Language Quotes

I think it's important to be sincere. And I could be the most sincere just staying in [my] mother language actually. And that's the reason why I stay composing and writing in French.

We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who should and do know better.

Language is a tool for concealing the truth. If we could read each other's minds, this would be a horror show.

I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out.

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

Keep your language. Love its sounds, its modulation, its rhythm. But try to march together with men of different languages, remote from your own, who wish like you for a more just and human world.

Theatre is, at its roots, some very brave people mutually consenting to a make believe world, with nothing but language to rest on.

Language and accents govern so much of how people think about other people.

The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

Nothing exists except through language.

A person who acquires English has access to all the things that that language makes possible.

Language is not a genetic gift, it is a social gift. Learning a new language is becoming a member of the club -the community of speakers of that language.

C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage

Why all these signs around us that make me doubt language and submerge me in meanings, drowning reality instead of extracting it from the imaginary?

Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.

Elegance of language must give way before simplicity in preaching sound doctrine.

The questioner has to come to an end. It is the questioner that creates the answer; and the questioner comes into being from the answer, otherwise there is no questioner.

Singing is as much the language of holy joy as praying is of holy desire.

In effect we are, bending and breaking the rules of the language. And if someone were to ask why we do it, the answer is simply: for fun

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

The gentleman is generous and treats all men as his equals, especially those whom he feels to be inferior in rank and wealth.

Language grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences. 828

A feature of English that makes it different compared with all other languages is its global spread.

Real emotion transcends language. You dont have to understand their words to feel their pain.

In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence.

I speak only one language, and it is not my own.

One thing I can say about the French language is that no one in the world loves their language as much as they do.

Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language.

God is gracious beyond the power of language to describe.

Written forms obscure our view of language. They are not so much a garment as a disguise.

Language furnishes the best proof that a law accepted by a community is a thing that is tolerated and not a rule to which all freely consent.

To see Stephen Spender fumbling with our rich and delicate language is to experience all the horror of seeing a Sevres vase in the hands of a chimpanzee.

The task that we face today is to understand the language of nature.

The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use.

Art as language....in the future there will only be art. This common language will carry the message of love.

Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism.

What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others.

Learn your language well and command it well, and you will have the first component to life.

This sign I give you: every people speaks its tongue of good and evil, which the neighbor does not understand. It has invented its own language of customs and rights.

We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.

...when everything else fails, we communicate in the language of the stars

Jesus is God spelling Himself out in language that men can understand.

And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.

I can't imagine my world without music. It's the universal language; what I make comes from my heart. What I listen to from others stirs it.

Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people.

Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.

Anyone can speak Troll. All you have to do is point and grunt.