2,489 Quotes About Language

Whenever someone throws a tantrum I usually duck. Other times I goose. But I never quail or chicken out.

Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.

The Biblical language was so deeply embedded in the great man's mind that it became his normal way of speaking.

Ah—that’s the beauty of higher education, sergeant. Never use two simple words when one really complicated one will do.

I remember reading once that some fellows use language to conceal thought; but it's been my experience that a good many more use it instead of thought.

The locust has no kingJust noise and hard languageThey talk me over

The words a person reads and hears and repeats become his own, enter his verbal storehouse. When needed they become, even if he does not know it, the clothing for the thoughts to which he gives birth.

Sports just happen to be excellent for avoiding foreign-language stage fright and developing lasting friendships while still sounding like Tarzan.

Poetry is less a respecter of individual persons than it is a compassionate witness to the meanings of the secret language that beats inside human hearts, the music that pulses through human cries, and the divinity which shines love beyond the veils of human limitations.