Language Quotes

National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.

I love that you can have the language between the two worlds of technology and fashion, because I don't think that many designers get to do that.

It is only possible to speak in the language and in the spirit of one's time.

Some poets marry a language; some have affairs with it; some treat it as a parent, some as a child, some as an equal, or as a friend.

The more you speak more languages, the more you understand about yourself. It's like being blind. You aren't less of a person, but you're missing out on wonderful things.

Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company.

The only universal language I know of that wraps up joy and gratitude and love is laughter.

And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.

What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit of America.

Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.

In the coming decades, questions of identity, meaning cultural heritage, language, and religion will play a central role in politics.

We think in language. We think in words. Language is the landscape of thought.

Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.

It's a beautiful lucid dream that has language that I can fiddle with.

A language which we do not know is a fortress sealed.

We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.

Words fail, there are times when even they fail.

Mathematics is a language

When I say that we have met the Martians and they are us, I am using colorful language to suggest that we may have been seeded in the process of panspermia.

You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse

No language is justly studied merely as an aid to other purposes. It will in fact better serve other purposes, philological or historical, when it is studied for love, for itself.

English is the easiest language to speak badly.

Whoever realizes that the six senses aren't real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.

All these years there had been a Tupperware container of bad language in her head, and now she opened it and all those crisp, crunchy words were fresh and lovely, ready to be used.

Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks; her wanton spirits look out At every joint and motive of her body.

Stay away from restaurants that have menus in five languages. Thats always a tourist trap. You want to eat where the locals eat.

It was real Cheyenne. I would get the translations the night before, but it was very difficult because it was not like any other language you would be familiar with.

Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.

A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language.

It's my language, the language I speak. I've spent a lot more time playing music than talking or writing.

Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language.

I want to live in Kolkata; I don't want to live in Europe - I can't write there. I write in Bengali, and I need to be surrounded by the Bengali language and culture.

How many languages do we really speak?

You may imagine the joy manifested by these poor Africans, when they heard one of their own color address them in a friendly manner, and in a language they could comprehend!

The Semantic Web isn't inherently complex. The Semantic Web language, at its heart, is very, very simple. It's just about the relationships between things.

Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.

Isn’t the most sensitive point of this mourning the fact that I must lose a language — the amorous language? No more ‘I love you’s.

The language of religion can alone suit every situation and every mode of feeling.

He speaks four letter language because his mind is small. His voice is like venom, I don't like him at all.

I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.

A man who can speak two languages is worth two men.

Realistically, English is a universal language; it's the number one language for music and for communicating with the rest of the world.

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

I have every reason to believe that an individual man or woman fluent in several tongues seduces, possesses, remembers differently according to his or her use of the relevant language.

Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks.

There is no language of the holy. The sacred lies in the ordinary.

In English every word can be verbed.

For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance.

Cormac McCarthy's language is perfect. He is in my view the greatest living American prose stylist.