Quotes About Language

In a world of words, anything is possible...

Every person is bound to make the first impression with the help of words

Violence is the repartee of the illiterate

There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.

I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.

A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.

Writing in a foreign language - has brought me to the cries of the women silently rebelling in my youth, to my own true origins.

English was good enough for Jesus Christ and it's good enough for the children of Texas.

If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink.

I get along with all the women singers, but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly language.

The moral disposition of the age appears in the refinement of conversation.

More men feel comfortable doing "public speaking," while more women feel comfortable doing "private" speaking.

I like the idea of there being times when even words cost so much you used them sparingly. I have known a lot of old men and women who talked as if they were paying Western Union by the word.

You can't cuss on TV. It does hurt your brand if you do stuff like that. That's not what blue chip sponsors are looking for.

Speech is one of the marvels that characterize man, and also one of the most difficult spontaneous creations that have been accomplished by nature.

Gag me with a spoon!

Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards?

'See Spot run!' is a perfect sentence in some ways. But I doubt the critics would say it was.

English has always had a special fondness for other European languages, a neighborly soft spot - perhaps because Britain has been invaded by speakers of those languages from the onset of its recorded history.

Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud out, spread into leaves, and become big branches, proliferating.

A feature of English that makes it different compared with all other languages is its global spread.

Instrumental music can spread the international language.

As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and is in no better case than a constructed language.