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.

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...

The geniuses of all ages and of all lands speak different languages but the same flame burns in them all. Oh, if you only knew what unearthly happiness my soul feels now from being able...

I’m a professor of media studies as well as humanities, and I’m an evangelist of popular culture, but when there’s only media, then there’s going to be a slow debasement of language, and that’s what...

The resulting texts always took a narrative term, enigmatic at first but ultimately explicit and often premonitory. The semantic distribution of these basic elements diverted them from their original meaning, thus revealing their real significance....

A true lady should have the wit and the imagination, or at least the very restraint, to express herself without resorting herself to such base vocabulary.

Sometimes the fluffy bunny of incredulity zooms around the bend so rapidly that the greyhound of language is left, agog, in the starting cage.

Well… “why” is a hard question to answer in any language.

I wish I didn’t need words to speak to her. They sometimes hold very different meanings for us both.

Love is only surpassing sweet when it is directed toward a mortal object, and the secret of this ultimate sweetness only is defined by the bitterness of death. Thus the white peoples of the world...

His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origin of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the overlarge and rather empty...

They say that maths is a language. So how do I order a pizza with extra cheese in maths?

Very few graduates have that combination of skills … many students are shying away from language courses and travelling to places like Indonesia or Malaysia because of the terror warnings.

Love is the essence of life,Love is the universal language of all creation,Love is the eternal desire,Love is the life’s flower with fragrance to share,So feel the longing for love and being beloved.

Oh, bullshit. This isn’t one of those stories, Avice. One moment of cack-handedness, Captain Cook offends the bloody locals, one slip of the tongue or misuse of sacred cutlery, and bang, he’s on the grill....

Whatever the final language, it will be the benchmark of how other negotiations are judged. Since the auto workers won pensions in ’48, a lot of things Detroit has done, for good or for bad,...

The author recognizes the power of the persecuting tribe referring to members of hers consistently as “snakes” or “roaches”. This dehumanizing language, she realizes, seeps into the subconscious and makes it easier to forget that...

As it was all was lost. He was alive, yes, he was alive, he felt this for the first time. But he knew now that he was living in a prison, that he had to...

Hugh Laurie (playing Mr. Palmer) felt the line ‘Don’t palm all your abuses [of language upon me]’ was possibly too rude. ‘It’s in the book,’ I said. He didn’t hit me.

The Holy Bible is the Spirit of God exposed to humanity in the Language of Heaven.

Swearing is industry language. For as long as we’re alive it’s not going to change. You’ve got to be boisterous to get results.

Only big words for ordinary things on account of the sound.

It is precisely, if paradoxically, because reversal is in the service of repetition (so as to ensure, alongside its companion strategies, a dizzying proliferation of citations) that it gains a subversive power rather than remain...

My books are a word feast.

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

There are no barriers to poetry or prophecy; by their nature they are barrier-breakers, bursts of perceptions, lines into infinity. If the poet lies about his vision he lies about himself and in himself; this...

What the critic as a teacher of language tries to teach is not an elegant accomplishment, but the means of conscious life. Literary education should lead not merely to the admiration of great literature, but...

The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost and what is gained in the linguistic transition.

Even English Language doesn’t provide you with the Synonyms of the word Success.

The best translations are always the ones in the language the author can’t read.

She liked the word ineffable because it meant a feeling so big or vast that it could not be expressed in words.And yet, because it could not be expressed in words, people had invented a...

Cat’s friends seemed like very sweet girls,” Dad says.”They were the bomb,” I say fervently, and he looks back at me with raised eyebrows.”‘The bomb’ is a good thing? Like ‘sick’?”Duh,” I reply, and Dad...

Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt. Some say that the main cause of this very serious difficulty...

As basic rules of a language must be practiced continually, and therefore are never fixed, so exercises toward distinct color effects never are done or over. New and different cases will be discovered time and...

When somebody speaks a language that we don’t know, we often imagine that some important things are being said!

[T]he accumulation of things not spelled out, not properly articulated, may result in neurosis.

Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.

It is much easier to learn another language when you are young, enthusiastic and unembarrassed.

Empty words degrade language.

Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at all.

According to [Galway] Kinnell, to make a poem you need the creatures of the world, language, and the unconsious brought together.

Pword is not the privilege of some few persons but the right of everyone

Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

Prose: words in their best order; poetry: the best words in the best order.

I can relate to Marguerite Duras even though I’m not French, nor have I been consumed by love for an East Asian man. I can life inside Alice Munro’s skin. But I can’t relate to...

The speech fascinated him. His ear caught the rhythm of it and he noted their idioms and worked some of them into his patter. He had found the reason behind the peculiar, drawling language of...