There is absolutely nothing feminine about the colour pink, or, anything bad-luck’ish about the colour black — in itself.

Body language has no translation.

I can’t relate to lazy people. We don’t speak the same language. I don’t understand you. I don’t want to understand you.

Energy is the universal language of Nature; Nature is the universal source of information.

Why no s for two deer,but an s for two monkeys?Brother Quang saysno one knows.So much for rules!Whoever invented English should be bitten by a snake.

The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.

Language is the expression of ideas by means of speech-sounds combined into words. Words are combined into sentences, this combination answering to that of ideas into thoughts.

Kids use words in ways that release hidden meanings, revel the history buried in sounds. They haven’t forgotten that words can be more than signs, that words have magic, the power to be things, to...

By the way I also would say “I got a book.” But your teacher and I are not “English teachers” in the same sense. She has to put across an idea of what the English...

Words are little houses, each with its cellar and garret. Common-sense lives on the ground floor, always ready to engage in “foreign commerce” on the same level as the others, as the passers-by, who are...

Break the ice, or draw that which lives in the dimness out into the full light of speech – what happens is the same: that which is now seen and now grasped is not, in...

Language is the proper way to communicate, followed closely by five balled up fingers forming a fist and flying at a face. Violence is never the answer—unless the question is: What the fuck are you...

You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.

And if Germans do have systematic minds, this is just as likely to be because their exceedingly erratic mother tongue has exhausted their brains’ capacity to cope with any further irregularity

Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise.

A metaphor is not merely a linguistic expression (a form of words) used for artistic or rhetorical purposes; instead, it is a process of human understanding by which we achieve meaningful experience that we can...

It is hard to say anything as true as saying nothing.

Out of 1.6 billion Muslims, perhaps only 300 million actually understand the language of the Koran.

When a society decays, it is language that is first to become gangrenous. As a result, social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings

You know I very much respect Yvonne Rainer, she is very important – in American dance, the entire development of modern dance, and creating a wonderful physical language.

Words have power.

The language of the universe is not math, but physics.

I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.

Love had to be deeper than that, than a glance over tea, which was indicative but not dispositive.

I found in investigative journalism it is always best, if you have any language skills, not to admit them.

But isn’t this a dance? Isn’t all of this a dance? Isn’t that what we do with words? Isn’t that what we do when we talk, when we spar, when we make plans or leave...

Yesterday’s abomination is today’s rule.

The fisherman of the Colombian coast must be learned doctors of ethics and morality, for they invented the word sentipensante, or ‘feeling-thinking’ to define language that speaks the truth. Eduardo Galeano

Humans are so innately hardwired for language that they can no more suppress their ability to learn and use language than they can suppress the instinct to pull a hand back from a hot surface.

One out of four students that we have in the county schools speak another first language. It’s helpful to have bilingual teachers to be able to communicate with parents. In some cases, the students may...

Music is its own language – if you don’t speak it, it’s hard to say what you’re trying to do.

Isn’t language amazing? I can’t get over it. Sometimes you can just say things and its like a bomb that blows all your clothes off and suddenly there you are naked. I don’t know if...

Language is the dress of thoughts.

I realized that lacking the feminine, the language had communicated to me in subtle ways that women were nonentities, that women counted mostly as they related to men.

We gave you a perfectly good language and you f***ed up.

Literature in the written sense represents the triumph of language over writing: the subversion of writing for purposes that have little or nothing to do with social and economic control.

If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of...

The language in this version appeals more to organizations than individual users, especially concerning patents. There is more reference to suing companies that don’t respect the license.

Each of us carries a room within ourselves, waiting to be furnished and peopled, and if you listen closely, you may need to silence everything in your own room, you can hear the sounds of...

Once upon a time there were two countries, at war with each other. In order to make peace after many years of conflict, they decided to build a bridge across the ocean.But because they never...

The past is always tense, the future perfect.

Beware of the compound adjective, beloved of the tyro and the ‘poetess’.

Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say infinitely when you mean very; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

If two thousand five hundred languages are to be lost in the course of the twenty-first century, don’t be in any doubt about what that means for us: in each of those two thousand five...

De todos los idiomas europeos el que resulta más difícil de hablar bien a mi entender es sin duda el español, tal es su riqueza de palabras, rotaciones lingüísticas y belleza expresiva. Ocurre sin embargo...

Nature is a word, an allegory, a mold, an embossing, if you will.

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe. It is as if forces we can lay claim to in...

Non per forza, non per arme, non per essere altri obbligati a saperla, ma solamente per la bellezza e leggiadria sua è da forestiere genti amata, imparata, onorata in tal guisa che nel comune parlare...

Now we have come full circle to the subtitle of this book: children learn by unlearning other languages. Viewed in the Darwinian light, all humanly possible grammars compete to match the language spoken in the...

ahthOOn SSyng!” I said. “That’s farewell.””It sounds evil.””It is,” I answered, and we parted.