language Quotes

A triumph of consciousness-raising has been the homosexual hijacking of the word 'gay.'

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.

Language is wine upon the lips.

Words are loaded pistols.

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.

These poor women in academia have to talk this silly language that nobody can understand in order to be accepted, they think.