Language Quotes

An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.

We have two hundred languages in Europe. Two hundred languages! Count them! I know you won't!

paraphrasing.."Science is the language of the intellect of society. Art is language of the entire human personality.

There is an interesting resemblance in the speeches of dictators, no matter what country they may hail from or what language they may speak.

Gertrude Stein ... the Madame Curie of language. Because in her deep research she has crushed thousands of tons of matter to extract the radium of the word.

I love to laugh, it's my main thing. I love to abuse the English language.

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.

Never ask a woman if you may kiss her. Instead, learn to read body language.

Profound music leads us beyond language...to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence.

A language not based on universal symbols or sensations is gibberish, a pitfall of modern art, no longer modern.

If names are not correct, then language is not in accord with the truth of things. If language is not in accord with the truth of things, then affairs cannot be carried out successfully.

A blur of blinks, taps, jiggles, pivots and shifts ... the body language of a man wishing urgently to be elsewhere.

It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them.

Words were written out for me phonetically. I learned to quack in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese and German.

Every American child should grow up knowing a second language, preferably English.

There are ideas it will be easy to say in the future that we just don't have the language for now.

[Sexism is] behavior, policy, language, or other action of men or women which expresses the institutionalized, systematic, comprehensive, or consistent view that women are inferior.

"What is the most beautiful word in the language?" The elderly lawyer quickly replied: "Home."

Language etches the grooves through which your thoughts must flow.

Human language is nothing like the signalling systems of other animals.

Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.

The process of filmmaking is very musical, you get into the rhythm and the rhythmics of how someone is, especially with Woody Allen who is very much into body language and body movement.

Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.

It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living.

Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt.

No language exists that cannot be misused... Every Interpretation is hypothetical, for it is a mere attempt to read an unfamiliar text.

resignation, perhaps the most stifling word in the language.

To learn a new language is, therefore, always a sort of spiritual adventure; it is like a journey of discovery in which we find a new world.

When people speak their own language you get a much better sense of who they are.

The mood was terrible. You could see it in everybody's eyes. The body language was just defeated. When they put me in I was hoping I could give us some energy and try to bring us back.

A data structure is just a stupid programming language.

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.

Eiffel borrows quite openly from several earlier programming languages and I am sure that if we had found a good language construct in C we would have used it as well.

A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest.

One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.

Four D's of Disconnection: 1. Diagnosis (judgment, analysis, criticism, comparison); 2. Denial of Responsibility; 3. Demand; 4. 'Deserve' oriented language.

When we listen for feelings and needs - we can see that people who seem like monsters are simply human beings whose language and behavior sometimes keep us from seeing their humanness.

Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy.

Art is one of the dirtiest words in our language; it's mucked up with all kinds of meanings. There's the art of plumbing; there's the art of almost anything that you can say.

I have spent many years trying to recover a common language, one that can cross the distance between people.

The language of science—and especially of a science of man—is, necessarily, anti-individualistic, and hence a threat to human freedom and dignity.

Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks he can talk about language.

No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead.

When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.

But, reader, there is no comfort in the word "farewell," even if you say it in French. "Farewell" is a word that,in any language, is full of sorrow. It is a word that promises absolutely nothing.

One of the great skills in using any language is knowing what not to use, what not to say. There's that simplicity thing again.

Language is the only chimera whose illusory power is endless, the inexhaustibility which keeps life from being impoverished. Let men learn to serve language.

In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a sort of accompaniment to the signified.

I'm writing, I'm using language, I'm using that language to tell stories and even more so to get ideas across. And I just love that, and I've always loved that.