Quotes About Language

Prayer is the language of a man burdened with a sense of need.

English is the result of Norman men-at-arms attempting to pick up Saxon barmaids and is no more legitimate than any of the other results.

Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one.

In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.

If language naturally evolves to serve the needs of tiny rodents with tiny rodent brains, then what's unique about language isn't the brilliant humans who invented it to communicate high-level abstract thoughts. What's unique about language is that the creatures who develop it are highly vulnerable to being eaten.

At the ATM they ask if you'd like to conduct your business in English or Spanish. I suggest you try Spanish, because your account balance will look much better in pesos.

Nothing is said which has not been said before.

The syntactical nature of reality, the real secret of magic, is that the world is made of words. And if you know the words that the world is made of, you can make of it whatever you wish.

There is a transcendental dimension beyond language... It's just hard as hell to talk about!

Why is abbreviation such a long word?

Noses run. Feet smell.

Why is it that a man with hair on his head has more hair than a man with hairs on his head?

It feels sadder when a black person says Nigga Because it sounds like Nigger.

Nothing saddens me more Than Nigger, one whose master has no Lord. No word leaves me more graced by shame.

Use "and," never "but." "But" cancels out whatever came before it. "And" is roomy enough for all of your many feelings.

Children's minds need not innately embody language structures, if languages embody the predispositions of children's minds!

Her asterisks are daft, postscripts redundant, and prose parenthetical.

Grammar stops at love, and at art.

He came up and, with a broad Australian accent, said, "G'day, mate." Uh-oh, I thought. I'm in trouble.

Your life tomorrow will be determined by the words you speak today.

All the reading of weight-loss books and purchasing of fitness equipment won't change a thing until you first guard your words.

Change What You're Saying and You'll Change What You're Seeing

When you get to a place in your life where it appears nothing is going in your favor, your circumstances seem hopeless and you have no indication that things will ever change; however, you say with great assurance, "I BELIEVE" then you better get ready, you are speaking the language of God!

POSH Before air-conditioning, cabins on the side of ocean liners facing the sun became unbearably hot. Thus richer passengers paid a premium to have their tickets on the P&O Line from England to India stamped "Port Out—Starboard Home." So p.o.s.h. became a synonym for someone who was upper class. PULL