Language Quotes

The book of nature is written in the language of mathematics.

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

The past is always tense, the future perfect.

There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a particular language or style and become real sharks on somebody else's language.

I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.

A landscape image cuts across all political and national boundaries, it transcends the constraints of language and culture.

Whenever we can make 25 words do the work of 50, we halve the area in which looseness and disorganization can flourish.

The language that photography has is a formal language. Any photographer is doing something formal. If it's formal, then it must be an aesthetic way to communicate.

I dislike pastiche; it attracts attention to the language only.

Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public.

Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.

Without language, thought is a vague, uncharted nebula.

Unintelligible language is a lantern without a light.

The language of the face is not taught by the schools; it is intuitive, and to the observant is always legible.

Photography is a universal language, transcending the boundaries of race, politics, and nationality.

Ours is the age of substitutes: Instead of language we have jargon; instead of principles, slogans; and instead of genuine ideas, bright suggestions.

There was no language barrier when it came to kids, and when it came to play.

All Gaul is divided into three parts, one of which the Belgae inhabit, the Aquitani another, those who in their own language are called Celts, in ours Gauls, the third.

I believe that laughter is a language of God and that we can all live happily ever laughter.

Language is surely too small a vessel to contain these emotions of mind and body that have somehow awakened a response in the spirit.

Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection.

For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond.

Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage.

A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.

when a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world.

We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.

Well, I like how people talk. I like language. You know, Linda Richman spoke in Yiddish.

Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.

I thought that subtitles are boring because they're there generally to serve us with information to make you understand what people are saying in a different language.

A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection - not an invitation for hypnosis.

Two monologues do not make a dialogue.

I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.

Where shall we look for standard English, but to the words of a standard man?

We are writing stories with light and darkness, motion and colors. It is a language with its own vocabulary and unlimited possibilities for expressing our inner thoughts and feelings.

I was always getting run-down from jet lag and being in strange towns where I didn't speak the language or know what the food was like.

Assange is not a 'journalist' any more than the 'editor' of al-Qaeda's new English-language magazine 'Inspire' is a 'journalist.' He is an anti-American operative with blood on his hands.

If you don’t have at least a working knowledge of the Hawaiian language… you can’t chant well. You cannot… receive the images of poetry paints for you. It’s like having peas and no pod.

It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning.

You can't see other people's point of view when you have only one language.

Tears have cleansed my eyes, and errors have taught me the language of the hearts.

Music gives us a language that cuts across the disciplines, helps us to see connections and brings a more coherent meaning to our world.

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.

Time changes all things; there is no reason why language should escape this universal law

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Perhaps of all the creations of man language is the most astonishing.

My cat speaks sign language with her tail.

Beliefs, and the feelings that we have about them, are the language that "speaks" to the quantum stuff that makes our realty.

The louder our world today is, the deeper God seems to remain in silence. Silence is the language of eternity; noise passes.