Language Quotes

The old languages - at least the ones I know - don't have gender. They don't have gendered pronouns. There's no "he" and "she." A human being is a human being.

One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.

Whoever lives in whichever state should learn the culture of thestate and its language.

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.

I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language behave for them.

We probably, as primitive people, made music before we actually had a language, and that's where language comes from.

The propaganda of communism possesses a language which every people can understand. Its elements are simply hunger, envy, death.

Samskrit is the greatest language of the world.

Mastery of language affords remarkable power.

Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language.

Photography is a language more universal than words.

The most disgusting four letter word in the English language is 'cage'.

The real technology -behind all our other technologies- is language. It actually creates the world our consciousness lives in.

To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing.

We have our own language. Christianese... We don't say 'He's out of his mind,' no, we say 'That's our youth pastor.

Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.

There is another language beyond language, another place beyond heaven and hell. Precious gems come from another mine, the heart draws light from another source.

Ingrid Bergman speaks five languages and can’t act in any of them.

I do believe that books can change lives and give people this kind of language they wouldn't have had otherwise.

Humble words and increased preparations are signs that the enemy is about to advance. Violent language and driving forward as if to the attack are signs that he will retreat.

Being a writer requires an intoxication with language.

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.

The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.

Language is a virus from outer space.

All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously incomprehensible to our soul now become the meaningful language of nature.

The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.

Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.

Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born.

My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness.

Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.

The fact of the matter is that the 'real world' is to a large extent unconsciously built up on the language habits of the group.

I feel Mahatma Gandhi's non-violence was for the intelligent, educated British.It was not for those who don't understand this language.

I have never lost my temper. I let out my venom in my writing if I have to, but person-to-person, I have never lost my temper, never used abusive language.

I've built my homeland, I've even founded my state - in my language.

In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

He wanted to think of words that would make some difference but there were none in any language he knew that were sufficient to the moment or that would change a single thing.

Photography is full of symbolism, it's a symbolic language. You have to be able to materialize all your thoughts in one single image.

Average. It was the worst, most disgusting word in the English language. Nothing meaningful or worthwhile ever came from that word.

In any language it is a struggle to make a sentence say exactly what you mean.

I think of writing as a sculptural medium. You are not building things. You are removing things, chipping away at language to reveal a living form.

We breathed the air of freedom without knowing the language or any person.

The Black Parade only has two songs left. Then you'll have to deal with the likes of My Chemical Romance. Personally...I think their language is atrocious and they don't know how to dress.

In a world of peace and love, music would be the universal language.

Spite is a little word, but it represents as strange a jumble of feelings and compound of discords, as any polysyllable in the language.

Human eyes are the sign language of the brain. If you watch them carefully, you can see the truth played out, raw and unguarded.

All language is political.

If you are sick, fast and pray; if the language is hard to learn, fast and pray; if the people will not hear you, fast and pray, if you have nothing to eat, fast and pray.

Smaller incidents in my life made me realize that language, even more than color, defines who you are to people.