Quotes About Language

El ruido tiene una ventaja. No se oyen las palabras.

Litost, baÅŸka dillere çevrilmesi olanaks?z çekçe bir sözcüktür. Adamak?ll? aç?lm?? bir akordeon gibi sonsuz bir duyguyu, baÅŸka birçok duygular?n bileÅŸimi olan bir duyguyu anlat?r: hüzün, ac?ma, piÅŸmanl?k ve özlem. SözcüÄŸün ilk hecesi, terk edilmiÅŸ bir köpeÄŸin s?zlanmas?n? duyuracak biçimde uzun ve güçlü bir biçimde vurgulan?r.

Es curioso, la gente emplea palabras groseras de la mañana a la noche, pero, cuando oye hablar por la radio a una persona conocida, a la que aprecia, utilizando la palabra "Mierda" en cada frase, se siente decepcionada

There is in these words the beautiful maneuverability of the abstract rushing in to replace the intractability of the concrete.

Today we use the word cult to describe a small group of extremists cut off from contact with the outside world by an all-controlling leader. People in antebellum America, however, struggled to find language for the phenomenon, largely because they had never seen anything quite like it before. As recent scholars have attested, "The historical record indicates that utopian and apocalyptic cults and communes first appeared as a major form in the United States during this epoch.

I dream in a language I do not understand when I'm awake.

Sloppy writing reflects sloppy thinking.

I learned to love the feel of good words.

I love the language. I'm just totally fascinated by the sound and the look of words and the kinds of cadences you can create with them, the various kinds of music.

There is a certain advantage to the British accent. I do notice that Americans love it; they think the we Brits are smarter than perhaps we are.

I have an accent, I'm limited, I have to play foreign parts - I would love to play American parts but I can't because I have an accent. You are more limited as a foreigner in every area.

The word devil is very beautiful, if you read it backwards it becomes lived.

The love of our own language, what is it, in fact, but the love of our country expressing itself in one particular direction?

I am the queen of hashtags! I love hashtags. I think in hashtags. I wish I could write everything in hashtag.

Who knew three dots could make such a difference? Like everything else, a love or a wish or whatever, it was all in the way you read it.

Language is like looking at a map of somewhere. Love is living there and surviving on the land.

I love being verbal in films.

We speak the love language, they speak from pain and anguish. Some don't love theyselves, so they perception is tainted.

I love learning languages, and actually computer code is another language as well.

I love the edited version of it.

One of the last courses I taught was on the Russian short story, which I love.

There are things that can only be said with a good string of cussing. I'm definitely fond of a few choice words. They say things that nothing else can say. Gotta love it.

When I was twenty I was in love with words, a wordsmith. I didn't know enough to know when people were letting words get in their way. Now I like the words to disappear, like a transparent curtain.

I love words but I don't like strange ones. You don't understand them and they don't understand you. Old words is like old friends, you know 'em the minute you see 'em.