Language Quotes

In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.

The only living language is the language in which we think and have our being.

I have seen how effective language attached to policies that are mainstream and delivered by people who are passionate and effective can change the course of history.

Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.

No new reader, however charitable, could open “Fifty Shades of Grey,” browse a few paragraphs, and reasonably conclude that the author was writing in her first language, or even her fourth.

If you can take photographs with language, I'm taking one right now.

Sometimes only poetry can say it. I think there's just this deeper language, and away of putting your world back together again and breaking through barriers.

When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.

If our language and culture are not passed on to immigrants, where will they learn to value integrity in government and the rule of law?

A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.

When a film is created, it is created in a language, which is not only about words, but also the way that very language encodes our perception of the world, our understanding of it.

The absence of words is the absence of intimacy. There are experiences that are starved for language.

The trodden worm curls up. This testifies to its caution. It thus reduces its chances of being trodden upon again. In the language of morality: Humility.

I have a major problem with the division that occurs because of the division of language.

It's still a mystery to me exactly how I learned the language. [But] I was 19 years old and I had very urgent things to tell girls.

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.

I would say that jazz is my own language.

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.

The censorship of language is the censorship of consciousness.

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.

Courage is the quality most essential to understanding the language of the world.

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.

Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms.

Christopher Hitchens is the greatest living essayist in the English language.

Air power speaks a strategic language so new that translation into the hackneyed idiom of the past is impossible.

Better than chanting a thousand words in a dead language is one soothing word spoken in the vernacular.

Newt Gingrich's job to capture the Congress was to give Republican candidates an edge and a distinction from their Democratic opponent. That required a very high profile, some very strong language.

Writers let themselves be enticed by the language.

Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.

A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.

Well, visual language is another boring discussion about the nature of film.

Ever since I was a kid, I just loved those comedians on TV who would just have fun with the language.

I believe that music surpasses even language in its power to mirror the innermost recesses of the human soul

The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.

Let God be true but every man a liar" is the language of true faith

I've been in situations like in Tokyo where people sang my song word for word and then when the music stopped, they couldn't speak to me. I've seen the music break the language barrier.

Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue.

They had nothing in common but the English language.

Bunny boiler is now part of our language, and I'm proud of that.

If you can describe clearly without a diagram the proper way of making this or that knot, then you are a master of the English language.

I am attached to the French language. I will defend the ubiquitous use of French.

At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language.

I think that people assumed I was white because of my last name. My father is Caucasian, my mother is Hispanic. But English was my second language, believe it or not.

The Canadian community must invest, for the defence and better appreciation of the French language, as much time, energy, and money as are required to prevent the country from breaking up

Did you ever admire an empty-headed writer for his or her mastery of the language? No. So your own winning style must begin with ideas in your head.

People who share the same language, French or Chinese or whatever, have the same vocal cords and emit sounds which are basically the same, as they come from the same throats and lungs.