Language Quotes

Ballet is not technique, not a way of doing things, but a means of expression that comes perhaps more closely to the inner language of man than any other.

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.

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

To get someone to pose, you have to be very good friends and above all speak the language.

So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to make films without words.

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

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.

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

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.

Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of thought, but by itself nothing.

A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.

Speaking of Sir Winston Churchill: He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.

Because English is the universal language. No matter where you come from, if you sing in English, you can cross over to the world.

It is said that life and death are under the power of language.

Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners.

A name is precious; it carries inside it a language, a history, a set of traditions, a particular way of looking at the world. Losing it meant losing my ties to all those things too.

Put your trust in god are the most dangerous words in the English language.

I'd say I dream in Esperanto. Sometimes I remember some dreams in another language, but dreaming in languages no, but figures yes, my psychology is this way.

English is capable of defining sentiments that the human nervous system is quite incapable of experiencing.

They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.

Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.

No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.

We read each other through our eyes, and anatomically they are an extension of our brains. When we catch someone's eye, we look into a mind.

Boondocks' is simply the Tagalog word for mountains.

Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech.

A single word often betrays a great design.

Often I am struck in amazement about a word: I suddenly realize that the complete arbitrariness of our language is but a part of the arbitrariness of our own world in general.

Words are the small change of thought.

The medium is the message.

When a society decays, it is language that is first to become gangrenous. As a result, social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings

There is no 'cat language.' Painful as it is for us to admit, they don't need one!

Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.

Language is something you inherit, it's never just you doing the talking, which helps when you're pretending.

Nonverbal communication forms a social language that is in many ways richer and more fundamental than our words.

English poetry begins whenever we decide to say the modern English language begins, and it extends as far as we decide to say that the English language extends.

Language is memory and metaphor.

I'm working on artificial intelligence. Actually, natural language understanding, which is to get computers to understand the meaning of documents.

...to swear with a ferocity that can only be described as a talent.

I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.

I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.

It's only words... unless they're true.

Words, too, have genuine substance -- mass and weight and specific gravity.

Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure The bastion of sensation. Do not waver Into language. Do not waver in it.

Instead of this confusion, we need the unifying force of an official language, English, which is the language of success in America.

Tears are the noble language of eyes, and when true love of words is destitute. The eye by tears speak, while the tongue is mute.

Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.

That was the hard thing about grief, and the grieving. They spoke another language, and the words we knew always fell short of what we wanted them to say.

Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground.