to 'God', 'love' is the word most mangled in every language.

A handful of letters doesn't always make a word, love.

I love music more than language: it's the best, it's universal.

In the English language, I can love my car, or my house, or my daughter, or traveling, but in Greek and how I grew up, love is described with different words.

Whatever we have words for, that we have already got beyond.

I do love perusing the dictionary to find how many words I don't use - words that have specific, sharp, focused meaning. I also love the sound of certain words. I love the sound of the word pom-pom.

I love words; they are the quoits, the bows, the staves that furnish the gymnasium of the mind.

When you sing in English and Spanish, it's two completely different forms of expression and... even the people who don't speak Spanish love to hear me sing in Spanish.

I use profanity because I like profanity, but I'm not vulgar. Big difference. I love profanity because I really think profanity is cool.

I love saying "Booyakasha!" I keep finding new ways to say it. I love saying "Booyakasha." It means love will prevail.

I love Russian, because it's delicious to speak like that. If you have to speak French, you can also do that, because it's not difficult. Accents are a cool thing to do. And I love doing them.

All paraphrases and expletives are so much in disuse that soon the only way of making love will be to say, "Lie down.

The word love carries the same vibration in any language. You probably know this guy, you probably had dinner with him yesterday. The Japanese water crystal guy?

It would be great if I woke up tomorrow and could speak Persian. Wouldn't you love to wake and have a language in your mind that wasn't there the night before?

I love theater. I also love radio. I love language.

I speak English, Portuguese, and French. One day I'd love to learn Italian.

Fate loves best such syllables as are sweet and sonorous on the tongue.

I think of the irony that in our language [Nepali] the word for love can also mean deceit.

I love John Ashbery. He's the - really the poet laureate of English language poetry, whether he's given that or not, he is to me.

When you doubt between words, use the plainest, the commonest, the most idiomatic. Eschew fine words as you would rouge; love simple ones as you would the native roses on your cheek.

Love: A term which has no meaning if defined.

we must be precise with love, its language and its gestures. If it is to save us, we must look at it as clearly as we should learn to look at death

I love the kookiness of our speech. Speech is like wonderful magic and poetry in itself. I've always had to crib a lot from what I've heard.