Language Quotes
Now, mark it. This may be strong language, but heed it. The people mean it, and, my friends of the Eastern Democracy, we bid farewell when you do that thing.
The real problem in speech is not precise language. The problem is clear language.
We should constantly use the most common, little, easy words which our language affords.
Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels.
We need to understand that every time an elementary teacher captures the imagination of a child through the arts or music of language this nation gets a little stronger.
I come from a place where you don't need to talk all the time. There are sign languages you learn.
The American idiom has much to offer us that the English language has never heard of
I have a high regard for Native languages and the pivotal role they have played in our nation's history
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.
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.
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.
A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest.
Yeats was the greatest poet of our times . . . certainly the greatest in this language, and so far as I am able to judge, in any language.
When I don't make any progress, it is because I have bumped into the wall of language. Then I draw back with a bloody head. And would like to go on.
Language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing but a compromise - that which is common to you, me, and everybody.
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.
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.
I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.
I've always said that I learned the English I know through two sources -- Marvel Comics and Finnegans Wake.
You know I very much respect Yvonne Rainer, she is very important - in American dance, the entire development of modern dance, and creating a wonderful physical language.
When a man is born...there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.
My culture and my language have the right to exist, and no one has the authority to dismiss that.
Americans can pretty much sing anything, whereas foreign singers are often limited in style, language, even composer.
My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.
Like a baby learning language, we learn how to communicate with God by listening to His words first.
There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for example, a workshop can liberate the students' use of the vocabulary they're acquiring.
Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work.
