Language Quotes

There's no bad writing; you did something. I was operating inside language, and I did something. I'm not ashamed of it.

As long as there are living human beings, there will be language and stories.

Thus, literature, together with language, preserves and protects a nation's soul.

Comedy is such a private thing; it's not always easy to translate something funny from one language to another. It's very personal and cultural as well.

The film [Boy and the World]gave me the possibility to create a new language. Animation is a very rich medium but hasn't fully been exploited by artists. Often artists are trapped by words.

One of the most frustrating words in the human language, as far as I could tell, was love" - Bethany

in prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning of the sublime language in which he invokes the pity of heaven!

The only authors whom I acknowledge as American are the journalists. They, indeed, are not great writers, but they speak the language of their countrymen, and make themselves heard by them.

Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are necessities.

All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and be alive to the life in language - on all its levels.

You can never tell about a person by guessing...that's why language was invented. Otherwise, we'd all be like dogs, sniffing each other to find out where we stood.

I don't really read as much as I used to. A lot of what I was looking for as an escape I find in writing. And the other thing is that I don't want to get into someone else's language when I'm working

The world was a cruder, more vulgar place than the one I had known. This was the language required to live in it, I supposed.

Mastery of the German language and the acceptance of our legal system has to become part of the criteria for naturalization.

Learn a language of another country and then you can go to that country: a place where the problems of your family will not follow. A language they do not speak.

In 'A Royal Affair' I had to learn to act like a queen and learned Danish. It's so much different to act in another language. It's the nuances in the words.

I like bringing poetry's focus on figurative language and compression into the essay. Of course, the musical properties of language, the cadence of the sentence, are really important to me in prose.

I think you have to find your own language. You find your footing with it, and you start to express it in certain ways.

Classical music is a special taste like Greek language or pre-Columbian archeology, not a common culture of reciprocal communication and psychological shorthand.

Only after my father's death could I speak my own individual truths about him. In a sense, I had to turn him into a character, a figure I could control through language.

The exchange of words is a lot like a virtual handshake. Is the writer's grasp of the language strong and bold? Are the words gripping? Direct? Inventive? Sincere?

One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language.

RIBALDRY, n. Censorious language by another concerning oneself.

Every language has influences and is an influence.

Hebrew is deeply inspired by other languages.

The very same book, even if it is translated very accurately, let's say from Hebrew into English or from English into Hebrew, becomes a different book because language is a musical instrument.

Literature belongs first and foremost to the language in which it is being written.

Literature exists inside the language. It's made of words.

Language is the tool of my trade -and I use them all - all the Englishes I grew up with

I definitely do see language serving its users, and when it no longer serves them we need to look for new words.

I've been thinking about going back to university. I need more tools to continue to apply to the music. I've got to open myself up to more language.

Although I could lament in the language and feelings of David for Absalom, I am constrained to say, peace to his manes. Let us weep for the living, and not for the dead.

Language is the currency of consciousness. We speak to fill the void. We write it down to remember.

Unencountered Language is the court and spark between words we recognize and those we don't.

The experience of being depressed and emerging from depression made me understand the idea of a soul. I felt that the language in which one could best acknowledge that drew from faith.

With children who have never said a word, parents tend to assume, for better or for worse, that there isn't any language there.

Just the attempt to learn a [new] language is like running different software through the brain.

I start by using Chinese and many of the sounds of other languages are similar.

I listened to a lot of tapes of British theatre actresses and tried to learn from them. As Americans, we don't have such a gift with language.

I think you always feel braver in another language.

I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators "the haute couture of language."

If grammar is medicine, then Roy Clark gives us the spoonful of sugar to help it go down. A wonderful tour through the labyrinth of language.

I’d thought I knew what beauty was in women; but she’d surpassed all the language I had for it.

Amazing what the British do with language; the nuances of politeness. The world's great diplomats, surely.

I like you; your eyes are full of language." [Letter to Anne Clarke, July 3, 1964.]

I'm drawn to the magical efficacies of language as a political act.

What I'm after is that wakeful state through language that stays alive.

It's so rich as a trope - the whole idea of the road and it being in terms of language, being an active experience.

Representative institutions are as much a part of the true Briton as his language and his literature.

Photography has escalated almost exponentially! It is a language which covers almost every aspect of communication; factual and expressive.