Quotes About Language

She loves quotation marks and peanut butter and words.

I know what words do, he thinks. They let us feel less. "No

I had never been good with words. On the path from my heart to my brain to my mouth, phrases became twisted and hopelessly convoluted. The intent—what I meant to say—never quite made it out.

Puedes tomar prestadas las palabras que no encuentras.

Ruby laughed. "Mrs. Morgan says people shouldn't use 'douchebag' in a negative way, because it turns a feminine hygiene product into a bad word. She says there's nothing wrong with a douchebag except that douching itself creates an unhealthy climate for a vagina.

Žinau, k? daro žodžiai. Žodžiai išlaisvina jaumus.

The wallpaper has a bumpy, swirling pattern, and it is pleasing to rub her face against it. She will read the word damask in a book one day and think, Yes, of course that's what it's called. In contrast, the word wainscoting will come as a huge disappointment.

Má»™t nÆ¡i tá»­ t? sao có th? thi?u ti?m sách ???c ch?, Izzie.

I never met a word I didn't love

Pleased as punch. That's an odd-sounding turn of phrase, isn't it? How can a punch be pleased? It's punch. Rum and lemons and such. And if it's the other sort of punch they mean, a punch in the face- well that doesn't sound very pleasing at all, does it?

Pearl spent the passing days buried so deep in the musty, dusty sorcery tomes that sometimes when she emerged, she spoke in archaic english. "Hast thou a light?" she'd asked him this afternoon when her study room had grown dark with gathering clouds.

Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.

Yes, if you believed in words, if you lived by words, you had better be careful which words you say and how you say them. You had better be careful what you look up, which words, which names. Jane Clifford, in The Odd Woman

They had been mistaken, it seemed, in seeking other tongues. Languages were not a special capacity, as she had once imagined, but incautious assent to the wrong kinds of meanings. A

Theology is prose, but liturgy is poetry.

It's unfortunate and worth noting that the same word we use to describe [pathological anxiety], we also use to describe our feelings about a high-pressure day at the office. The word 'anxiety', in all of its derivations, is among the most overused in the English language.

I had decided I wanted to write about food, and I knew the only way to do that is to speak with authority, which meant learning the language and knowing what that experience is like.

What an eloquent manikin!

The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.

Philosophy [nature] is written in that great book which ever is before our eyes -- I mean the universe -- but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols in which it is written. The book is written in mathematical language, and the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it; without which one wanders in vain through a dark labyrinth.

Philosophy is written in this grand book - I mean the Universe - which stands continually open to our gaze, but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and interpret the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it

Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe

Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.

Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes — I mean the universe — but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written