Quotes About Language

1. A framework that details your corporate vision. 2.   A common language with which to express that vision. 3.   A well-developed routine for keeping the vision current.

the term "merger" should be eliminated from the business vocabulary. There is no such thing. There are only acquisitions.

El adjetivo, cuando no da vida, mata.

Argot is nothing more nor less than a wardrobe in which language, having some bad deed to do, disguises itself. It puts on word-masks and metaphoric rags.

Could the word 'iron' be the root from which 'irony' is derived?

Memory is a gulf that a word can move to its lowest depths.

As he spoke all tongues, he entered into all hearts.

All is not at an end on earth since we can still talk nonsense.

Ceci tuera cela

The thinker who should turn aside from slang would resemble a surgeon who should avert his face from an ulcer or a wart. He would be like a philologist refusing to examine a fact in language, a philosopher hesitating to scrutinize a fact in humanity.

He understood how to say the grandest things in the most vulgar of idioms. As he spoke all tongues, he entered into all hearts.

Far be it from me to insult the pun! I honor it in proportion to its merits; nothing more. All the most august, the most sublime, the most charming of humanity, and perhaps outside of humanity, have made puns.

To teach reading, means to light the fire; every syllable spelled out sparkles.

Les mots manquent aux émotions.

There is not a metaphor, not an analogy, in slang, which does not contain a lesson.

In the first place, the direct creation of words. Therein lies the mystery of tongues. To paint with words, which contains figures one knows not how or why, is the primitive foundation of all human languages, what may be called their granite.

The peculiarity of a language which is desirous of saying all yet concealing all is that it is rich in figures. Metaphor is an enigma, wherein the thief who is plotting a stroke, the prisoner who is arranging an escape, take refuge.

Having an immense reserve fund of wrath to get rid of, and not knowing what to do with it, he continued to address his daughter as you instead of thou for the next three months.

Per distruggere la parola scritta bastano una torcia e un turco. Per distruggere la parola edificata occorre una rivoluzione sociale, una rivoluzione del globo.

Words can be liars, we must not blindly believe what they say.

Words were like pennies, fallen into corners and down the cracks, not worth the effort of collecting.

Really, his French was terrible.

I need your help with Ant. He won't understand." "I don't understand. This is America. How can this be happening to us?" "Hard times," Elsa said. "That's a darn lie." "Language, Loreda," Mom said tiredly.

As she passed a café filled with German