Language Quotes

English has more flexibility. It's a very plastic, very shapeable, very expressive language. In that sense it feels quite natural.

Past, present and future are not amenities of language. Time unfolds into the seamsof being. It passes through you, making and shaping.

No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.

The most difficult step in the study of language is the first step.

The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.

Language should fulfill your individual existence as a wholesome human being... Language should be more than just getting by.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

The ten most powerful two-letter words in the English language are: If it is to be, it is up to me.

The United States is enriched by many cultures, and united by a single common language.

Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because they won't get it later on.

I have never designed a language for its own sake.

Learning through the arts reinforces critical academic skills in reading, language arts and math, and provides students with the skills to creatively solve problems.

Amid chaos of images, we value coherence. We believe in the printed word. And we believe in clarity. And we believe in immaculate syntax. And in the beauty of the English language.

C++ is the only current language making COBOL look good

It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.

Meow” means “woof” in cat.

It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.

When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language.

Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.

A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.

The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.

In our evolution language has been the greatest single contribution to our understanding and misunderstanding

A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.

Instead of the word 'love' there was an enormous heart, a symbol sometimes used by people who have trouble figuring out the difference between words and shapes.

Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.

Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it.

All the facts of nature are nouns of the intellect, and make the grammar of the eternal language. Every word has a double, trebleor centuple use and meaning.

for it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscriptions on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language known to men, but intimacy itself, which is knowledge

Lexicographers are language reporters.

Hath any wounded thee with injuries? Meet them with patience. Hasty words rankle the wound; soft language dresses it.

I never paid you a compliment, Rachel, in my life. Successful love may sometimes use the language of flattery, I admit. But hopeless love, dearest, always speaks the truth.

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

Language is material to shape and mold, not only a transparent or invisible medium for communication, business contracts, or telling stories.

I may speak many languages, but there remains one in which I live.

I cannot bear the language TV chefs use - they don't seem able to look at a plate of vegetables without accusing it of sexual activity.

Scars are the paler pain of survival received unwillingly and displayed in the language of injury.

He could hardly read or write but his heart spoke the language of the good

What we need are poems that interrogate the world of pronouns, open up possibilities of language and life; forms of politics that support and encourage self-affirmation.

Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.

As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.

Our own genomes carry the story of evolution, written in DNA, the language of molecular genetics, and the narrative is unmistakable.

You can learn Elvish, if you want. It's a language like Italian and English. You can learn to read it, you can learn to write it, and you can learn to speak it.

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

Young feller, you will never appreciate the potentialities of the English language until you have heard a Southern mule driver search the soul of a mule.

Music is the language spoken by angels.

I love the language, it sounds as if it should be writ on satin with syllables which breathe of the sweet South

If I didn't have children I might be more of a lush than I am. I like booze. I struggle with smoking. And I'm a big swearer. I'm trying to rein it in but I do think it's a nice seasoning of language.

The art of music, rather more daughter than imitator of nature, in her impressive and mysterious language minding and educating us, rouses directly our temper and rules us to the depths of our souls.

I think all poets must feel this: that there is constantly something new to be discovered in the language. It's like a thrilling encounter, and you can find things.