Quotes about Language

Words are coin. Words alienate. Language is no medium for desire. Desire is rapture, not exchange. It is only by alienating the desired that language masters it. The frenzy of desire in the medium of words yields the mania of the catalogue. I struggle with the proverbs of hell.

Moer and more he is convinced that English is an unfit medium for the truth in South Africa.

To Slim Gaillard the whole world was just one big orooni.

Begin not from preconceived idea of what to say about image but from jewel center of interest in subject of image at moment of writing, and write outwards swimming in sea of language to peripheral release and exhaustion.

Sometimes, words are twisted and don't reach people in their intended way.

I think the word 'blog' is an ugly word. I just don't know why people can't use the word 'journal.'

If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

I'm not too bad at reading, but I've got a bit of a confidence problem with speaking, with going from Scouse to Spanish.

I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.

England is very interested as well, and other countries if I could speak the languages!

There's a very particular way that the military speaks. There's a lot of profanity and a lot of acronyms.

Speech is the mirror of the soul.