2,489 Quotes About Language

Always remember we don’t own the words. We are merely guests in the house of a language.

I know who you are though in a moment I will not. It is getting. I do not remember the word. Soon it will be. How easily they go again. There is no loyalty in language. There is no.

He wondered suddenly and definitely for the first time in his life what words might be. Sounds and sense certainly, but something else also, a kind of natural music that explained a man’s heart or heartlessness, words as tempered as steel, as soft as air.

I noticed that women have a private language. A language not dependent on the constructions of men but structured by signs and expressions, and that uses ordinary words as code-words meaning something other.

Comment sections on the internet are like gang graffiti, abusive words sprayed like gibberish and it's ugly to look at.

He loved words, and he would admit that he was playing with them all the time. He was obsessive about the rhythm of the sentence, and would add a word, subtract a word. [about Truman Capote]

...photography is an ellipse of language and a condensation of an ‘ineffable’ society...

No human utterance could be seen as innocent. Any set of words could be analysed to reveal not just an individual but a historical consciousness at work.

მასთან თუ ვარ, ვჩუმდები, რადგან ყველაზე პატარა სიტყვები: ჰო, ახლავე, ასე, და, მაგრამ, მერე, ვაი! - ძალიან დატვირთულია, ივანისთვის ასმაგი მნიშვნელობით ითქმის, ათასჯერ უფრო მეტი მნიშვნელობა აქვს, ვიდრე სიტყვიერ პაექრობებს, სახალისო ამბებს თუ ანეგდოტებს, რომლებიც ჩემგან მეგობრებს ან სხვა ადამიანებს სმენიათ, და ჟესტებს, კაპრიზებს, მოჩვენებით საქციელებს, რადგან ივანისთვის მოსაჩენებელი არაფერი მაქვს, არაფერს ვაკეთებ თავის მოსაჩვენებლად.