Quotes About Language

C++ offers a small zoo of fundamental types, but since I'm not a zoologist, I will not list them all.

Words differently arranged have different meanings, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

Eloquence is painted thought, and thus those who, after having painted it, add somewhat more, make a picture, not a portrait.

Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.

Language was a code, like numbers, he said, and depended just as much on rhythm for its power

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

your problem is that you wanna better word for world

Semantics and labels could drive you crazy.

They're homicide bombers," Eagle said. "I hate when they call them suicide bombers. If they were suicide bombers, they'd go out into the middle of the desert and blow themselves up. Don't take others with you.

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The tweets were not incidental to his presidency. They were central. He ordered printouts of his recent tweets that had received a high number of likes, 200,000 or more. He studied them to find the common themes in the most successful. He seemed to want to become more strategic, find out whether success was tied to the subject, the language or simply the surprise that the president was weighing in. The most effective tweets were often the most shocking.

I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop.

I have never understood those dreams of a completely original form of expression. The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say. Then he uses the old language in his urgency and the old language is translated from within.

Poetry searches for music amidst the tumult of the dictionary.

L'uso del condizionale osservò Giacomorto è spesso una confessione di impotenza - o di vanità.

Ce n'est pas une explication. Je n'ai pas d'explication à donner. D'ailleurs, on n'explique rien avec des mots.

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I know what a bar is, you nonce.

There are very few things in the world as pleasing to the ear as English spoken by a Russian woman.

The captain swore polyglot -very polyglot- polyglot with bloom and blood.

The gypsies may not have known the language, but there was no mistaking the tone, in whatever tongue the words were spoken.

when the fairy sang, the whole world listened to him. Stephen felt clouds pause in their passing; he felt sleeping hills shift and murmur; he felt cold mists dance. He understood for the first time that the world is not dumb at all, but merely waiting for someone to speak to it in a language it understands. In the fairy's song the earth recognized the names by which it called itself.

She lived quite alone and whether the fault was hers or whether the fault was theirs I do not know. And a great deal of time went by and she did not speak to a living soul and a great wind of madness howled through her and overturned all her languages. And she forgot Italian, forgot English, forgot Latin, forgot Basque, forgot Welsh, forgot every thing in the world except Cat – and that, it is said, she spoke marvellously well.