Quotes About Language

People can try to make me into anything they want, but I think they're really throwing around language but saying the same thing.

The key is that Jesus does want to speak to us-to you-today. In your own language, just as a friend would speak. We simply need to take the time to listen.

The British capitalize on their accent when they don't want you to know what they're saying. But if you wake them up at 4 A.M., they speak perfect English, the same as we do.

No word is capable of carrying the impulses one wants to send with it.

Music is the language of all. It tames the savage beast and allows us to get over heartbreak. It helps us express what we really want to say and it has the power to lift hearts and awaken our souls.

God is a word to express, not our ideas, but the want of them.

I said I kicked a French chicken in the stomach once." "Huh?" "It said, 'Oeuf.'" "What is that?" "It's a joke. Do you want to hear another, or have you already had un oeuf?

If you can get by with quotes from The Godfather and nothing you say matters, that's pretty bleak, don't you think? Don't we want what we say to matter?

Be careful. I wouldn't want anything to happen to the worst Spanish student in the history of the language." I laughed. "No problemo.

Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are.

A Yea might turn in to a Nae and vice versa if a sufficient quantity of wordage was applied. In other talk you argument out until you get the answer you want.

Sometimes, in doing philosophy, one just wants to utter an inarticulate sound.

Over 90 percent of parents in Puerto Rico want their children to be totally fluent in English.

I like to invent the dialogue that I want to have heard.

He left Chainsaw behind, much to her irritation. Ronan didn't want her to learn any bad language.

Why is it suddenly uncool to spell? That's all I want to know.

What I said was: We want everybody to learn English because we don't want - I didn't use the word 'Spanish.'

I went to a dialect coach and she told me that I had five problems; two were my Israeli accent and three were my New Jersey accent. I don't even want to know what I sounded like back then!

I am proud to be a Turk, and to write in Turkish about Turkey - and to have been translated into about 40 languages. But I don't want to politicize things by dramatizing them.

Before the war it was always the United States *are*, after the war it was the United States is... it made us an is.

When this war is over, the Japanese language will be spoken only in hell!

I am about to - or I am going to - die; either expression is correct.

Words create conceptions and self-conceptions and ultimately nations. They can start and stop wars. They can would and heal. Choosing words carefully is a moral responsibility.

Profanity is the parlance of the fool. Why curse when there is such a magnificent language with which to discourse?