Quotes About Language

Words are the counters of wise men, but the money of fools.

Environmentalists changed the word jungle to rain forest, because no one would give them money to save a jungle. Same with swamps and wetlands.

We say that money talks, but it speaks a broken, poverty-stricken language. Hearts talk better, clearer, and with wider intelligence.

Language is a virus, money is a nasty disease.

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Some guys said 'Here's bop!' Wham! They said, 'Here's something we can make money on!' Wham! 'Here's a comedian!' Wham! Here's a guy who talks funny talk!'

The language of labels is like paper money, issued irresponsibly, with nothing of intrinsic value behind it, that is, with no effort of the intelligence to see, to really apprehend.

The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.

Money is a kind of poetry.

Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words.

Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money.

To money, the finest linguist in the world!

My worst holiday was in Athens when I was a young drama student at Rada in 1965. I ran out of money. I had my things stolen and I wasn't able to speak a word of the language.

Money talks, I record.

When poetry is on the money, 12 words can slay you. I admire that greatly.

Greek is the morning land of languages, and has the freshness of early dew in it which will never exhale.

I vowed to never use my American accent, and I didn't. Even going to get the paper in the morning to buying milk down at the shop, getting a cab, wherever.

I perceived how that it was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother tongue.

The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner.

For us Indians, I don't think English can ever exude that magic of emotions which our mother tongue can.

I think it's important to be sincere. And I could be the most sincere just staying in [my] mother language actually. And that's the reason why I stay composing and writing in French.

This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.

I am not ashamed to reply to you in my mother tongue, however imperfectly, and am glad to be able to show that my fatherland means more to me than anything else

Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language.