Rhythm and sounds are born with syllables.

We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the...

Hate has a language, so we have to find a language to combat that.

Anyone interested in language ends up writing about the sociological issues around it.

Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking.

Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward.

Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study of language.

One of the important things about familiar form and metricality is that it draws attention to the physical nature of language: the spell-binding nature of it and the ceremony of articulation.

For whatever reason, we relate to anything godlike with an English accent. The English are very proud of that. And with anything Roman or gladiators, they have an English accent. For an audience, it...

There's inherent cultural imbalance whenever you're translating from Chinese to English. Educated Chinese readers are expected not only to know about all the Chinese references - history, language,...

When I write about animals, I use anthropological techniques and the language you would use for a person. You don't have to anthropomorphize animals, just acknowledge their individuality.

For the longest time, I thought 'my bad' was 'my bag.' I'd say, 'My bag' and no one would say anything.

Flashbacks rarely involve language. Mine certainly didn't. They were visual, motor, and sensory, and they took place in a relentless, horrifying present.

I should learn the language of a politician - give away as little and keep the rest to yourself. Not lie, I just want to be more guarded.

People say that text messaging is a new language and that people are filling texts with abbreviations - but when you actually analyze it, you find they're not.

Swearing is industry language. For as long as we're alive it's not going to change. You've got to be boisterous to get results.

I guess anime helped me understand the Japanese culture a little better and makes me want to honor certain language nuances that don't always translate to English.

When did the word 'compromise' get compromised? When did the negative connotations of 'He was caught in a compromising position' or 'She compromised her ethics' replace the positive connotations of...

Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.

Scientists attach great importance to the human capacity for spoken language. But we also have a parallel track of nonverbal communication, which may reveal more than our carefully chosen words, and...

Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.

I am made of words. When you cut me, I bleed sentences. When you read me, I speak to your soul.

There may be no English word as bent and broken by casual misuse, or drained of blood by idealizing admirers and apologists, or grossly caricatured by huckstering detractors, as church.

A woman who is praying and a woman who is having fun, they both say "Oh My God", the only difference is how they pronounce it.

Where there is meaning, there is paradigm, and where there is paradigm {opposition}, there is meaning . . . elliptically put: meaning rests on conflict {the choice of one term against another}, and...

I never knew what language they'd lapse into when fucked – Urdu or Telugu or a mix of both {only the techies came in English}.

The creation of language is the creation of a fiction. The minute we speak we are in that fiction. It's a fiction designed, we hope, to reveal a truth. There is no "pure" language. The only "pure...

If you look a word up in the dictionary and twenty minutes later you're still wandering around in the dictionary, you probably have the most basic equipment you need to be a poet.

One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.

A mind enclosed in language is in prison.