Quotes About Language

It took seven languages to make me; it would have been nice if I could have spoken just one. But I couldn't, so he leaned down and kissed me.

The whole afternoon might go by without our saying a word. If we do talk, we might never speak in Yiddish. The words of our childhood became strangers to us--we couldn't use them in the same way and so we chose not to use them at all. Life demanded a new language.

en el momento más importante de su vida no había sabido elegir las palabras.

Later - when things happened that they could never have imagined - she wrote him a letter that said: When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything?

Quand apprendras-tu qu'il n'existe pas un mot pour chaque chose ?

Truth...a mobile army of metaphors.

That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts. There is always a kind of contempt in the act of speaking.

to see beauty is to learn the private language of meaning which is another's life - to recognize and relish what is. beauty must be defined as what we are, or else the concept itself is our enemy. why languish in the shadow of a standard we cannot personify, an ideal we cannot live?

english isn't a good language to express emotion through mostly i imagine because people try to speak english instead of trying to speak through it

and neither of them ever said what they meant and i guess nobody ever does

Of the many foundations upon which humans rest, words are probably the most solid.

I say one thing, you write another, and those who read you understand still something else! I say: cross, death, kingdom of heaven, God...and what do you understand? Each of you attaches his own suffering, interests and desires to each of these sacred words, and my words disappear, my soul is lost. I can't stand it any longer!

Toate lucrurile au devenit cuvinte, toate cuvintele au devenit jocuri muzicale È™i acum ultimul om st? la marginea pustiului È™i descompune muzica în ecuaÈ›ii matematice mute.

I say one thing, you write another, and those who read you understand still something else!

La bestia aprovechó para morderle el antebrazo. El mordisco no le rasgó la piel, pero le ocasionó un desagradable moretón púrpura que le duró varios días, momento en el que decidió bautizarla. Le puso Bitch, como les decían en su lengua a las putas.

There iz no alternativ. Every possible reezon that could ever be offered for altering the spelling of wurds, stil exists in full force; and if a gradual reform should not be made in our language, it wil proov that we are less under the influence of reezon than our ancestors. [ This quote illustrates the reformed spelling advocated by Webster .]

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.

the terms of political discourse are designed so as to prevent thought.

There are any number of questions that might lead one to undertake a study of language. Personally, I am primarily intrigued by the possibility of learning something, from the study of language, that will bring to light inherent properties of the human mind.

Language has a creative character: it is typically innovative without bounds, appropriate to circumstance but not caused by them – a crucial distinction – and can engender thoughts in others that they recognise they could have expressed themselves.

Because you cannot study the acquisition or use of language in an intelligent manner without having some idea about this language which is acquired or utilized.

all sorts of considerations determine the truth conditions of a statement, and these go well beyond the scope of grammar.

For example, the difference between Pierre believes he is intelligent and He believes Pierre is intelligent is due to what are called relations of "command": co-reference is impossible if the pronoun is located "higher" in the phrase structure than its nonpronominal antecedent. Now in the second case Pierre is found in a subordinated position, thus "lower" than he, so that they cannot be co-referential in the relevant sense.

The interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.