#Language

"Me neither,” Shane put in. “Homie don’t play that.”“I wonder, sometimes, if your generation speaks English at all,” Amelie said."

"Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives"

"String several words together in a sentence and you have a language necklace. My I love you would look great with your favorite red dress."

"Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable."

"So he came to realize that learning a language was perhaps the most profound thing a man could do. Not only did it require wrapping different sounds around the very movement of your soul, it involved learning things somehow already known, as though much of what he was somehow existed apart from him. A kind of enlightenment accompanied these first lessons, a deeper understanding of self."

"Never trust the translation or interpretation of something without first trusting its interpreter."

"Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute."

"On what rests the hope of the republic? One country, one language, one flag!"

"I used language because I wanted to offer content that people - not necessarily art people - could understand."

"Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words."

"Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary tries in vain to lock inside every free word."

"But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense."

"I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language."

"We read each other through our eyes, and anatomically they are an extension of our brains. When we catch someone's eye, we look into a mind."

"Words are the clothes thoughts wear."

"Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise."

"I’ll write the first sentence in English and the second sentence will be nonsense translated to Russian, to make the ultimate non sequitur."

"He said "cool"like I say a Spanish word when I'm not sure of the pronunciation."

"Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language."

"Meow” means “woof” in cat."