Roy Blount, Jr. Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs'.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Time, Book, Writing

• I studied French in high school and German in college and I once took a 24-hour Italian crash course. English has by far the most words in it of any other language. Our money might not be worth anything anymore, but the language is.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  School, Italian, College

• When money gets too far away from actual, physical, real equity and property it gets too abstract and too distantly derived and then suddenly it's not worth anything anymore. And the same is true of language.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Real, Language, Far Away

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