Language Quotes
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
The other creatures with which we share this world have their rights too, but not speaking our language, they have no voice, no vote; it is our moral duty to take care of them.
Thinking is not the ability to manipulate language; it’s the ability to manipulate concepts.
Language is an impure medium. Speech is public property and words are the soiled products, not of nature, but of society, which circulates and uses them for a thousand different ends.
Chemistry is a gibberish of Latin and German; but in Leibig's hands it becomes a powerful language.
Language is wild - you can't fence it or tell it what to do - and it's the same with people. Even under the worst excesses of Stalinism or consumerism, the human spirit will still express itself.
Working with language is a means by which we can identify the bullshit within ourselves (and others).
I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
We're all surrounded by what I call faux language, fake language of commerce, of news media.
He understood for the first time that the world is not dumb at all, but merely waiting for someone to speak to it in a language it understands.
The English language was carefully, carefully cobbled together by three blind dudes and a German dictionary
I kind of do this awkward body language because, growing up, I had a really hard time expressing myself vocally.
The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it.
I certainly don't walk around my home or being with my family and just using profane language all the time, but on stage, it's a constant.
Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense.
From this point forth, we shall be leaving the firm foundation of fact and journeying together through the murky marshes of memory into thickets of wildest guesswork.
I think that phrase is the most horrible phrase in the English language - 'I don't know.' It's terribly embarrassing.
No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.
Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.
The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.
Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.
We live at the level of our language. Whatever we can articulate we can imagine or understand or explore.
I find labels "liberal" and "conservative" of little meaning. Our language has become perverted along with the thoughts of many of us.
A French politician once wrote that it was a peculiarity of the French language that in it words occur in the order in which one thinks them.
I don't swear much; I've taken those words out of my vocabulary, and having kids, you have to have two sets of language!
In the era of imperialism, businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked the language of succcessful businessmen.
If political correctness has achieved one thing, it’s that it has made the Conservative party cloak their inherent racism behind more creative language
Life is a language in which certain truths are conveyed to us; if we could learn them in some other way, we should not live.
Samskrit is the unsurpassed zenith in the whole development of languages yet known to us.
I believe we are being dishonest with language minority groups if we tell them they can take full part in American life without learning the English language.
Which brings us to the least sexy word in the English language, kids," Dad said, kicking back in his chair. "Inbreeding. Avoid it.
Art is a universal language and through it each nation makes its own unique contribution to the culture of mankind.
Each routine you read turns out to be pretty much what you expected. You can call it beautiful code when the code also makes it look like the language was made for the problem.
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
Zis and zat' when uttered by the French is considered charming, but 'dis and dat' as an Africanism is ridiculed as gross and ugly.
