Let your feelings flow and the scribbled words stay as a sovereign of the moment.

If I could talk it like Dahoum, you would never be tired of listening to me.

I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.

Public speaking is done in the public tongue, the national or tribal language; and the language of our tribe is the men’s language. Of course women learn it. We’re not dumb. If you can tell...

the revolt against brutality begins with a revolt against the language that hides that brutality.

Dad says there are more than three thousand letters in the Japanese alphabet, which could pose a problem. There are only twenty-six letters in the English alphabet, and I get into enough trouble with them...

A teacher of mine once said there are no true synonyms.

A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.

One must not be shy where language is concerned.

He called it potentia because there’s nothing quite like Latin for disguising the fact you’re making it up as you go along.

We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.

Language also acts like love in form.

A Blessing on the PoetsPatient earth-digger, impatient fire-maker,Hungry word-taker and roving sound-lover,Sharer and saver, muser and acher,You who are open to hide or uncover,Time-keeper and –hater, wake-sleeper, sleep-waker;May language’s language, the silence that liesUnder each...

Two: one to decidewhat to change it into and one to decide what kind of bulbemits broken light.

As he once wrote of Kipling, his own enduring influence can be measured by a number of terms and phrases—doublethink, thought police, ‘Some animals are more equal than others’—that he embedded in our language and...

They had nothing in common but the English language, and tried by its help to express what neither of them understood.

It is true that if care is taken to use only a language that it’s understood by graduates in law and economics, you can easily prove that the masses have to be managed from above.

I fell in love the moment I saw her in her grandfather’s kitchen, her dark curls crashing over her Portuguese shoulders. ‘Would you like to drink coffee?’ she smiled.’I’m really not that thirsty.”What? What you...

Music is the Universal Language that allows all people to communicate with each other.

Every writer dreams of a perfect language. Every writer dreams of a language that obeys, that comes to heel. For some this language is spare and pure, pared down to reveal essential truths without ornament...

It may be a silly way, but if you remember that an owl looks like ʌ(OO)ʌ, it will perhaps help you remember that it is pronounced with something close to ‘ʌoo’.

I once saw a small child go to an electric light switch as say, “Mamma, can I open the light?” She was using the age-old language of exploration, the language of art. It was a...

A translator, caught in the space between two tongues. Such people tend to come a little bit unglued from the task of trying to convey meaning from one code to the other. The transfer is...

I still believe in man in spite of man. I believe in language even though it has been wounded, deformed, and perverted by the enemies of mankind. And I continue to cling to words because...

The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways...

But suppose it was truth double strong, it were no truth to me if I couldna take it in. I daresay there’s truth in yon Latin book on your shelves; but it’s gibberish and no...

An important United Nations environmental conference went past 6:00 in the evening when the interpreters’ contracted working conditions said they could leave. They left, abandoning the delegates unable to talk to each other in their...

We’re on the border of this world, speaking a common language. That’s all.

I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.

The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second.

Kao da ga je ugušila neizrečena rečenica”, rekao je neko kasnije, na sahrani ili, možda, u crkvi, dok su čekali sveštenika. (Kraj života)

The strange word nymphomation, used to denote a complex mathematical procedure where numbers, rather than being added together or multiplied or whatever, were actually allowed to breed with each other to produce new numbers.

One day the English language is going to perish. The easy spokenness of it will perish and go black and crumbly — maybe — and it will become a language like Latin that learned people...

There, in the silence that’s never quite silent, I realized that, if there are at least seven thousand wants to speak, there are at least seven thousand ways to listen.

I am starting to talk fast now, and I have to remember to slow down because when I get excited, I start to sound like myself and my American accent goes away.

Great.”They’d trimmed the language to its essentials. Before long it would just be consonants. Then silence.

…there are no sweeter words in the English language (or any other) than husband and wife.

Writing engenders in us certain attitudes toward language. It encourages us to take words for granted. Writing has enabled us to store vast quantities of words indefinitely. This is advantageous on the one hand but...

The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book- a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished...

We can only think in a language that we master.

Then I speak to her in a language she has never heard, I speak to her in Spanish, in the tongue of the long, crepuscular verses of Díaz Casanueva; in that language in which Joaquín...

It is true that language is a medium of communication. But most of the people don’t know and they are applying it as tools of hurting others .

When you steal a people’s language, you leave their soul bewildered.

China is having a tough time figuring out what the language is to allow them to back off.

The language in there, I think, is fairly telling as far as his opinion of what occurred there, and how it occurred, and what action we should or should not have taken,

The incapacity to name is a good symptom of disturbance.

Sometimes, language is the sound of longing

Even if you become fluent in a second language, you don’t understand it the same as the language you grew up with and that your mother spoke to you in.

Czy więc nic nigdy nie może zostać naprawdę wyrażone, oddane w swoim stawaniu się anonimowym, nikt nigdy nie zdoła oddać bełkotu rodzącej się chwili, jak to jest, że, urodzeni z chaosu nie możemy nigdy z...

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