Language Quotes

I learned how to sign because when I was growing up in California in order to get into college you needed two semesters of language to get into a University of California school.

Redundancy of language is never found with deep reflection. Verbiage may indicate observation, but not thinking. He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts.

People who do not speak our language very well do complain of feeling rebuffed by French people, who can sometimes be impatient, or even intolerant.

I do that in whatever language of the country I'm in, because the audience appreciate it.

Russian is a very deceptive language, because it looks easy at first: it's like setting out for a gentle stroll and realizing that you've committed yourself to scaling Himalayan peaks.

If your language is confused, your intellect, if not your whole character, will almost certainly correspond.

It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than I should in terms of the usage of the English language.

To call the world God is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym.

The repeal of racist language in the Constitution of Alabama was and still is a necessary step in the state's ability to progress.

Language is, without a doubt, the most momentous and at the same time the most mysterious product of the human mind.

Is there a connection between language and magic? Yes. Ten times yes. So much yes that it almost doesn't bear talking about. It's as pointless that arguing that the sun is hot.

The more languages you know, the less likely you are to become a terrorist.

SQL, Lisp, and Haskell are the only programming languages that I've seen where one spends more time thinking than typing.

In language that's lyrical and haunting, Cheryl Strayed writes about bliss and loss, about the kind of grace that startles and transforms us in ordinary moments.

Tangible language, which often tells more falsehoods than truths.

Can we not interpret our adult wisdom into the language of boyhood?

As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the human language is the possibility of lying.

Believe it or not, Japanese is actually easier than some European languages!

People in general would rather die than forgive. It's THAT hard. If God said in plain language. "I'm giving you a choice, forgive or die," a lot of people would go ahead and order their coffin.

We are not voting for health care if we do not resolve this language on public funding for abortion - no public funding for abortion.

Music is the universal language.

With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.

If I do not speak in a language that can be understood there is little chance for a dialogue.

Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet.

Such is the advantage of a well constructed language that its simplified notation often becomes the source of profound theories.

Not literature alone, but society itself is wormed and rotten when language ceases to be respected not merely by advertisers and politicians, but by persons of learning and authority.

So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.

In the interstices of language lie powerful secrets of the culture.

You get the feeling that many of my guests feel that the French language gives them entry into a more cultivated, more intelligent world, more highly civilised too, with rules.

Cómo se acuerda con los pájaros la traducción de sus idiomas?

Which I wish to remark-- And my language is plain,-- That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar.

Language is a poor enough means of communication as it is. So we should use all the words we have.

Of course language is not an infallible guide, but it contains, with all its defects, a good deal of stored insight and experience.

Love is the language all animals understand.

The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in the language or design of the Constitution.

Whoa, lady, I only speak two languages, English and bad English.

Who would recognize the unhappy if grief had no language?

When you're in other people's country you don't speak your own language out of respect. You don't need to speak.

If we had no language we'd have nothing.

Some people believe that - pardon my language - in order to be good Catholics, we should be like rabbits. No.

Every good writer has much idiom; it is the life and spirit of language.

What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things.

Peace is the language we must speak.

Experience is always larger than language.

Good temper and moderation are the characteristics of parliamentary language.

Translations increase the faults of a work and spoil its beauties.

What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into concepts.

You may be sure, dear Crito, that inaccurate language is not only in itself a mistake: it implants evil in men's souls.

A written discourse on any subject is bound to contain much that is fanciful.

I don't think in any language. I think in images.