Language Quotes
Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks he can talk about language.
The language of science—and especially of a science of man—is, necessarily, anti-individualistic, and hence a threat to human freedom and dignity.
I have spent many years trying to recover a common language, one that can cross the distance between people.
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.
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.
Four D's of Disconnection: 1. Diagnosis (judgment, analysis, criticism, comparison); 2. Denial of Responsibility; 3. Demand; 4. 'Deserve' oriented language.
The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
I have a high regard for Native languages and the pivotal role they have played in our nation's history
The American idiom has much to offer us that the English language has never heard of
I come from a place where you don't need to talk all the time. There are sign languages you learn.
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.
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 should constantly use the most common, little, easy words which our language affords.
The real problem in speech is not precise language. The problem is clear language.
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.
Language, thought, analysis, art, dance, poetry, mythmaking: these are the things that point the way toward the realm of the eschaton.
Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it.
I would never use obscene language in the office. Certainly not. I kept my obscene language for the home, where it belongs.
If during their education our youths become alienated from their language, history, ancestors, culture and civilization, it means there is a very serious educational problem there.
Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation.
I am calling attention just to the main points of these tremendously important matters, which can be understood better by pious meditation than explained by human language.
Pop music has greater power to change people and to affect people because it's a universal language. You don't have to understand music to understand the power of a pop song.
We are thus assisted by natural objects in the expression of particular meanings. But how great a language to convey such pepper-corn informations!
I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language.
At the end of the day, flirting is a pretty universal language. Americans are more direct. British people are more indirect about everything
We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it. This is the reason why it is so difficult for any but natives to speak a language correctly or idiomatically.
Air power speaks a strategic language so new that translation into the hackneyed idiom of the past is impossible.
We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
The gift of language is the single human trait that marks us all genetically, setting us apart from the rest of life.
The state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies-and whatever it has, it has stolen.
Every human being should know two languages: the language of society and the language of signs. One serves to communicate with other people, the other serves to understand God's messages.
To transform experience and thought into language and narrative - that is beautiful even if that beauty is in brokenness.
English is the perfect language for preachers because it allows you to talk until you think of what to say.
Language is the writer's only tool - we really don't have anything else - but our language contains within it our entire experience of the world.
The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating.
