Quotes About Language

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other.

Republicans have been losing the war of words for years now. Now they are just caving because they don't even want to try. I don't agree with that approach.

A person whose job is deep thinking about atomic war would no more call a 'megadeath' a 'million corpses' than an embalmer would refer to a 'loved one' as a 'stiff.'

You can't equate the game we play to a war. Kellen Winslow said he's a soldier. No, he's not. This is not a war...not a good comparison.

Language can never 'pin down' slavery, genocide, war. Nor should it yearn for the arrogance to be able to do so. Its force, its felicity, is in its reach toward the ineffable.

that your power of commandwith simple language wasone of the magnificent things ofour century.(from the poem: result)

She turned her painted blue eyes toward the assistant and said something in French before she left.

Words are weapons of war.

...and to this day the rare traveller who knows the language and customs even of the worst of the tribes is safer amongst them than in the neighbouring Cossack settlements.

The war began with words, but none of us paid any attention.'- Seka Milanovik

War is always a contest of words as well as of wounds.

So the whole war is beause we can't talk to each other.

If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom.

The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Many a spoken word is more piercing than an attack.

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.

A man without words is a man without thought.

A kindly tongue is the lodestone of the hearts of men. It is the bread of the spirit, it clotheth the words with meaning, it is the fountain of the light of wisdom and understanding...

In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in High School to teaching remedial English in college.

A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again.