Language Quotes

Both of my parents are professors and everyone in my family has some fabulous degree of something or another and I couldn't get into college because I didn't know a language.

Eternal truth needs a human language that alters with the spirit of the times.

Language, in its origin and essence, is simply a system of signs or symbols that denote real occurrences or their echo in the human soul.

I only please myself. I figure I'm just one of many people. I'm not that different from anybody else and I don't have great language - I'm very ordinary.

People can stand around and share movement with each other, whether it's professional or not. That's how it grows. That's what dance does. It's its own language.

The language with which I make my poems has nothing to do with one spoken here, or anywhere.

I went with my very being toward language.

Our language needs endless synonyms for beautiful; the eyes could see what the tongue cannot possibly describe.

There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them.

Even for the physicist the description in plain language will be a criterion of the degree of understanding that has been reached.

A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.

What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.

Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head.

The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French.

Language is like music; we rejoice in beauty, range, and quality in both, and we are demeaned by the repetition of a few sour notes.

The poem is a form of texting... it's the original text. It's a perfecting of a feeling in language - it's a way of saying more with less, just as texting is.

His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.

Do you remember when they taught cursive in schools? I think they don't anymore. But I still enjoy it - just the physical act and all the - the whole business of making a thing out of language.

Every true American likes to think in terms of thousands and millions. The word 'million' is probably the most pleasure-giving vocable in the language.

I was very adept at acquiring languages.

Two of the saddest words in the English language are, 'What party?' And LA is the 'What party?' capital of the world.

Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means.

We all live in a small unique world, that's why we need at least one sole common language.

An Englishman is content to say nothing when he has nothing to say.

The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God.

That's so different in Hong Kong when I'm using my own mother language, I can treat the line in one thousand different ways, with many different reactions.

The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one's own style and creatively adjust this to one's author.

As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man.

It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to master a foreign language if you're not brought up with it

A common language is the most obvious binding element in any society.

Aristocracy and exclusiveness tend to final overthrow, in language as in politics.

We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language, which is a sort of monument, to which each forcible individual in a course of many hundred years has contributed a stone.

I used to keep a dictionary and work with it and then I realized there are more words that exist in the English language than there are in this dictionary.

Language is something that springs from the biological matrix, and the neurological matrix, within us.

I picked up business skills along the way, but there are things you learn at school like speaking the language of business so you can speak with CEOs.

A tale should be judicious, clear, succinct; The language plain, and incidents well link'd; Tell not as new what ev'ry body knows; and, new or old, still hasten to a close.

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power.

There are very deep and restrictive principles that determine the nature of human language and are rooted in the specific character of the human mind

Language is the archives of history.

The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.

A man reacheth not to excellence with one language.

Music: breathing of statues. Perhaps: silence of paintings. You language where all language ends. You time standing vertically on the motion of mortal hearts.

There is a kind of nonlinguistic thought going on which we are trying to represent in language, and we know that sometimes we fail.

There is a word, in a verb, something sacred which forbids us from using it recklessly. To handle a language cunningly is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.

In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system.

I wanted to create an album that spoke all the musical languages I loved.

XML is not a language in the sense of a programming language any more than sketches on a napkin are a language.

Jazz is the language of the emotions.

You don't have to be Michelangelo to teach basic art, just as you don't have to be Shakespeare to be able to teach the correct use of language.

My French definitely improves the more I drink, as I worry less and less about absolutely perfect grammar. I do speak and understand the language, just not particularly well.