Quotes About Language

Ath a MAN Writeth, So He Speaketh!

Does a 'beefsteak' derive it's terminology name from the habit of complaining too often?

Another way of approaching the thing is to consider it unnamed, unnamable.

When it has finished saying it, it no longer is. The longer it is in saying it, the more it can say it at length, the more slowly it melts, the better quality it is.

It is the awareness of right and wrong, along with the development of language, awareness of self, and the ability to imagine the future, to which scientists generally refer when trying to enumerate the special qualities of Homo sapiens

But there is, alas, no doubt that we are becoming a vocabulary-deprived nation—nay, planet. Words have been dropping off all through this century, but the loss increased radically in the sixties with the immorality of "limited vocabulary.

Y porque no lo tengan por maricón, ahaje ese cuello y agobie de espaldas; la capa caída, que siempre nosotros andamos de capa caída; ese hocico, de tornillo: gestos a un lado y a otro; y haga vucé de las g, h y de las h, g. Diga conmigo: gerida, mogino, jumo, pahería, mohar, habalí y harro de vino.

Follamos o fornicamos? - Lo que sea, Pepe, pero pronto, que tengo hora en la peluqueria.

Between France and Senegal there's a history. There's a language that we both speak. There's a culture that we share and to which both of our peoples have contributed. But beyond our history, beyond our language, beyond the links that have united us for so long, what unites us today is the future.

When I started to write about my family, no abstract or conceptual language could account for the world I was trying to capture." —Frank Bidart

Lemme take your picture! You fucking bok gwai low got a face carved out of rotten potato cured in dogshit, runover with a towtruck driven by Hellen Keller in a puke fit on pills...

theology needs to develop an idiom that seeks to "glorify God and enjoy him forever.

habit of speaking in paragraphs.

The point about words is—the better you use them, the stronger is the thought that wears them.

Communication requires two things, expression and reception.

I talked this matter over with Douglas more than once. He did not know French well; but he could understand it and he was a rarely good translator as his version of a Baudelaire sonnet shows. In any dispute as to the value of a word or phrase I should prefer his opinion to Oscar's. But Ross is doubtless right on this point. F.H.]

I've done reasonably well over the last 10 years because I took the strategy of language and politics and applied it to the corporate world, which has never been done before.

Ideology and communication more often than not run into each other rather than complement each other. Principle and communication work together. Ideology and communication often work apart.

The language of America changed with the election of Bill Clinton, because with all due respect to my friends on the Republican side, Bill Clinton is the best communicator of the last 50 years. He felt your pain.

Quite frankly Ted, the very mention of the word 'Republican' seems to have negative connotations for the Americans in our studio.

Shakespeare is like mashed potatoes, you can never get enough of him.

I asked my dad what afflicted meant and he said 'Sickness son, and things that don't fit.

There should be so much more, not of orange, of words, of how terrible orange is and life.

life perpetuated in parti-colored loves and beautiful lies all in different languages.