Language Quotes

I usually just speak in English when I'm on the basketball court. For some reason, my mind never even tried to cross any other language when I'm playing basketball.

Being a pianist allows me to play in any language.

The radio was my big influence. Comedy came from the instinctual feel I had for language.

I had no idea what they were saying in Italian as a child, they spoke too quickly on the radio. But I realized that language was very funny.

Language is butchered by the media

It is part of the business of marketing to muddy the distinction between altruism and cynicism.

I like to flip through play scripts, not just my own; there is something exciting about seeing printed language on a page that triggers responses in me.

I had always suspected language was quite limited in its ability to communicate the intricate mysteries of truth.

Unfortunately, we're using the same language to talk about the language we'retalking about.

And let me tell you 'Kingdom of God' language is really big in the emerging church.

I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words, I think, are very powerful and they convey an intention.

Language evolves and moves on. It is an organic thing. It is not stuck in an ivory tower, hung with expensive works of art.

Ah, but you see, I didn't want to be fair.

Mozart's music is the mysterious language of a distant spiritual kingdom, whose marvelous accents echo in our inner being and arouse a higher, intensive life.

Grammar is the analysis of language.

Sallust is indisputably one of the best historians among the Romans, both for the purity of his language and the elegance of his style.

Under the tropic is our language spoke, And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our yoke.

Progress-progress is the dirtiest word in the language-who ever told us- And made us believe it-that to take a step forward was necessarily, was always A good idea?

The one overall structure in my plays is language

You have to learn the language of Hamlet.

I tend more towards what some people call literary science fiction, but what I mean by that is that it is full of interesting language, experimentation, and ideas.

Language is the leading principle which unites or separates the tribes of mankind.

Greek is a musical and prolific language, that gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy.

Greek is doubtless the most perfect [language] that has been contrived by the art of man.

I think fiction goes to poetry for the intensity of its use of language.

I don't think poetry will die, but I think that poetry does demand a certain kind of attention to language.

Language is the memory of man. Without it he has no past, a paltry present, and an empty future. With it he can bring his dreams to life.

As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and is in no better case than a constructed language.

Were a language ever completely "grammatical" it would be a perfect engine of conceptual expression. Unfortunately, or luckily, no language is tyrannically consistent. All grammars leak.

Where Nature's end of language is declin'd, And men talk only to conceal the mind.

Will America be the death of English? I'm glad I asked me that. My well-thought-out mature judgment is that it will.

Language the most forcible proceeds from the man who is most sincere. The way to speak with power, or to write words that pierce mankind to the quick, is to speak and write honestly.

I come from a tradition - from the Jewish tradition, which believes in words, in language, in communication.

Expressing emotion is not so easy. He has to remind himself that English is not her first language. Expressing emotion can be difficult even when the words are familiar.

Anthony Doerr again takes language beyond mortal limits.

Don't you understand that all language is dead currency? How they keep on playing shop with it all the same.

I want to learn how to speak Italian. For years, I'd wished I could speak Italian--a language I find more beautiful than roses :)

I find vocabulary to be a great drawback.

There is no language that love does not speak.

English is a forgiving language. It's not like Classical Arabic and it's not like French. You can speak broken English and be expressive and no one will hold it against you.

We inhabit a language rather than a country.

One doesn't live in a country, one lives in a language.

Abstraction is itself an abstract word and has no single meaning ... Every word in our language is abstract, because it represents something else.

language can't be appropriated by one person, one poet. The words belong to all of us.

Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket.

C is not clean – the language has many gotchas and traps, and although its semantics are simple in some sense, it is not any cleaner than the assembly-language design it is based on.

C++ is a language strongly optimized for liars and people who go by guesswork and ignorance.

Language is a nice way to remember things.

All language is a popularity contest.

I have always felt cookbooks were fiction and the most beautiful words in the English language were 'room service.