Language Quotes

Love is language that cannot be said, or heard.

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.

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.

Through yoga, meditation and other spiritual practices, we can learn the ways of personal equanimity. We can also learn how to use language in beneficial ways.

Men's language is as their lives.

Somebody out there was trying to use my language and trying to speak for me. Rather than have that happen, I thought I'd do it myself. It's a fun thing. It's a way for fans to connect.

A really good stand-up comic is a poet; it's about the use of language. It can be really poetic. And I like politically conscious comedy.

Human relations are like the irregular verbs in a number of languages where nearly all verbs are irregular.

Language has time as its element; all other media have space as their element.

Taken with the archaeological data, we can say that the old hypothesis of an invasion of people - not merely their language - from the steppe appears to be true.

Our heritage as actors goes back thousands of years, and we have to feel as comfortable in the clothes, and the language of Sophocles as we do in our sneakers.

Signs cannot be represented, in a spy's report, so damningly as words.

I was never much of a reader. I'm a slow reader, which is unusual, because I'm so into language and I love words so much. But it's hard for me to read.

Nature is a language - can't you read?

Look at almost any passage, and you'll find that a paragraph has five or six metaphors in it. It's not that the speaker is trying to be poetic, it's just that that's the way language works.

Sometimes I talk to myself in languages I'm unfamiliar with... just to screw with my subconscious.

There's something to be said about all music being some translation of our languaging, our way of communicating. It's a language. This is a new language.

All the hands, hearts and minds of the individuals collectively contribute to the team's success. (listen to your team, watch their body language, share your expectations . . . work together.)

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.

There is a logic of language and a logic of mathematics.

Words slip into a language the way white-green vines slide between slats in a fence.

The most delightful aspect about the language of cinema is that it speaks to each of us in different ways - it is a purely subjective experience.

Play with your physical workplace in a way that sends positive "body language" to employees and visitors.

For me, music and sound are both the language and underlying architecture of the cosmos.

Language alone protects us from the scariness of things with no names. Language alone is meditation.

I learned to use language like my mother did. I would simulcast, give you the program in your own tongue.

Is calling English our national language racist? Are we at that point?

Perhaps we should keep our monsters about us, lest we become them ourselves.

English is the 'language of liberty' for nations emerging from years of cultural oppression.

Language is double-edged; through words a fuller view of reality emerges, but words can also serve to fragment reality.

Whereas smaller computer languages have features designed into them, C++ is unusual in having a whole swathe of functionality discovered, like a tract of 19th century Africa.

Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.

If you aspire to be a leader of your own country, you must speak your own language, for God's sake.

We must stop using the language of force and return to the path of civilized diplomatic and political settlement.

There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging principles of human nature.

To defend what we love we need a particularizing language, for we love what we particularly know.

The language that reveals also obscures.

The four most powerful words in the English language - please, thanks, sorry and why.

Without language, it is safe to say that man would not have become fully human.

The deviant that does not observe the trivial uses of the language is a poet, a deviant who violates the banal customs of society is a criminal.

Poetry demands a different material than prose. It uses another facet of the same fact... the spontaneous conformation of language as it is heard.

Dangling punch lines to forgotten stories remain in the language like the smile of the Cheshire cat.