Quotes About Language

We live not only in a world of thoughts, but also in a world of things. Words without experience are meaningless

Two interesting characteristics distinguished Leonard Blorenge, Chairman of French Literature and Language; he disliked Literature and he had no French.

We are absurdly accustomed to the miracle of a few written signs being able to contain immortal imagery, involutions of thought, new worlds with live people, speaking, weeping , laughing... I wish you to gasp not only at what you read but at the miracle of its being readable.

Her mind kept fading in the growing mist. She still could speak. She paused, and groped, and found What seemed at first a serviceable sound, But from adjacent cells impostors took The place of words she needed, and her look Spelt imploration as she sought in vain To reason with the monsters in her brain.

Biliriz ki bu arada denilerek an?lan Avustralya aksanl? yabanc? yada komik bir hobisi olan Amca birazdan sahneye gelmeyecek olsalar, adlar? piyeste hiç geçmeyecekti. Gerçekten de bu arada sözü, basmakal?p edebiyat?n masonik simgesi, an?lan kiÅŸinin asl?nda piyesin ana karakeri olduÄŸunu göreceÄŸimizin kesin emaresidir.

How would you say "delightful talk" in Russian?' 'How would you say "good night"?' Oh, that would be: Bessónnitza, tvoy vzor oonýl i stráshen; lubóv' moyá, otstóopnika prostée. (Insomnia, your stare is dull and ashen, my love, forgive me this apostasy.)

The Russian reader in old cultured Russia was certainly proud of Pushkin and of Gogol, but he was just as proud of Shakespeare or Dante, of Baudelaire or of Edgar Allan Poe, of Flaubert or of Homer, and this was the Russian reader's strength. I have a certain personal interest in the question, for if my fathers had not been good readers, I would hardly be here today, speaking of these matters in this tongue.

the evolution of sense, in a sense, is the evolution of non sense

Today, one hardly talks about strategy without using the language of competition.

One of the calamities of Christianity is our tendency to talk in ambiguous generalities.

Poetry is the human soul entire Squeezed like a lemon or a lime, Drop by drop into atomic words".

Then it was that books began to happen to me, and I began to believe in nothing but books and the wonderful world in books where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas.

You have to watch your language. People will think you have no fucking class

Truthful words are not beautiful beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive persuasive words are not good.

If my mom reads that I'm grammatically incorrect I'll have hell to pay.

Fuck a motherfucking fuckduck" - Wraith

Traditional grammar

Never hire anyone who starts a sentence with the word "Dude!" and never work for a guy who doesn't know the difference between mute and moot

Mrs Penn Montague, who spoke six languages, rose every day at four in the afternoon.

There's also a certain rhythm to the way Jews talk that might be funny.

Religion doesn't play any part in my life in terms of how I live my life. But I don't think I've ever gone through a day in my life without hearing someone say the word 'Jew' or saying it myself.

We need programs that will teach athletes how to spell 'jump shot' rather than how to shoot it.

Don't utilize utilize. Use use.

I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.