Quotes About Language

I spoke the language the sentences that had lied their grandfathers and sent their grandmothers to the worlds first concentration camps.

He was notorious for cutting short extraneous verbiage from over-loquacious barristers.

I spoke the language that had pronounced the sentences that had killed their grandfathers and sent their grandmothers to the world's first concentration camps

While being beaten by the other kids encouraged me to learn a new language, it wasn't doing my confidence a lot of good.

Quién te ha dicho que no puede haber amor verdadero, fiel y eterno en el mundo, que no existe? ¡Que le corten la lengua repugnante a ese mentiroso!

Hacedores de imágenes, devolved la palabra a los hombres!

Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified.

Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.

If the incision of our words amounts to nothing but a feeling, a slow motion, it will still cut a better swath than the factory model, the corporate model, the penitentiary model, which by my lights are one and the same.

Poetry and advertising (the basest mode of which is propaganda) are in direct and total opposition. If you do not use language you are used by it.

I believe the word used wrongly distorts the world.

Americans and Irish. Separated by a common language.

What was done to the Highlanders after Culloden would forever be a dark stain on the English soul. Everything from the pipes to the plaids to the Gaelic language itself had been forbidden, obliterating an

As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.

as texting has become the default discourse for an entire generation, the ability to read real-life facial expressions and body language is alarmingly atrophying.

There is nothing more important to me than the power of words to describe, re-create, entrance, and provoke.

The shortest distance between two minds is a figure of speech.

a language that, all this time, we knew.

It is said that humans are defined and distinguished from other animals by our ability to use tools and language, but often I wonder if the most uniquely human trait is our ability to deceive ourselves.

It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.

You know the opinion of Cervantes? He said that reading a translation is like examining the back of a piece of tapestry.

All colours are arbitrary.

No question; language can free us of feeling, or almost. Maybe that's one of its functions - so we can understand the world without becoming entirely overwhelmed by it.

They became upright and taught themselves the use of tools, domesticated other animals, plants and fire, and devised language. The ash of stellar alchemy was now emerging into consciousness. At an ever-accelerating pace, it invented writing, cities, art and science, and sent spaceships to the planets and the stars. These are some of the things that hydrogen atoms do, given fifteen billion years of cosmic evolution.