2,489 Quotes About Language

He spoke Spanish, English, Italian, and just enough of every other language to be able to charm women around the world.

Fire and water and smoke and incense and chanting and bells and butter and blood: this was a language whose syllables were translated into physical terms; a language of the elements. It was a language that he hoped might speak to him one day.

Wortgewalt bedeutet, dass du gewaltige Gefühle in deinen sanftmütigen Worten verpacken kannst, und gleichzeitig bedeutet es, dass du mit deinen Worten gewaltige Gefühle auslösen kannst.

When it comes to correct English, there's no one in charge; the lunatics are running the asylum.

remember that misuse of language can lead to miscommunication, and that miscommunication leads to everything that has ever happened in the whole of the world

Не можна вірити людині, яка змінює мови, як шкарпетки.

No two of us learn our language alike, nor, in a sense, does any finish learning it while he lives.

It is noteworthy, the researcher further argued, that the inscription on the sword was engraved in the Romanian language, and, consequently, we see that Latin was actually Romanian, and not the invented language that for many centuries has passed for ancient Latin.

I'd like to look below my eyes and see not language staring back at me, not sentences or single words or awkward pen lines, but a surface clear and burnished as glass.