Quotes About Language

The new technique needed a name. They didn't want to just call it "water fracking." That would have been too prosaic, even boring. So they called it "slick water fracturing.

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.

When I was in the ninth grade, I had a teacher in Dallas, Texas, named Elizabeth Enlow in English class. Every Friday, we had to write a little essay, and you had to incorporate three particular words into the story. That was the sole direction. And to me, this was so much fun.

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Maths is like learning a language: you need to learn the basics to get going, but a lot of adults go into blind panic about numbers and switch off.

I think it's not really difficult to write about love. We've been saying the same thing over and over for so many years. But it depends on how honest it is and how good you make it feel. You can say 'I love you' in a trillion ways, and it can always sound different or feel different.

Love is just a word that we've chosen to use to describe something that we can't fully explain. I mean, it's like, as a culture, we've just all agreed on using the term, but I think people get so caught up in the word that they don't allow themselves the privilege to live out what it actually might be.

Language and words for psychopaths are only word deep; there is no emotional colouring behind it. A psychopath can use a word like, 'I love you' but it means nothing more to him than if he said, 'I'll have a cup of coffee.'

Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization.

Summer afternoon – summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

Help! Why is Wednesday spelled like that?

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

They say actions speak louder than words, but actions dont speak. People speak, and people are loud.

We've been taught to believe that actions speak louder than words. But I think words speak pretty loud all of our lives; we carry these words in our head.

It's important to realize that words shape our beliefs and impact our actions.

The sound of the words as they're said is always different from the sound they make when they're heard, because the speaker hears some of the sound from the inside

It is not what you say that matters but the manner in which you say it; there lies the secret of the ages.

After Zorro, people spoke Spanish to me for ages. I'm Welsh but that movie instantly gave me a new ethnicity.

Nothing dates one so dreadfully as to think someplace is uptown. At our age one must be watchful of these conversational gray hairs.

The primary function of the creative use of language - in our age - is to try to constantly restore words to their meanings, to keep the living tissue of responsibility alive.

Young. Old. Just Words.

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.

Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.

What's great is that because math is such a universal language, really, our fans come in all shapes and sizes, all ages and genders and races and backgrounds and cultures.