Language Quotes

Whoa, lady, I only speak two languages, English and bad English.

I am just fascinated by music and I want to know how to identify all the things I love about it; to me music theory is like learning another language and then being able to explain how much you love something more clearly.

Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they’re not attracting attention with it.

What’s the saddest word in the English language? Almost. Almost is never enough.

What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!

This country collects too many tongues, until our only language is silence.

For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.

And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.

I learned that to be amusing was not to be frivolous and that language – always the language – was the magic key as much to prose as to poetry.

When I think about literature, I think about it in the three languages I read easily – English, Spanish, and Portuguese.