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Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks they can talk about language. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Poetry translation is like playing a piano sonata on a trombone. — Nataly Kelly

When a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world. — George Steiner

Language disguises thought. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

As she always did on any really important day, Penelope Hayes wore red. — Anna Godbersen

Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion. — Abraham Cowley

Language is a social art. — Willard Van Orman Quine

Not everyone who knows how to write can be a writer. Not everyone who knows two languages can be a translator. — Nataly Kelly

Teach me to speak the language of men. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

Remember that lettuce doesn't grow on a spruce; and it also doesn't rhyme with it. — Jakub Marian

In Iraq, interpreters were ten times more likely to be killed than were U.S. troops. — Nataly Kelly

The language looks rather different when you look at a lot of it at once. — John Sinclair

Language, never forget, is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines. — Bill Bryson

As long as human beings speak different languages, the need for translation will continue. — Nataly Kelly

I'm flattered anytime someone has taken enough time to listen to me and make a connection to someone else, honestly. — Charlie Worsham

Translation software is not making translators obsolete. Has medical diagnostic software made doctors obsolete? — Nataly Kelly

To deny access to translation and interpreting services oppresses human rights and violates laws. — Nataly Kelly

People's sense of how they talk tends to differ from the reality. — John McWhorter

That which is alike will be called same. That which is not same is different. — Leonard Bloomfield

Of the 193 recognized countries in the world, only politically isolated North Korea is considered monolingual. — Nataly Kelly

Holy Moses on a pogo stick!! — Lara Adrian

Repetition is beautiful. — Prince

To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture. — Frantz Fanon

The only languages which do not change are dead ones. — David Crystal

Bilingualism is for me the fundamental problem of linguistics. — Roman Jakobson

I would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective. — Mark Twain

What will you do on the day of reckoning, when disaster comes from afar? To whom will you run for help? Where will you leave your riches? — Isaiah

An entire mythology is stored within our language. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

If I create anything, I create the atmosphere of trust and openness. — Sante D'Orazio

Welsh mutates initial consonants. Actually all languages do, but most of them take centuries, while Welsh does it while your mouth is still open. — Jo Walton

A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms. — Roman Jakobson

I should think a dead language would be rather boring, socially
speaking. — Sol Luckman