Quotes About Language

We will talk of these things, for there is more to know than we know and more to say than we can say.

He said that all you British are the same – you never bother to learn anyone else's language. You think you can still rule the world by shouting slowly at the natives.

Who?" "I don't remember fucking names. But they called. My assistant answered. Always these buy-me-a-vowel names.

Naw, girl. I mean nekkid." Kelsey looked at both of us in mock disgust before explaining. "Naked is when you don't have any clothes on. Nekkid is when you don't have any clothes on and you're up to no good.

It's stupid, really," I began again. "But it was this thing I read someplace, and it really got to me. It said that a dictionary is every book ever written and every book that will be written, just in a different order. And it seemed magical. You could own every book just by owning one book. I loved that. And I just had to have it,

A dictionary is every book ever written and every book that will be written, just in a different order. And it seemed magical. You could own every book just by owning one book.

It said that a dictionary is every book ever written and every book that will be written, just in a different order. And it seemed magical. You could own every book just by owning one book. I loved that. And I just had to have it.

And for two weeks I was banged up with a Hobbit who only spoke Elvish," said Jess.

the words make our silences easier--they're the current that runs under them.

We are so limited, you have to use the same word for loving Rosaleen as you do for loving Coke with peanuts. Isn't that a shame we don't have many more ways to say it?

In Italy, I had an Afro, and a lot of the kids came up and felt my hair. It really was funny. I wish I had understood Italian.

For even now, decades after I first adopted it, English does not pierce my heart the same way that my mother tongue does. The word division weighs less than bundan, and war is easier to say than junjeng.

The entire country was like a linguistic and cultural Galápagos.

Sir Bumbuggerer

The Korean word for tree rose in his mind, surprising him, like a fish breaking the surface of a calm pond.

Poetry is the sound of the human animal.

Feminist Fables] uses the very power of language and the literary tradition to expose what is absurd and unacceptable.

entailing difficult technical philosophical terms are so different from those of European thought, that they can hardly ever be accurately translated.

Mesmo se você fosse capaz de conversar com as pessoas

Words begin as description. They are prismatic, vehicles of hidden, deeper shades of thought. You can hold them up at different angles until the light bursts through in an unexpected color.

it allowed me to engage with my experience intellectually instead of practically, to analyze it instead of trying to fix it. And it demonstrated how another woman, in another time, had struggled with a version of my problem and tried to make sense of her story in her own language.

I couldn't forget the way the pod had sized me up, or their peculiar squeaking, creaking language, or how ridiculously fun it was to just cruise along with them.

I have Italian heritage, so I'm keen to go over for a few months with the girls and soak up the culture and the food. I'd like us all to learn Italian together as a family - it's something I've been saying for years.

I think if you study people in the street today, you do sometimes feel that they have taken their behavior and their language from things that they have seen rather than read - from soap operas and movies and so on.