Language Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Writing cannot express all words, words cannot encompass all ideas.

They bowed down to him rather, because he was all of these things, and then again he was all of these things because the town bowed down.

One must not be shy where language is concerned.

We sleep in language if language does not come to wake us up with its strangeness.

I find it ridiculous to assign a gender to an inanimate object incapable of disrobing and making an occasional fool of itself.

We speak, but it is God who teaches.

What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!

A body is a body, but only voices are capable of love

Life doesn't exist inside language: too bad for me.

But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.

We gave you a perfectly good language and you f***ed up.

Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.

When the heart speaks, its language is the same under all latitudes.

Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.

Much of the misbehavior of children is motivated by the cravings of an empty LOVE TANK.

Doesn't matter what language you speak or what clothes you wear. Some things don't change. Families. Friends. Lovers. They're the same in every city in every country in every continent of the world.

Even so, sometimes I wish I did have a little bit more flair in my language.

I will not allow my daughters to learn foreign languages because one tongue is sufficient for a woman.

History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.

Music is a simulation of something, but language is the greatest thing we possess.

Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech.

As we read a text in our own language, the text itself becomes a barrier.

Consensus is usually made possible by vague language and shallow commitments.

Transformation of language through psychedelic drugs is a central factor of the evolution of the social matrix of the rest of the century.

We can move no faster than the evolution of our language, and this is certainly part of what the psychedelics are about: they force the evolution of language.

Everybody needs to understand that I learned Arabic from the United States Army as a second language. I never spoke it at home.

Afrikaans is my first language, although you would never know, as my English accent has more of an American-British thing going on from all my years of travelling.

There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.

The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.

The three ingredients of poetry: the mystery of the universe, spiritual curiosity, the energy of language.

Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors.

Our language, once homely and colloquial, seeks to aggrandize our meanest activities with polysyllabic terms or it retreats from frankness into a stammering verbosity.

Thought is prior to language and consists in the simultaneous presentation to the mind of two different images.

I think photography is a universal language as far as storytelling goes, and I think that's what it's most successful at.

No one sleeps in this room without the dream of a common language.

On the day of the show, I sit down with someone that speaks very good English and someone who speaks the local language very well and work out what I'm going to say.

The work that the kids saw around them was so odious, so boring, so worthless that they came to regard WORK as the only dirty four-letter word in the English language.

A poem is a construction of inner space. Language is to inner space as light is to material space.

All I know is that I operate by going out to each of them and trying to learn the territory in which they operate. My language to each of them has to suit their brain.

Sometimes I try to improve the language, the lines, or the delivery, but I don't ad-lib because I think that makes it really hard for everybody else involved.

I had trouble listening to adults who didn't really mean anything that they said; it was as if their language poured into my ears only to drain right out a little spigot in the back of my head.

Poetry is a language for when you can't quite write prose about something, you can't quite say it, but if you do a poem, it kind of gets to the point.