Language Quotes

If you look at this election, I feel like Donald Trump was speaking a different language to Hillary Clinton.

Color is a language, like music.

I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965.

It is impossible to prefigure the salvation of the world in the same language by which the world has been dismembered and defaced.

Photography, like any other art, is a form of communication. The artist is not blowing bubbles for his own gratification, but is speaking a language, is telling somebody something.

Language can do what it can’t say.

The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.

Every word is a prejudice.

A strange thing, words. Once they're said, it's hard to imagine they're untrue.

In their effort to divorce language and experience, deconstructionist critics remind me of middle-class parents who do not allow their children to play in the street.

Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me.

Writing in English is like throwing mud at a wall.

He said "cool" like I say a Spanish word when I'm not sure of the pronunciation.

Psychobabble attempts to redefine the entire English language just to make a correct statement incorrect. Psychology is the study of why someone would try to do this.

A mathematician is an individual who calls himself a 'physicist' and does 'physics' and physical experiments with abstract concepts.

Sports just happen to be excellent for avoiding foreign-language stage fright and developing lasting friendships while still sounding like Tarzan.

Nature is a word, an allegory, a mold, an embossing, if you will.

profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you.

If one believes that words are acts, as I do, then one must hold writers responsible for what their words do.

In the grammar of the phallus -- the I, I, I -- [woman] can't utter female experience.

The words. Why did they have to exist? Without them, there wouldn't be any of this.

A teacher of mine once said there are no true synonyms.

Words themselves are neutral. It's the charge we add to them that matters

Words themselves are all the ghosts we need.

I can feel the power of the words doing the work. Must trust language more.

In my dream, it was the tongue of what is, and anything spoken in it becomes real, because nothing said in that language can be a lie. It is the most basic building brick of everything.

Because without our language, we have lost ourselves. Who are we without our words?

We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we are to think conceptually.

If this hast been done to language, I fear to know the fate of all else.

So yes, I say things I regret constantly, and I just can't help it.

Two languages in one brain? No one can live at that speed!

Nobody believes me when I say that my long book is an attempt to create a world in which a form of language agreeable to my personal aesthetic might seem real. But it is true.

I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement.

Sometimes, language is the sound of longing

Now and again he spoke to those that served him and thanked them in their own language. They smiled at him and said laughing: 'Here is a jewel among hobbits!

Latin is already a dead language, man... don't make it any deader.

please don't cook me, kind sirs! I am a good cook myself, and cook better than I cook, if you see what I mean.

A misspelled word is probably an alias for some desperate call for aid, which is bound to fail.

If I could talk it like Dahoum, you would never be tired of listening to me.

What I tell you three times is true. What I tell you three million times is civilization.

We are all full of discourses that we only half understand and half mean.

There's no such thing as an unabridged dictionary.

No two of us learn our language alike, nor, in a sense, does any finish learning it while he lives.

Language is a serious weapon in shining and sharing Truth. It is also a serious weapon used in its distortion.

Humans are so innately hardwired for language that they can no more suppress their ability to learn and use language than they can suppress the instinct to pull a hand back from a hot surface.

The stars have their own language, you know. If you're careful, you can learn it.

Kaohinani is a Hawaiian word meaning “gatherer of beautiful things.

Communication is not so much about what you say, as what you don't say.

All language is an aspiration to music.

The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art.