2,489 Quotes About Language

I have managed not to finish certain books. With barely a twinge of conscience, I hurl down what bores me or doesn't give what I crave: ecstasy, transcendence, a thrill of mysterious connection. For, more than anything else, readers are thrill-seekers, though I don't read thrillers, not the kind sold under that label, anyway. They don't thrill; only language thrills.

Translation software is not making translators obsolete. Has medical diagnostic software made doctors obsolete?

I think it simply comes down to fantasy being the language I speak. While I cannot get into epic sword and sorcery, I see the world as having the potential to be slightly off-kilter. I have run into people who do not quite seem human – though of course they are – and have been privy to coincidences that almost make me believe in magic. Fantasy is sometimes just asking yourself, “Well, what if you are wrong? What if the world doesn’t work the way you think? What would that mean?

But language is wine upon his lips

To deny access to translation and interpreting services oppresses human rights and violates laws.

Of the 193 recognized countries in the world, only politically isolated North Korea is considered monolingual.

নক্ষত্রপুঞ্জের মতো জলজ্বলে পতাকা উড়িয়ে আছো আমার সত্তায়।মমতা নামের প্রুত প্রদেশের শ্যামলিমা তোমাকে নিবিড়ঘিরে রয় সর্বদাই। কালো রাত পোহানোর পরের প্রহরেশিউলিশৈশবে 'পাখী সব করে রব' ব'লে মদনমোহনতর্কালঙ্কার কী ধীরোদাত্ত স্বরে প্রত্যহ দিতেন ডাক। ...তুমি আর আমি,অবিচ্ছিন্ন পরস্পর মমতায় লীন,ঘুরেছি কাননে তাঁ নেচে নেচে, যেখানে কুসুম-কলি সবইফোটে, জোটে অলি ঋতুর সংকেতে।আজন্ম আমার সাথী তুমি,আমাকে স্বপ্নের সেতু দিয়েছিলে গ'ড়ে পলে পলে,তাইতো ত্রিলোক আজ সুনন্দ জাহাজ হয়ে ভেড়েআমারই বন্দরে।

...language always occurs in a context - you can speak Elizabethan words, but to speak the language you have to put on the mindset...

My Japanese isn’t much better today, but at least now I appreciate my duality more than when I was a punk kid.