Quotes About Language

Subversive language, however, must be constantly reinvented, because it is continually being co-opted by the powerful.

I start sentences with ands and buts. I end sentences with prepositions.

The language of the Soul is right-brain, metaphorical, narrative, and paradoxical, very unlike the left-brain, logical, discursive, dualistic language of the Ego.

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He kept saying weird things to me in Elizabeth English." "Like what?" Christina asked. "Like 'Me thinks I never forget a face,'" Mimi said. "Me thinks that makes no sense," said Grant.

Huddled around the fire of the alphabet...

After sex, after coffee, after everything there is to be said -- The hovering and beautiful alphabet as we form our first words after making love. And somehow I'm still alive.

And she smiles and she utters unearthly things and she utters not in any known language, in stars and pain, pulque she says I am devouring time and the earth

Each word is a boat, a small saving thing in this increasingly dark, blood-drenched dream.

And chanting sentences is the only way to feel better finally. And writing sentences, making shapes, is the only way to feel better. Sustaining, miraculous language, that all these years keeps illness at bay.

Be very careful what you say. Daddy's being very strange about pussies at the moment.' Orla

refused to translate it.33

It is my destiny to know people who abuse punctuation.

She cackles and her accent is so thick that I feel bad for the words coming out of her mouth.

You like words and I know words

Thank you so much." "Every time." "I like that. Every time. Instead of 'anytime.' It's pointed.

Do . . . you . . . speak . . . English?" she asks. NO, BUT I SPEAK CUNT.

her accent is so thick that I feel bad for the words coming out of her mouth.

now her dictionary is marked with all kinds of words that came out of my mouth and into her world. #7

Do you want people to think you're crazy? Because only crazy people capitalize every word.

Do you ever notice how many words we waste?

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

Accents must have been pretty important in Ancient Greek, because a man called Herodian wrote a treatise in twenty-one books about them, most of which, you'll be happy to know, are now lost.

Webster's dislike of words that weren't pronounced the way they looked led him to decree that words such as centre and theatre should be spelled center and theater; he also dropped the silent u from words such as colour, favour and honour. In fact, Webster was single-handedly responsible for most of the differences between British and American spelling that survive to this day.