Quotes About Language

you must pick your words very carefully and be sure to say just what you intend to say.

Bolje upasti u rije? nego u bunar.

I never knew words could be so confusing," Milo said to Tock as he bent down to scratch the dog's ear. "Only when you use a lot to say a little," answered Tock.

That was all many years ago," she continued; "but they never appointed a new Which, and that explains why today people use as many words as they can and think themselves very wise for doing so. For always remember that while it is wrong to use too few, it is often far worse to use too many.

You see," continued the minister, bowing thankfully to the duke, "Dictionopolis is the place where all the words in the world come from. They're grown right here in our orchards.

For always remember that while it is wrong to use too few, it is often far worse to use too many.

today people use as many words as they can and think themselves very wise for doing so, For always remember that while it is wrong to use too few, it is often far worse to use too many.

In this box are all the words I know,' he said. 'Most of them you will never need, some you will use constantly, but with them you may ask all the questions which have never been answered and answer all the questions which have never been asked. All the great books of the past and all the ones yet to come are made from these words. With them, there is no obstacle you cannot overcome. All you must learn to do is use them well and in the right places.

Words and numbers are of equal value, for, in the cloak of knowledge, one is warp and the other woof.

Paul said you pray in tongues to edify yourself. He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself (1 Cor. 14:4). To edify means build yourself up. Speaking in tongues builds you to the point that you can believe God instead of circumstances.

The words you speak show exactly the shape that your inner man is in.

The Bible says, For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God (1 Cor. 14:2). By speaking in tongues, you speak directly to God, bypassing all human reasonings.

Of course there are two sides to the question. Let us look at the other. We often hear "shop-girls" spoken of. No such persons exist. There are girls who work in shops. They make their living that way. But why turn their occupation into an adjective? Let us be fair. We do not refer to the girls who live on Fifth Avenue as "marriage-girls.

And most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another, being oft associated, until not even obituary notices them do part.

We often hear shop-girls spoken of. No such persons exist. There are girls who work in shops. They make their living that way. But why turn their occupation into an adjective? Let us be fair. We do not refer to the girls who live on Fifth Avenue as marriage-girls.

action of the brain. It seemed easy to me. I never once mistook his finger for the bay. I'll bet that if he had used the phrases: Gaze, as it were, unpreoccupied, outward—or rather laterally—in the direction of the horizon, underlaid, so to speak, with the adjacent fluid inlet, and Now, returning—or rather, in a manner, withdrawing your attention, bestow it upon my upraised digit—I'll bet, I say, that Henry James himself could have passed the examination.

When a society decays, it is language that is first to become gangrenous. As a result, social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings

La palabra del hombre es hija de la muerte. Hablamos porque somos mortales: las palabras no son signos. Son años. Al decir lo que dicen los nombres que decimos dicen tiempo: nos dicen, somos hombres del tiempo. Conversar es humano.

Los ojos se cierran, las palabras se abren.

Entre el lenguaje, ser por naturaleza social, y el escritor, que sólo engendra en la soledad, se establece así una relación muy extraña: gracias al escritor el lenguaje amorfo, horizontal, se yergue e individualiza; gracias al lenguaje, el escritor moderno, rotas las otras vías de comunicación con su pueblo y su tiempo, participa en la vida de la Ciudad.

How to speak, oh Dream, your silence out loud?

The associations of signs, whether it be strong or weak, is what distinguishes us humans from the other animals. Rather, it is what makes us complex, problematical, and unpredictable beings.

There was only one huge world with no back to it A world like a sun One day it broke into tiny pieces They were the words of the language we now speak Pieces that will never come together Broken mirrors where the world sees itself shatterered

Armed with the arms of summer you come into my room come into my mind and untie the river of language look at yourself in these hurried words Bit by bit the day burns out over the erasing landscape your shadow is a land of birds the sun scatters with a wave from "THE ARMS OF SUMMER