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Language Quotes
"Words are the fallen ruins of silent majesty."
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"Because words have deep meaning, Tweets have power."
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"A word is not filling in the gaps, but the fertilization of silence."
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"I know your head aches. I know you're tired. I know your nerves are as raw as meat in a butcher's window. But think what you're trying to accomplish - just think what you're dealing with. The majesty and grandeur of the English language; it's the greatest possession we have. The noblest thoughts that ever flowed through the hearts of men are contained in its extraordinary, imaginative and musical mixtures of sounds. And that's what you've set yourself out to conquer, Eliza. And conquer it you will."
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"Chameleonesque, hobbitish, unicorned, stompled, selfishism, and unwakeable may not be real words, but you do know what they mean."
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"He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that anymore than for pride or fear."
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"Thou shalt not use the 140 characters limit as an excuse for bad grammar and/or incorrect spelling."
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"We suffer from the malady of words, and have no trust in any feeling that is not stamped with its special word."
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"The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words."
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"Where more is meant than meets the ear."
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"English is not merely a language anymore, it has become a way of life for millions of non-native English speakers around the world."
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"Sh!t. F_ck sh!t.'....'Sh!t f_ck would have also been accepted."
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"Great is language . . . . it is the mightiest of the sciences,It is the fulness and color and form and diversity of the earth . . . . and of men and women . . . . and of all qualities and processes;It is greater than wealth . . . . it is greater than buildings or ships or religions or paintings or music."
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"Aye, aye, that's the way wi' thee: thee allays makes a peck o' thy own words out o' a pint o' the Bible's."
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"We, Brandy and Alfa and me, we've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first.I have no native tongue."
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"Our language now has become quick-moving (in syllables), and may be very supple and nimble, but is rather thin in sound and in sense too often diffuse and vague. the language of our forefathers, especially in verse, was slow, not very nimble, but very sonorous, and was intensely packed and concentrated - or could be in a good poet."
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"He used to raise a storm in a teapot."
"All our words from loose using have lost their edge."
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