Quotes about Language

The Luther Bible was to the modern German language what the works of Shakespeare and the King James Bible were to the modern English language. Before Luther's Bible, there was no unified German language.

Sometimes I wonder how my life would have worked out if my books had been translated into English sooner, because English is the language that's spoken worldwide, and when a book appears in English it is made universal, it becomes a global publication.

Word Studies in the Greek New Testament by Kenneth Wuest, 4 Volumes (Eerdmans).

Christian' makes a poor adjective

Whoever dreamed up Scrabble had an exaggerated idea of how many seven-letter words have five i's.

But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?

Wilson has some fancy name for it, but I call lit macanaccady. Anything I can't analyze in the eating line I call macanaccady and anything wet that puzzles me I call shallamagouslem.

Prose, rightly written and read, is sometimes as beautiful as poetry.

In two more years I'll be really grown up. It's a great comfort to think that I'll be able to use big words then without being laughed at." "Ruby

Ama eÄŸer büyük fikirleriniz varsa onlar? ifade edebilmek için büyük kelimeler kullanman?z gerekir, öyle deÄŸil mi?

Words aren't made — they grow," said Anne.

A man of true science... thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.