Age Quote by Peter Brodie

Language, she said, was just our way to explain away the wonder and glory of the world. To deconstruct. To dismiss. She said people…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Latin’s a dead language, anyway,” he said. “Bite your tongue.” Quin sounded like a shocked grandmother. “That’s English you’re speaking,” Matheus said. “The language…

— Amy Fecteau

“Was bad language used?” asked Colonel Melchett. “It depends on what you call bad language.” “Could you understand it?” I asked. “Of course I…

— Agatha Christie

As a young writer, I was on guard against the Latina in me, the Spanish in me because as far as I could see…

— Julia Alvarez

“There are a lot of human experiences that challenge the limits of our language,” she said. “That’s one of the reasons that we have…

— Ava Dellaira

“So there are no dirges in Terrasen that are sung in a different language?” “No,” he said, drawing out the word as he pondered.…

— Sarah J. Maas

“Mrs. Scamler,’ she said, ‘do you study French, ma'am?’ ‘I do, indeed,’ I said; ‘two hours a day.’ ‘Then, ma’am,’ she says, ‘we call…

— John Davidson

“The next night, alone in the tent, Laurent said: 'As we draw closer to the border, I think it would be safer--more private--to hold…

— S.U. Pacat

“Our citizens must act as Americans; not as Americans with a prefix and qualifications; not as Irish-Americans, German-Americans, native Americans—but as Americans pure and…

— Mary Beth Smith

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.

— Mark Twain

Love is language that cannot be said, or heard.

— Rumi

“Yes," I went on, "we do, indeed"; and again I smiled benignly, as I uttered that amazing lie. "We come to stay with you…

— H. Rider Haggard