#Language

"Instead of sidewalks, why not sideruns? After all, the pace of life is faster than it has ever been, so I think our infrastructure’s nomenclature should reflect that."

"You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect."

"Language is the key to the heart of people."

"The word long is short, and so is the word short, but why is the word love as long as long? Shouldn’t it be longer?"

"He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish."

"A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language."

"Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all."

"But suppose it was truth double strong, it were no truth to me if I couldna take it in. I daresay there's truth in yon Latin book on your shelves; but it's gibberish and no truth to me, unless I know the meaning o' the words."

"Our love went from fly to flower to butterfly, and it was meant to beautifully flutter, not sit still on a shelf like a trophy to be collected."

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

"لا توجد أي دولة في العالم انطلقت في المجال التكنولوجي دون الاعتماد على اللغة الأم."

"The past is always tense, the future perfect."

"We speak, but it is God who teaches."

"Instead of this confusion, we need the unifying force of an official language, English, which is the language of success in America."

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

"To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry."

"Meow” means “woof” in cat."

"Better than learning how to speak a foreign language, is to start speaking the truth. But few people will listen, because they just don’t understand."

"I still believe in man in spite of man. I believe in language even though it has been wounded, deformed, and perverted by the enemies of mankind. And I continue to cling to words because it is up to us to transform them into instruments of comprehension rather than contempt. It is up to us to choose whether we wish to use them to curse or to heal, to wound or to console."

"Words are the clothes thoughts wear."