2,489 Quotes About Language

Truth for anyone is a very complex thing. For a writer, what you leave out says as much as those things you include. What lies beyond the margin of the text? The photographer frames the shot; writers frame their world.

I have often heard people who might sit with him on the lawn, ask him to translate some of it. But he always refused. One couldn't translate it, he said. It lost so much in the translation that it was better not to try. It was far wiser not to attempt it. If you undertook to translate it, there was something gone, something missing immediately.

The nurturing of moral is the language, and control of the ego is the eye of the soul.

Parlez-vous français, madame?”“Oui,” I said warily, certain that this conversation was taking a multilingual turn for the worse.

Eyes and sex understand and know every language, without any distinction.

How does it happen, thought Ciri, what can it be ascribed to, that in all worlds, places and times, in all languages and dialects that one word always sounds comprehensible? And always similar?"Yes. I must ride to my mamma. My mamma is waiting for me.

One can cry and smile, in every language; however, to feel that one needs the feeling, not the words and language.

Unlike most other language — which is stored in cerebral cortex, the brain’s center for higher learning — curse words are stored in the limbic system, our most basic, lizard brain level.

Because she does not express herself in theoretical language, no one expects too much from her and she is used to tripping out on layers of complexity in total silence.