Quotes About Language

Las palabras tenían importancia.

Do you think God speaks Arabic or Hebrew? Can he hear your prayers or mine?"... "I do not know." "What do you think, Nabi?" The boy thought about this for a long time before replying. "I think God must speak all the languages." His tone was confident. "I think he can heal all of us.

Vy na samom dele ne russkaya, ne tak li?

Vy priexali suda so svoyey docher'yu?

have a habit of me mettre le doigt dans l'oeil —um, putting my foot in my mouth sometimes.

Some people are story collectors. While others collect seashells, or stuffed animals, or stamps, story collectors wrap themselves in words, surround themselves with sentences, and play with participle, even those pesky, perky dangling ones. They climb over Cs and mount Ms and lounge in Ls. Soon enough they land in the land of homonyms, then, wham! They stumble into onomatopoeia, that lovely creaking, booming bit of wordplay - and that, Dear Friend, is where our story begins.

French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me.

You know, you don't see with your eyes You see with your brain And the more words your brain has The more things you can see

I'm not well read, but when I do read, I read well. I don't have the time to translate what I understand in the form of conversation. I had exhausted most conversation at age 9. I only feel with grunts, screams and tones and with hand gestures and my body. I'm deaf in spirit.

Birds scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth, but sadly we don't speak bird.

The more I think about language, the more it amazes me that people ever understand each other at all.

There is a difference between a thing and talking about a thing.

Sprache ist eine Waffe. Haltet sie scharf.

Wie wird das eigentlich mit der Sprache?" fragte die Prinzessin, als wir im Zug nach Helsingör saßen. "Du warst doch schon mal da. Sprichst du denn nun gut schwedisch?" »Ich mache das so«, sagte ich. »Erst spreche ich deutsch, und wenn sie das nicht verstehn, englisch, und wenn sie das nicht verstehn, platt - und wenn das nichts hilft, dann hänge ich an die deutschen Wörter die Endung as an, und dieses Sprech-as verstehas sie ganz gut.«

The poems were cool. The best ones were like bombs, and when all the right words came together it was like an explosion.

And, like many philosophers, I am of the school that what goes without saying often goes even better with saying.)

En los textos antiguos, "explícito" significaba "repentino" e "inesperado". ¿Lo sabías?

And the American people…" His voice faded for a moment. "They faint if someone uses insensitive language in their presence and half of them couldn't run up a set of stairs if you put a gun to their heads. What'll happen if the real shit hits the fan?

Claudia Gould's native French but Anna's answer was in English. It had become a battle of wills between her and her mother.

KREMLIN in your language means fortress inside a city, but most people don't know this.

MADRID SPAIN

It turned out the international language wasn't love—it was fear.

Miss Amesbury is especially happy in the use of quotations—and an apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

Come on, it's an American tradition. Apple soup? Mom's homemade chicken pie?' She chuckled in spite of herself, then winced. 'It's apple pie and Mom's homemade chicken soup. But you didn't do badly, for a start.