Language Quotes

I often focus more on language than on the conveying of information.

Language is inexorably tied to power and understanding. And power and understanding are the roots of magic. Just the act of writing something down is a magical act.

One of the most important differences I see between prose and poetry is the music of the language.

Although I'm not fluent in sign language by a long way, I could have a fairly decent conversation.

It's a little-known linguistic curiosity that the name Jehovah or Jaweh is the same name as Eve; Havva, the counterpart name in Farsi, the language spoken by the Persians, means either Jaweh or Eve.

The research carried out in the area of language technology is of utmost importance for the consolidation of Portuguese as a language of global communication in the information society.

My wife and I have created our own language. We can be at a table with six other people and have an argument without anyone knowing. It doesn't even have to be out loud. It's bizarre.

An inability to communicate has little to do with international friction-as is seen in the special ferocity of wars fought between people who speak the same language.

Whoever you are, you've got to start from where you are. If you're a sailor, and only know sailor's language, well, write in it, for God's sake.

A writer can have only one language, if language is going to mean anything to him.

Cicero called Aristotle a river of flowing gold, and said of Plato's Dialogues, that if Jupiter were to speak, it would be in language like theirs.

If someone tried to assimilate you for years, if your language was forbidden, if the names of your hometown were changed, what would do you but revolt.

It is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be in the grasp of superficially educated people.

Language does not leave fossils, at least not until it has become written.

If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.

Animal language is a contagious expression of mood effecting communication between social partners.

There is a language of love, which is to say, a truth that does not tell all and a lie that does not deceive.

In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible.

I gave up language for a while, and I started painting.And then I only listened to Miles Davis and other instrumental music to see how it felt to be without words.

Go learn the language. Go take some acting lessons. Start from zero like everybody else.

Most ads are ignored because every customer has a mental filter that evaluates and dismisses both of these languages of Ad-Speak with a single question: What are they not telling me?

Like the destroyer, the submarine has created its own type of officer and man with language and traditions apart from the rest of the service, and yet at the heart unchangingly of the Service

In love’s country, language doesn’t have its place. Love is mute.

Empathy is even better than talking in one language

Music, to me, is not math or science. It is a language.

It is not often that we use language correctly; usually we use it incorrectly, though we understand each others meaning.

As a prose writer, I work with language; and those who work with language turn to poetry for renewal.

Never too late to learn a language. And the good literature to come with it.

Language is a spiritual mansion in which you live and nobody has the right to evict you.

I think people are tired of being slammed with foul language and sexual content that really has nothing to do with (telling a good story).

Music is not supposed to be nationalist. It is supposed to surpass language barriers. It is about generations communicating with each other.

I think it's wrong to write in a totally esoteric language when you want to talk about things which interest a multitude of women.

Language, as symbol, determines much of the nature and quality of our experience.

Well it is sometimes difficult to act in another language

Not every book has to be loaded with symbolism, irony, or musical language, but it seems to me that every book-at least every one worth reading-is about something.

Geek it's really more a characteristic where you don't socialize. You don't talk the normal languages.

Galileo wrote that 'the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics; without its help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it.'

If language is to be of any use to us, then we ought to try and preserve the meaning of words, and 'god' historically has not meant the laws of nature.

If a person calls themself 'autistic' and you tell them they have to use 'person first language'... you're not putting the person first.

Disease [is] as one of our languages. Doctors understand what disease has to say about itself. It's up to the person with the disease to understand what the disease has to say to her.

Man can think of divine things only in his own human way, to us the Absolute can be expressed only in our relative language.

I'm very political without being political. I don't know how to speak proper political language.

I think the approach to Islam as a tradition is helpful. Tradition helps us to focus on questions about authority and temporality, and about the language used in relation to the two.

Our language and literature are without a doubt Britain's greatest contribution to the cultural heritage of the world.

Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.

I have often thought that unselfishness combined in one word more of the teachings of the Bible than any other in the language.

The logic of the poet - that is, the logic of language or the experience itself - develops the way a living organism grows: it spreads out towards what it loves, and is heliotropic, like a plant.

The language must be careful and must appear effortless. It must not sweat. It must suggest and be provocative at the same time.

Maybe [I care about language] because I'm an editor, maybe because I'm picky, but it's all we got, don't shrink it. Don't dumb it out, make it little.

There's a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was more complicated, especially in the jazz and classical world.