Language Quotes

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

I think it would be a tragic statement of the universe if Java was the last language that swept through.

Coffee is a language in itself.

Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.

We communicate all the time, even when we don't realize it. Be aware of body language

European languages must not be considered diamonds displayed under a glass ball, dazzling us with their brilliance.

The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.

While a people preserves its language; it preserves the marks of liberty.

Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.

Language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

A man who has a language consequently possesses the world expressed and implied by that language.

Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche parked outside?

Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations.

Movement is the universal language of personal freedom.

Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.

The first rule of translation: make sure you know at least one of the bloody languages!

The most important word in the language of the working class is "solidarity."

The photograph is an undeniably powerful medium. Free from the constraints of language, and harnessing the unique qualities of a single moment frozen in time.

Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.

What is lofty can be said in any language. What is mean should be said in none.

Filthy language is used by people who don't have the maturity or intelligence to express themselves with better words.

He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.

When the heart speaks, however simple the words, its language is always acceptable to those who have hearts.

I'm trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through.

Poetry at its best is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.

You persuade a man only insofar as you can talk his language by speech, gesture, tonality, order, image, attitude, idea, identifying your ways with his

Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion.

Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.

I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.

Never use a big word when a little filthy one will do.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Language is wine upon the lips.

Hands have their own language.

Would have. Could have. Should have. This is the language of condemnation underscored by the passivity of regret. It’s a dead language. The thing is, you can’t un-sin. You can only repent.

The job of the poet is to use language effectively, his own language, the only language which is to him authentic.

The two great dividers are religion and LANGUAGE

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

Music is all about transporting people, speaking a language which languages fail to express.

Even if you don't understand the language, you can still love the music.

One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.

There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language

Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic.

Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.

My favorite three words in the English language are: ’I don’t know’, because every time I say them, I learn something new.

Then they ask, "Do you want Jesus to come into your heart?" Does it bother anyone that this formula or language is not found in the New Testament?

I can't relate to lazy people. We don't speak the same language. I don't understand you. I don't want to understand you.

The eyes have one language everywhere.

As many languages you know, as many times you are a human being

For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.