Language Quotes

english doesn't borrow from other languages. english follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.

I hate women because they have brought into the currency of our language such expressions as "all righty" and "yes indeedy" and hundreds of others.

For me, myth is the 'common' language of us all.

Art is no longer anything more than a kind of meta-language for banality.

Power floats like money, like language, like theory.

There is nothing more nervous than a million dollars - it moves very fast, and it doesn't speak any language.

Half of the time I don't know what they're talking about; their jokes seem to relate to a past that everyone but me has shared. I'm a foreigner in the world and I don't understand the language.

There are words that exist in one language and not in another language. It creates barriers that keep us from understanding each other. I'm often frustrated using words to talk to people.

The subtle difference in our attitude can make a major difference in our future. It can be as simple as the language we use.

The themes Poe used were universal and timeless. As long as the English language exists at all, we will be able to appreciate what he did. It will not age! It will not become dated!

Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal

Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language.

God created us with sexual passion so that there would be language to describe what it means to cleave to him in love and what it means to turn away from him to others.

Wordsmiths who serve established power...castrate the public imagination by subjecting language to a complexity which renders it private. Elitism is always their aim.

Even if it's just a little thing, something like a song, there's still that sort of common language, that common denominator that we can all relate to.

To the newcomer who has not learned its language, a large city is a chaos of details, a vast Woolworths store of differently colored, simlarly priced objects.

I didn't want to be either the cre'me de la cre'me or a martyr. I'd rather be a novelty, especially in a democracy that doesn't understand the language I write in.

Words are containers for power

The poem has to bear the weight with image, language... the screenplay with dialogue, plot.

I master only the language of others. Mine does with me what it wants.

I have drawn from the well of language many a thought which I do not have and which I could not put into words.

He who knows other languages feels even closer to his own language.

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Initially, before I came to Hollywood, I thought that the language barrier would be the biggest challenge, but I realized that actors all around the world, regardless of language, are all the same.

The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.

Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are. By using bad language, we diminish the divine spark within us that defines our humanity.

The act of language or the act of denying language carries its own heaviness.

"Equestrian", by the by, is the gayest word in the English language. In fact, I thought Brokeback Mountain should have been called Two Equestrians.

Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.

Speak the language of the company you are in; speak it purely, and unlarded with any other.

Each language has its own temperament; some languages make a poem more dramatic or sad, and others make it more playful.

The mind may be exhausted, but the language of the heart is inexhaustible.

Speech happens to not be his language.

If our language is watered down, then mankind becomes less human, and less free.

My love of the British is equal to that of my own people.

This belief in the necessity of English training has enslaved us. It has unfitted us for true national service.

The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!

I write on a visual canvas, 'seeing' a scene in my thoughts before translating it into language, so I'm a visual junkie.

Language is a form of organized stutter.

Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape.

English has borrowed from everywhere and now goes everywhere.

Unlike the ambiguity of life, the ambiguity of language does reach a limit.

What night gave Rafael was a formlessness in which everything had a purpose. As if darkness had a hidden musical language.

Fashion is an instant language.

I want to keep talking about my people and my country in my own language.

We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate of matrimony.

People in Finland have also adopted me because of my dad, and that's great, but it's the one language I can't speak.

Language, as well as the faculty of speech, was the immediate gift of God.

In fact, by universal grammar I mean just that system of principles and structures that are the prerequisites for acquisition of language, and to which every language necessarily conforms.

Nobody is capable of of free speech unless he knows how to use language, and such knowledge is not a gift: it has to learned and worked at.