Language Quotes

The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is the language I don't understand.

Art transcends war. Art is the language of God and war is the barking of men. Beethoven is bigger than war.

Music is truly love itself, the purest, most ethereal language of the emotions, embodying all their changing colors in every variety of shading and nuance.

There is no right language or wrong language any more than there are right or wrong clothes.

By stretching language we'll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide.

What gives it its human character is that the individual through language addresses himself in the role of the others in the group and thus becomes aware of them in his own conduct.

We are obliged to steal pieces of language, both visual and textual.

I have to admit that I don't even try to speak Russian, though I understand it perfectly. I wouldn't want to insult the language by testing out my pronunciations

Quiet talk is the language of love. It is the language of peace. It is the language of God.

I was pretending that I did not speak their language; on the moon we spoke a soft, liquid tongue, and sang in the starlight, looking down on the dead dried world.

Our Digital Immigrant instructors, who speak an outdated language (that of the pre-digital age), are struggling to teach a population that speaks an entirely new language

If you go to France, you have to speakFrench. If you speak in English, no one looks at you. On the one hand we sayEnglish is a global language.

I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.

I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity?

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

Words, do not have twins in every language. Sometimes they only have distant cousins, and sometimes they pretend that they are not even related.

Image is an international language.

Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don't understand.

I want to find a language that transforms language itself into steel for the spirit--a language to use against these sparkling insects, these jets.

The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .

Music speaks from spirit to spirit and in that sense you could call it a true spiritual language.

Expression and communication in the peak–experiences tend often to become poetic, mythical, and rhapsodic, as if this were the natural kind of language to express such states of being.

The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the glow of its life.

Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information-hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad translations.

I just don't like big guys who speak cryptically and act like they understand the language better than me.

The communication of ideas requires a similitude of thought and language . . .

The First Amendment...begins with the five loveliest words in the English language: 'Congress shall make no law'.

In my father's language: "To create something out of nothing." That possibility exists in India even in old-world sectors like agriculture.

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.

However well equipped our language, it can never be forearmed against all possible cases that may arise and call for description: fact is richer than diction.

Poetry is language trying to become bodily experience.

One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'

Laughter is the language of the heart

You don't have to have a language in common with someone for a sexual rapport. But it helps if the language you don't understand is Italian.

I was always fascinated by diagramming a sentence. Because that is going into a space, going into a world of language.

I hope to have more time to think, to look at the sky, dealing with less crisis management, to learn another language, to travel.

Rembrandt is so deeply mysterious that he says things for which there are no words in any language.

I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative.

Tarkovsky for me is the greatest [director], the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life as a reflection, life as a dream.

Let's keep our boots polished, bayonets sharpened, and present a picture of force and strength to the Red Army. This is the only language they understand and respect.

Punctuation has its own philosophy, just as style does, although not as language does. Style is a good understanding of language, punctuation is a good understanding of style.

Whether consciously or not, sexist God language undermines the human equality of women made in the divine image and likeness.

I keep thinking, we teach children to use language to solve their disputes. We teach them not to hit and fight and bite. Then look what adults do!

In general, every country has the language it deserves.

It seems to me that if there were any logic to our language, trust would be a four letter word.

Communication across the revolutionary divide is inevitably partial.

There are no philosophical problems, there is only a suite of interconnected linguistic cul de sacs created by language's inability to reflect the truth.

The mystic lives and looks; and speaks the disconcerting language of first-hand experience.

Every form of power comes down to language. In law, there's all kinds of words you don't know if you're not a lawyer and that gives them power. In business, it's the same thing.