Language Quotes - Page 65

I am a writer, I deal in words. There is no word that should stay in word jail, every word is completely free. There is no word that is worse than another word. It's all language, it's all communication.

A writer can have only one language, if language is going to mean anything to him.

Further, I'm obsessed with how language contorts and creates bodies.

Although I'm not fluent in sign language by a long way, I could have a fairly decent conversation.

I often focus more on language than on the conveying of information.

If someone tried to assimilate you for years, if your language was forbidden, if the names of your hometown were changed, what would do you but revolt.

Nobody is capable of of free speech unless he knows how to use language, and such knowledge is not a gift: it has to learned and worked at.

Plainly, children learn their language. I don't speak Swahili. And it cannot be that my language is 'an innate property of our brain.' Otherwise I would have been genetically programmed to speak (some variety of) English.

Language, as well as the faculty of speech, was the immediate gift of God.

There iz no alternativ. Every possible reezon that could ever be offered for altering the spelling of wurds, stil exists in full force; and if a gradual reform should not be made in our language, it wil proov that we are less under the influence of reezon than our ancestors.

People in Finland have also adopted me because of my dad, and that's great, but it's the one language I can't speak.

We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate of matrimony.

I'm inspired by playwrights, novelists, poets: The value of language has been a lifelong passion of mine. I enjoy it. I'm good at it.

Fashion is an instant language.

I type a 101 words a minute. But it's in my own language.

Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast.

Unlike the ambiguity of life, the ambiguity of language does reach a limit.

English has borrowed from everywhere and now goes everywhere.

Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape.

A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax; no greater liability than a command of language.

It is terrible to see someone being beaten up by the English language.

The C language combines all the power of assembly language with all the ease-of-use of assembly language.

I couldn't live without music. I experienced things through music in different countries where you cannot speak the same language, but the music and the dance relates everything.

I write on a visual canvas, 'seeing' a scene in my thoughts before translating it into language, so I'm a visual junkie.

To know a language intimately is to understand the soul of those who speak it.