Quotes About Language

What if it's an art film with subtitles?" "Then I'll suffer in silence.

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we have BBML. You didn't say anything about BBML." "Possibly because I don't know what

Words are important, to everyone. When they're not said, they leave holes.

Damn skippy." "Who is Skippy? Why are you mad at him?" "It's an expression. Like bet your ass." "People

as efficient as communications' mechanisms become, they are still, as they have always been, subject to the overwhelming tendency for entropy to increase, for information to leak in transit, unless certain external agents are introduced to control it. I have already referred to an interesting view of language made by a cybernetically-minded philologist—that speech is a joint game by the talker and the listener against the forces of confusion.

All the inane, meaningless noises people make that pass for intelligent conversation. They might as well be pigs grunting in the pen. (92)

Seinfeld was the most popular, most transformative live-action show on television. It altered the language and shifted comedic sensibilities, and almost every random episode was witnessed by more people than the 2019 finale of Game of Thrones.

Something that's only metaphorically alive can never be literally dead.

Long ago, lawyers realized that they could make themselves culturally essential if they made the vernacular of contracts too complex for anyone to understand except themselves. They made the language of contracts unreadable on purpose.

Such language, Babette says. Why don't you just take a dump in my ears!

Language, she said, was just our way to explain away the wonder and glory of the world. To deconstruct. To dismiss. She said people can't deal with how beautiful the world really is. How it can't be explained and understood.

Sticks and stones may break your bones but words can hurt like hell.

Sticks and stones may break your bones, but watch out for those damn words.

As the French say, who doesn't like getting their butt sucked?

Imagine a plague you catch through your ears.

They're just words is all. Powerless. Vocabulary. Dialogue.

Sticks and stones will break your bones, but now words can kill, too.

We've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first.

It sounds trite, but only because words make everything true sound trite. Because words always screw up whatever you're trying to say.

Everything sounds so much better when it comes out of a man's mouth

Slang is the writer's palette of colors.

If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. His words, in His Bible. The Book of Genesis, chapter eleven So our God, our all -powerful God got so scared He scattered the human race across the face of the earth, and shattered their language to heep His children apart. An almighty God this insecure? Who pits his children against each other, to keep them weak. This is the God we're supposed to worship?

Language, she said, was just our way to explain away the wonder and the glory of the world. To deconstruct. To dismiss. She said people can't deal with how beautiful the world really is. How it can't be explained and understood.