Quotes about Language

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Missing someone, they say, is self-centered.I self-center you more than ever. — Saša Stanišić, How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone
One of the most frustrating words in the human language, as far as I could tell, was love.So much meaning attached to th — Alexandra Adornetto, Halo
The language of love letters is the same as suicide notes. — Courtney Love, Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney Love
Language is the key to the heart of people. — Ahmed Deedat
You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect. — John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
I have written it before and am not ashamed to write it again. Without Wodehouse I am not sure that I would be a tenth o — Stephen Fry
All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess — Marcel Duchamp
A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any othe — Henry David Thoreau, Walden
I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me. — Matt Groening
Meow” means “woof” in cat. — George Carlin
Anyone can speak Troll. All you have to do is point and grunt. — J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
It is very useful, when one is young, to learn the difference between "literally" and "figuratively." If something happe — Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning
Dearest creature in creation,Study English pronunciation.I will teach you in my verseSounds like corpse, corps, horse, a — Gerard Nolst Trenité, Drop your Foreign Accent
Alphabet: a symbolic system used in algebra, with applications that have yet to be discovered by dyslexics and two third — Bauvard, Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic
In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making t — Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad
You have to watch your language. People will think you have no fucking class — Lani Diane Rich
Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself-like — Jean Kerr
It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—th — Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot
The menu is not the meal. — Alan W. Watts
A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it — Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations