2,489 Quotes About Language

His voice was like soothing melted chocolate. I wanted him to ooze his lovely voice all over my naked body.

We awaken by asking the right questions.

We are the witnesses of a barely perceptible transformation in ordinary language: verbs which formerly expressed satisfying actions have been replaced by nouns which name packages designed for passive consumption only -- 'to learn' becomes 'to accumulate credits'.

If you just need something to talk, let's talk in baby language. ba-ba la-la da-da ha-ha. I don't want you to ride the vehicle of words. I want you to stay with me fully in the present moment.

Gods were preserved but languages were exterminated: thus was the conqueror’s will

[Y]ou possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.

So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won’t do in your essays.

Writing is one method of dealing with being human or wanting to suicide cause in order to write you kill yourself at the same time while remaining alive.

We often say a lot about ourselves by saying only a few words, or nothing at all.