Quotes About Language

Stop saying "right" to me. I'm starting to feel hostile.

Now that's an Okay that really means Okay, not that Okay that women use that means everything but Okay.

A smattering of English is worse than useless; it is an unnecessary tax on our women.

Men use women sexually. They use them, mistreat them, even from the point of view of vocabulary, the use of words. It baffles me.

Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'

Women tend to double-speak - I'm definitely guilty of that.

No man with any sense assumes that a woman's words mean to her exactly what they mean to him.

You can't address yourself to women by speaking a language which no average woman will understand. In my opinion, it's wrong.

I really love cursing a lot. But as I get older, I realize it's a little unseemly for women of a certain age.

The category "Women Poets" is bizarre and irrelevant. It's a subcategory of Poets, but there is not a "Men Poets" category.

He also knew the language of The Klingons, but the army had no use for it.

Yes I am aware of the rules. Yes I can totally see how I err the Queen.Yes it is this very fact of slaying her language.That gives my soul its melodies.

Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself-like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.

Miscommunication is endless.

Many speak to her but she's looking for the one who knows her souls language.

Only the ones whose hearts have been conquered by LOVE know the secret language of the eyes. Leave trails of love today, perhaps others might be brave enough to follow

Women, oh, women! They'll find the baddest meanin' in your words an' hold it up, sayin', Look what you attacked me with!

How can an adjective in front of a noun not describe the noun? There are dwarf stars, but they're still considered stars.

I entirely agree with you about the obscurity of Mrs Browning's line about the stars. It is far-fetched. She wanted to express something which she found beyond expression.

The first question is always, 'We loved him on 'Dancing with the Stars,' we loved him in the Olympics, but can he speak English?' Yes I speak English. Yes, I can.

English is my second language, but in Hong Kong, they don't know that I'm from China. They think I'm from Hollywood because all the films they see are from here. China and Hong Kong are very different places, but they're starting to merge. Still the culture is very different.

China is starting an English-speaking television network around the world, Russia is, Al Jazeera. And the BBC is cutting back on its many language services around the world.

Particularly for English people, Shakespeare is always at the forefront of both drama and the English language. He's always been there. I can't remember starting school and not learning about him.

If anything is guaranteed to annoy a lexicographer, it is the journalistic habit of starting a story with a dictionary definition.