Language Quotes

Beautiful books are always written in a sort of foreign language.

The English language is full of words that are just waiting to be misspelled, and the world is full of sticklers, ready to pounce.

Socialist ideology is making France go to pot, and the French language with it.

I always feel like music should be a universal language.

I could speak Spanish fluently growing up, but I'm so out of practice, and I have such a tremendous respect for songwriting in the Spanish language.

Myspace alone has just over 80 million users and ranks as the sixth most popular English language website and the eighth most popular site in the world.

Making a movie is universal. Directing a movie is universal; it's a universal language.

[Emacs] is written in Lisp, which is the only computer language that is beautiful.

We should replace bilingual education with immersion in English so people learn the common language of the country and they learn the language of prosperity, not the language of living in a ghetto.

If you adopt the body language of a power player, it will greatly facilitate your ability to be a power player.

Sometimes you're not in the best environment. Sometimes you're not speaking the same language and it's not a good place to work. It's a lot to give, actually. And for not a lot of money.

I love literature, the English language and storytelling. I also have thirty horses and seventy foxhounds to feed.

Duty is the sublimest work in the English language.

English, no longer an English language, now grows from many roots.

The American language differs from the English in that it seeks the top of expression while English seeks its lowly valleys.

Music is a universal language.

It is music that, being the universal language, has no need to learn any particular language of the world.

Music is the language of God. God's language, music, is not like mathematics or geometry. It is a language of love. If we love music, that is enough.

95% on content and the computer language remains the same.

Is there no room for art in the spoken language? What is the use of creating an unnatural language to the exclusion of the natural one?

I do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not allow me to take.

I figure if kids see a movie about 12-year-olds chopping each other up, they can probably see a movie where everyone keeps their clothes on and doesn't use foul language.

No instance exists of a person's writing two language perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to him in his youth.

It is one of those things that is universally connectable, people can connect to it from everywhere; music is like that universal language.

The first time I went to Mexico, it was really difficult. Number one is the language, I didn't know any Spanish language. Of course, the culture itself. Very different from where I grew up.

Regret; The saddest word in the English language.

The old adage, that "music is a universal language", is really true.

That old adage, that "music is a universal language", is really true. Even if all of the lyrics are understood, they seem to connect with it really well and in some ways, more so.

Having an international voice is not really about whether we speak Persian or any other language.

Don’t use the language of ‘good’ or ‘bad’ when talking about blood sugar numbers – these are data points, not judgments of your ability to manage your diabetes.

Gore speaks to America as if English is its second language; George W. speaks as if English is his second language.

It's the sort of subject that always interests me: jealousy and the language of suspicion and guilt. I think it interests people.

I use the language I use to my friends. They wouldn't believe me if I used some high-flown literary language. I want them to believe me.

Language is as real, as tangible, in our lives as streets, pipelines, telephone switchboards, microwaves, radioactivity, cloning laboratories, nuclear power stations.

Go back so far there is another language go back far enough the language is no longer personal.

I always feel like I don't know how to express myself. I need to be with people that understand my language.

Twitter is most suitable for me. In the Chinese language, 140 characters is a novella.

Without doubt, the mightiest thought the mind can entertain is the thought of God, and the weightest word in any language is its word for God.

When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It's nourishing; it's rejuvenating.

Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.

I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language, I expect them to have read books - there are a lot of people like that! That's my audience.

When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it's funny in any language.

I have three tools at my disposal - my whistle, my body language and my talk. It is a question of how I marry them up to try to get the players around to my way of thinking.

I distrust speech therapy. Words are the language of lies and evasions. Music cannot lie. Music talks to the heart.

As sheer casual reading matter, I still find the English dictionary the most interesting book in our language.

I consider myself a pretty good conversationalist, but you wind up being downgraded to idiot status when you don't speak the language!

I want a book to contain a world - indeed the world. Writing is my main means of engagement with the world and I want the scars of that engagement to be left in the language.

We, as writers, have to figure out a way to create a consciousness in language. It's crazy even to attempt to do that.

Language is so inherent to humanity, so necessary for even basic thinking, that stories and poetry are available to anyone who can process language.

Literature is always something - it is either story or poetry, ideally both. That is, you always know what it is and even if the interpretation is not available, the experience of language is.