Language Quotes

Words once spoken can never be recalled.

A common language is a first step towards communication across cultural boundaries.

Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption.

The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened.

For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language.

As a graduate student, I wrote a long paper connecting the dots between mathematical models of learning and language development in children. It was published in a major journal.

I want a language that speaks the truth.

Any friendship or relationship is about a language.

What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man.

The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end.

Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.

Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back.

I'm not a lawyer, and maybe I should have used more specific legal language.

In the United States there's not a lot of people interested in foreign language films. Every time, it's more difficult for foreign language films to survive here.

The English language took in many many fertilizations, many many genes, from other languages, from foreign languages - Latin, French, Nordic languages, German, Scandinavian languages.

He is, I think, already pondering a magisterial project: that of buggering the English language, the ultimate revenge of the colonialised.

George Orwell once blamed the demise of the English language on politics. It's quite possible he never read a prospectus.

Learn to feel sorry for music because, although it is the international language, it has no swear words.

I'm keen on making English language movies. English is still the global language and we can't change that.

If I were really fluent and born into the English language, I would probably become a greater writer.

Naturally, my body language changes given whatever environment I'm in.

The New Oxford Dictionary has declared Sarah Palin's word 'refudiate' to be the 2010 Word of the Year. Palin was honored and said she would do her best to 'dismangle' the English language.

There is the English language and then there's the Trump language.

My subconscious speaks in a foreign language.

I was also in love with the English language.

In the Trump language, words change their meaning day by day depending on his own political needs.

The most important word in the English language is hope.

You cannot write in more than one language. Words don't come out as well.

[Donald Trump] said that he has intelligence briefings. He's heard stuff that body language. It's very wild to me.

Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?

I have learnt to appreciate the clarity of English language.

Regardless of whether one is dealing with assembly language or compiler language, the number of debugged lines of source code per day is about the same!

I've always been so intrigued by French language and how it completely changes you, because of cultural context, because of humor.

Systems of morals are only a sign-language of the emotions.

Has it ever occurred to you,' he said, 'that the whole history of English poetry has been de-termined by the fact that the English language lacks rhymes?

The English language is not always the President's friend.

Literacy, written language is a very late acquisition in terms of human evolution.

My career did start in the Spanish language industry, and that's probably because my father is my manager. He pushed my career in the direction he knew best.

I love John Ashbery. He's the - really the poet laureate of English language poetry, whether he's given that or not, he is to me.

Oh, God, I don't know what's more difficult, life or the English language.

The N-word is one of the most contentious words in the English language.

C is the assembly language of Tcl.

It's great that in the German language I've sold almost 30 million books. Isn't that amazing?

French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me.

Music is indeed the Universal Language.

You can prove anything by mentioning another computer language.

The canker has so eaten into the society that in many cases the only meaning of education is a knowledge of English.

The English language is so elastic that you can find another word to say the same thing.

However virile the English language may be, it can never become the language of the masses of India.

My plea is for banishing the English language as a cultural usurper, as we successfully banished the political rule of the English usurper.