Language Quotes

Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.

Rhetoric, which is the use of language to inform or persuade, is very important in shaping public opinion. We are very easily fooled by language and how it is used by others.

Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb.

We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has

If you know how to handle the verbs, you know how to handle the language. Everything else is just vocabulary.

Music is a kind of harmonious language.

How do I know the Bible isn't the word of God? Well if it was the word of God it would be clear and easy to understand...considering God was the creator of LANGUAGE!

There's almost no content in terms of language at all. I don't like using language to convey meaning. I'd rather use images and music.

There is Indian time and white man's time. Indian time means never looking at the clock. ... There is not even a word for time in our language.

Language uses us as much as we use language.

Language is a virus, money is a nasty disease.

There is no use indicting words, they are no shoddier than what they peddle.

Words travel as swiftly as desire, so it is possible to send a message of love without them.

I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.

But psychology is a more tricky field, in which even outstanding authorities have been known to run in circles, 'describing things which everyone knows in language which no one understands'.

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.

First it must be known that only a spoken word or a conventional sign is an equivocal or univocal term; therefore a mental contentor concept is, strictly speaking, neither equivocal nor univocal.

Language, as we know, is full of illogicalities.

Our approach was very simple. It was about creating a universal language. A show that will be attractive toward every people coming from all over the world. And that was a big thing.

I can read your body language like a conversation

People who are pro smacking children say, 'It's the only language they understand.' You could apply that to tourists.

After we have made our requests known to Him, our language should be, "Thy will be done". I would a thousand times rather that Gods' will should be done than my own.

One man's frankness is another man's vulgarity.

Into this neutral air Where blind skyscrapers use Their full height to proclaim The strength of Collective Man, Each language pours its vain Competitive excuse.

Babies who have not yet been taught to speak any language are the only race of the earth, the race of man: all the rest is pretence, what we call civilization, hatred, fear, desire for strength.

No intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated.

For the storyteller, for the arrowmaker, language does indeed represent the only chance for survival.

The power of nature exists in its silence. Human words cannot encode the meaning because human language has access only to the shadow of meaning.

Cartoonist Walt Disney has made the twentieth century's only important contribution to music. Disney has made use of music as language.

I get along with all the women singers, but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly language.

When we know beyond any doubt that we already speak the feeling language of prayer, we awaken that part of us that can never be stolen, lost, or taken away. This is the secret mode of prayer.

A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs.

Mathematics is a language. We want scientists to be able to read it, speak it, and write it. But we are are not training them to be grammarians.

The opening and closing ceremonies of the London Olympics are mass satanic rituals disguised as a celebration of Britain and sport. Their medium is the language of symbolism.

The greatest single programming language ever designed

In what language does rain fall over tormented cities?

Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don't have a passport.

An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.

Fancy language, like poplin, too often conceals an eczema.

Perhaps it is how we are made; perhaps words of truth reach us best through the heart, and stories and songs are the language of the heart

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

Language is the dress of thought.

Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.

For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.

Following my junior year in high school, I went on a camping trip through Russia in a group led by Horst Momber, a young language teacher from Roosevelt.

Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form.

Each letter of the alphabet is a steadfast loyal soldier in a great army of words, sentences, paragraphs, and stories. One letter falls, and the entire language falters.

But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.

Neither the mouse nor the boy was the least bit surprised that each could understand the other. Two creatures who shared a love for motorcycles naturally spoke the same language.