Quotes and sayings about tag  #language

Quotes and sayings about tag  language

17 Quotes

Alphabet: a symbolic system used in algebra, with applications that have yet to be discovered by dyslexics and two thirds of college graduates.

Bauvard

The language of love letters is the same as suicide notes.

Courtney Love

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.

Gaston Bachelard

The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary.

Italo Calvino

Anyone can speak Troll. All you have to do is point and grunt.

J.K. Rowling

What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.

Jacques Derrida

Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself-like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.

Jean Kerr

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

John Green

All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess.

Marcel Duchamp

In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

Mark Twain

I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.

Matt Groening

Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.

Muriel Barbery

I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.

Muriel Barbery

Me neither, Shane put in. Homie don’t play that.I wonder, sometimes, if your generation speaks English at all, Amelie said.

Rachel Caine

I am a lover of truth, a worshiper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

Stephen Fry

I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement.

Virginia Woolf

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

Winston S. Churchill

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