Quotes by Language Javier Chevanton don't speak the language too good. Kevin Bond languagespeakfootball I've long believed that having multiple official languages makes it very hard to sustain a united polity. Kevin Drum multiplelanguagelong It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word. Kevin Kline look-uplanguagelooks I'm not sure which I dislike more: 'Ulysses' or the James Joyce estate. Admittedly, a few people have got some pleasure from 'Ulysses', but against that, you have to weigh the millions of lives that have been ruined by the futile attempts to read it. Kevin Myers languagebookpeople All biblical exegetes and theologians have a theory of language, whether they acknowledge it or not. Kevin Vanhoozer biblicallanguagetheory One man's frankness is another man's vulgarity. Kevin Smith vulgaritylanguagemen I have never lost my temper. I let out my venom in my writing if I have to, but person-to-person, I have never lost my temper, never used abusive language. Khushwant Singh usedlanguagewriting I like to use my own language. Political movements are like living creatures - they develop. Each document expresses the times, the different stages and is part of the natural development. Khaled Mashal politicaldifferentlanguage Be careful. I wouldn’t want anything to happen to the worst Spanish student in the history of the language.” I laughed. “No problemo. Kiersten White languagestudentswant Since the boundary of the world of poetry is fluid, the language in it is also fluid. Hence, the language that is outside of the poetry world, namely the language that is not the language of poetry, cannot go into the poetry world. Kim Hyesoon languageboundariesworld Even though we can't communicate using the same language, we use music instead. Kim Jong-hyun shineelanguageuse The language of poetry is not stuck in place. Nothing can own language. I think, however, the genre of poetry itself is very feminine and motherly. Kim Hyesoon motherlylanguagethinking Language must resound with all the harmonies of music. The writer must always, at all times, find the tremulous word which captures the thing and is able to draw a sob from my soul by its very rightness. Knut Hamsun ablelanguagesoul We shall never understand one another until we reduce the language to seven words. Khalil Gibran sevenlanguage Language is a signifier - it points to something. But those somethings change sometimes. Where the line comes down is that change is not in the dictionary first, it's not: change the signifier and the signified will go away. Kory Stamper things-changegoing-awaylanguage There's a measure of prescriptivism and descriptivism in every dictionary. Prescriptivism believes that the language should mirror the best practices of English, and editors are prescriptivist in so far as they don't want to let things they consider to be inelegant or ungrammatical into print. Kory Stamper printlanguagebelieve I certainly self-police my language depending on who I'm talking to. I try to be very careful about using filler words, about not drawling certain vowels, even when I can't say "drawl" without drawling. That's kind of sad, because self-policing inhibits communication. You're more focused on the words coming out of your mouth or that should not be coming out of your mouth than making a connection with the person you're speaking to. Kory Stamper communicationlanguagetrying You will hear people say the C-word. Except, it's a regional language: in British English, c - t has much less of an inflammatory sense than it does in North American English. You can hear someone on British TV called "a c - ting monkey" or a man being called a c - t. The particular fascination of profanity is how culturally specific it is and how it evolves. Kory Stamper languagemenpeople Make peace with guilt. Guilt is a poisonous illusion. Many languages don't even have a word for guilt. Kris Carr illusionlanguageguilt If only…the saddest words in the English language. Kristan Higgins saddestenglish-languagelanguage«5960616263646566676869»
