Language Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

I've built my homeland, I've even founded my state - in my 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 feel Mahatma Gandhi's non-violence was for the intelligent, educated British.It was not for those who don't understand this language.

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.

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

The Last Of England works with image and sound, a language which is nearer to poetry than prose. It tells its story quite happily in silent images, in contrast to a word-bound cinema.

A change in language can transform our appreciation of the cosmos.

In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social factors, one's own language above all.

Bad writing is bad not just because the language is humdrum, but the quality of the observation is so poor.

It feels wonderful to be go back to the 1940s and recreate the whole era through my clothes, voice and body language. I am tired of playing the larger-than-life hero.

Act averse to nasty language and partial to fruity tea.

The problem with using C++ ... is that there's already a strong tendency in the language to require you to know everything before you can do anything.

Without a constant misuse of language there cannot be any discovery, any progress

Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.

German in the most extravagantly ugly language - it sounds like someone using a sick bag on a 747.

Language does our thinking for us.

At night, I open the window and ask the moon to come and press its face against mine. Breathe into me. Close the language-door and open the love-window. The moon won't use the door, only the window.

Musicians can travel all over the world and have an audience, because there's no language barrier.

Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own.

Programming languages, like pizzas, come in only too sizes; too big and too small.

Style is just an impression. Style itself is hollow. Style, its ok style as long as it is part of a language. Style for style itself is just something very hollow.

Living in the world without insight into the hidden laws of nature is like not knowing the language of the country in which one was born.

The world's five thousand extant languages are products of our shared ability, but the five thousand cultures they create are separate from each other.

To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.

Language makes infinite use of finite media.

The soul inside me is the last foreign language I'm learning.

The images of peace are ephemeral. The language of peace is subtle. The reasons for peace, the definitions of peace, the very idea of peace have to be invented, and invented again

Every individual or national degeneration is immediately revealed by a directly proportional degradation in language.

I don't see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty - and evaporating quickly.

Shakespeare language is fantastic, and to be honest, you dont need to do anything to Shakespeare.

Texting has added a new dimension to language use, but its long-term impact is negligible. It is not a disaster.

You can't listen to all that language and filth without it affecting you

Language is so different from life. How am I supposed to fit the one into the other? How can I bring them together?

Besides language and music, mathematics is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind.

I know how to say 'no' in twelve languages. That's enough for a woman.

I wanted to make feminism more accessible. And I really wanted to engage with my own generation, one that is increasingly speaking in an audio/video multimedia language.

The language of priorities is the religion of socialism.

Of all the words in all languages I know, the greatest concentration is in the English word I.

Love is a child that talks in broken language, yet then he speaks most plain.

Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own literary language.

Nationalism is the love which ties me to the blockheads of my country, to the insultors of my way of life, and to the desecrators of my language.

Language is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines.