Language Quotes - Page 12

What other species now require of us is our attention. Otherwise, we are entering a narrative of disappearing intelligences.

I personally believe we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

They say that maths is a language. So how do I order a pizza with extra cheese in maths?

Lentokonesuihkuturbiinimoottoriapumekaanikkoaliupseerioppilas (technical warrant officer trainee specialised in aircraft jet engines)

The men who made the joke saw something deep which they could not express except by something silly and emphatic.

As you can see, the hyphen is a nasty, tricky, evil little mark that gets its kicks igniting arguments in newsrooms and trying to make everyone in the English-speaking world look like an idiot - it's the Bill Maher of punctuation.

I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.

How many words are you having trouble with, sir?

Just the ones that I've highlighted.

I count at least a dozen, and I haven't gotten out of the first paragraph.

That's as far as I got, too. I'm not sure you and I speak the same language.
-Lieutenant Massey Reynstein & Captain Tagon

He’s more a shape in a drape than a hep cat

No. See, when you throw up you're vomiting, but when you throw down you're starting a fight, as in throwing down the gauntlet."
"Ohhhh," he said. "I thought you were speaking literally."
"I do beg your pardon. Let's literally throw up, but figuratively throw down.

On the whole I try to keep Modesty and Willie in timeless settings, which is why I avoid all the latest slang and in-words. It won't be long before 'brill' sounds as dated as 'super' does now. [Uncle Happy, 1990]

Time is the secret language of the universe which no one can understand.

Time. The most powerful word in the language. In any language.

The language of time is geometry.

Time is the hidden language of the universe.

Time is the language of the universe.

Geometry is the language of time.

Secrecy is the language of time.

She walks to a table
She walk to table

She is walking to a table
She walk to table now

What difference does it make
What difference it make

In Nature, no completeness
No sentence really complete thought

Language, like woman,
Look best when free, undressed.

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.