Quotes About Language

It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that it will have much more influence than even Shakespeare upon the written and spoken language of the English race.

I respond to the sound of London being spoken - to the sound of London.

Languages like English, Spanish, and Chinese are healthy languages. They exist in spoken, written, and signed forms, and they're used by hundreds of millions of people all over the world. But most of the 6,000 or so of the world's languages aren't in such a healthy state.

Spoken language's elaborate rhythms and inflections convey more meaning per word than the printed word.

I am attracted by almost any French word - written or spoken. Before I knew its meaning, I thought 'saucisson' so exquisite that it seemed the perfect name to give a child - until I learned it meant 'sausage!'

I don't really consider myself an immigrant, because I was born French; I have always spoken the language. I never had the feeling of being a foreigner. I was very lucky: I came to France, and I had enough money to study and to rent a studio. So, for me, it was not difficult.

My parents both worked full-time flipping burgers at the local fast-food joint, and my grandmother looked after us. English was her second language, so instead of books, I learned spoken French nursery rhymes and curse words.

The language of politics is spoken in the first-person plural, and for Conservatives, the duty of the politician is to maintain that first-person plural in being.

Just classic immigrant story - I mean, child of immigrant story - did not grow up with cable and so felt constantly like I was being spoken to in a foreign language when I would go to school. And people would be like, did you watch this? Did you watch that? I'd be like, no, but I did watch 'SNL.'

I was an English major in college, so I really liked spoken word and poetry; it was what I did before I wrote music.

I think that anybody who is going to be the standard-bearer, the spokesman for the progressive movement, in the context of a presidential race, has got to learn to master the language and really get their finger on the pulse of how people are feeling. I think that's really important.

The dusk was performing its customary intransitive operation of "gathering".

The language that nature speaks is the same language that we invented for mathematics. That's just an amazing piece of luck, which we don't understand.

We Jews created the concept of good luck. Luck in Hebrew is mazel, which is not actually a word. It is an acronym for three words: 1. makom = place2. zman = time3. lamud = work

'I am' is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that 'I do' is the longest sentence?

The Apache don't have a word for love," he said. "Know what they both say at the marriage? The squaw-taking ceremony?" "Tell me." "Varlebena. It means forever. That's all they say.

Marriage is a language of love, equality, and inclusion.

Being called 'love' or 'my love' by someone doesn't necessarily mean that you are loved or even liked by them.

A schoolchild should be taught grammar—for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.

Screwy," I said. "Is that a medical term?" "Of course.

Faith talks in the language of God. Doubt talks in the language of man.

Think as the wise men think, but talk like the simple people do.

If language was given to men to conceal their thoughts, then gesture's purpose was to disclose them.

Men are apt to be much more influenced by words than by the actual facts of the surrounding reality