2,489 Quotes About Language

I had always found it unpleasant to have guests in my apartment. They filled up my rooms with strange sentences I would never have formulated in such a way. Today I found the sound of these sentences particularly unbearable. Sometimes I tried to follow only the sense of the conversation so as not to hear the sounds of the language. But they penetrated my body as though they were inseparable from the sense.

Emojis are by no means taking away from our written language but rather accentuating it by providing a tone that words on their own often cannot. They are, in a sense, the most evolved form of punctuation we have at our disposal.

Si tu parles français, et si bien, tu es déjà un superb musicien. Le bon français est si pareil a la musique à mes oreilles.

There should be a word for empathy like sympathy's sorry.

If, as Proust suggests, we are obliged to create our own language, it is because there are dimensions to ourselves absent from clichés, which require us to flout etiquette in order to convey with greater accuracy the distinctive timbre of our thought.

As long as I could connect every new thing I learned to this universe, I had an easy time with math.And I noticed that classmates who had problems with math weren’t struggling with math; they werestruggling with connections. They were trying to memorize equations, but no one had successfullyshown them how those equations connect with everything they had already learned. They weredoomed

They learned the hard way – or not at all – that language is like fire: Depending on how you use it, it can either heat your house or burn it to the ground.

And you are right.” He had a wry tone to his voice. “Which I am sure you are going to lord over me.” “I don’t know.” Ginger opened her eyes and tried to match him. “Can one ‘lady it over’ someone?”“My lady, I believe you do that all the time.”“Ah … but I’m not a lady, am I? Simply an American.”“Well, you can definitely American it over someone.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant...' is Emily Dickinson's advice....I've been struck by how often slant is confused with bias - as though having a point of view, a set of assumptions, or a firmly held opinion is in itself unscrupulous or unfair. And as though neutrality is the mark of fairness or truth.