2,489 Quotes About Language

What if you could change the scenes happening around you just by moving your legs in a certain way? You can. It's called 'walking'. Human beings have ruined all the wonders of life by giving them names.

Word by word, the language of women so often begins with a whisper.

Mon père ne m'a pas appris la langue des femmes de son peuple.

In Farsi we ask: Haal-e shomaa chetoreh? It is the same: how are you? But when I answer, when I am little, my father never let me say good or okay. Because he says he is asking about the feeling, you know... like, how is your heart?""My heart is happy," I say, "Happy you called.

Wen das Wort nicht schlägt, den schlägt auch der Stock nicht.

They can be like the sun, words.They can do for the heart what light can for a field.

Language has it’s uses but we have started using it as quick and cheap alternative for actions: It takes a lot of effort to make someone feel that you love them. “I love you” is cheap alternative. It takes effort to create study environment at home so that children feel like studying. “Do your homework” is cheap alternative.

I would like to write a suicide note in three and a halflanguagesand travel south on a Thursday towardssome form of life outside of earth

Changing your words can change your world.