Language Quotes

You know, I think music is very interactive. It's a - it's a language.

Music is the language of all. It tames the savage beast and allows us to get over heartbreak. It helps us express what we really want to say and it has the power to lift hearts and awaken our souls.

It makes sense to me that the polyglot wouldn't know what language he dreamed in.

I hope we can all overcome any differences of culture, race, and language.

Some changes of language are to be regretted, as they lead to false inferences, and society is always a loser by mistaking names for things.

The Biblical worldview is not given to us in the discursive and analytical language of philosophy and science, but in rich and compact language of symbolism and art.

If the Irish programme did not insist on the Irish language I suppose I could call myself a nationalist. As it is, I am content torecognize myself an exile: and, prophetically, a repudiated one.

Oh, God, if I were sure I were to die tonight I would repent at once. It is the commonest prayer in all languages.

But those two plays left me on fresh terms with language. I didn't always have to speak in my own voice.

Is there not something wanted, Miss Price, in our language - a something between compliments and - and love - to suit the sort of friendly acquaintance we have had together?

Poems' deep work is a matter of language, but also a matter of life. One part of that work is to draw into our awareness and into language itself the unobvious and the unexpected.

I think of the irony that in our language [Nepali] the word for love can also mean deceit.

Photography has clarity in the same way that language has. A word is precise, but its meaning can change based on the words around it: think tank, tank top.

We all laugh and cough with the same language and will die with the same language as well!

Saddam Hussein also challenged President Bush to a debate. The Butcher of Baghdad vs. the Butcher of the English language.

I'm telling you, I could teach at a university, [George] Carlin, a whole semester. The construction and deconstruction of the words, the language, the order.

The writer's first affinity is not to a loyalty, a tradition, a morality, a religion, but to life itself, and to its representation in language.

The noblest deeds are well enough set forth in simple language; emphasis spoils them.

Languages are the keys of science.

Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understanding of her language

I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature.

When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies.

Language is what stops the heart exploding.

…only a poet could frame a language that could frame a world.

Art is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar. We have to recognize that the language of art, all art, is not our mother tongue.

There were words for what he meant to me, but if I studied every language ever spoken for the next thousand years, I still wouldn’t find enough of them to describe it.

I have said that Mr. Trump's language is divisive.

You might be a redneck if your grandmother has ever been asked to leave a bingo game because of her language.

Just heard the best word in the English language: benign. (And I don't need to see that doctor again for five years.)

The Opera reminds me of my tax audit. It was in a language I didn’t understand. And it ended in tragedy.

Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling.

I'm the final clause in a periodic sentence, and that sentence begins a long time ago, in another language, and you to read it from the beginning to get to the end, which is my arrival.

I want it absolutely clear when I stand before the judgement bar of God that I declared to the world, in the most straightforward language I could summon, that the Book of Mormon is true.

My first language is both English and Spanish. My mom was raised in Los Angeles, so with her we spoke English, but my father was born in Cuba, so with him we spoke Spanish.

Interpreting at its core is taking in one language and putting out the other.

All media can muddy the mind. Language leads to literature. It also leads to dogma.

TV shapes thought as surely as language shapes it.

I got really interested in the language used in blogs written by young girls - a young person's aggression, which is always lacking from the visual world.

Truth is the band of union and the basis of human happiness. Without this virtue there is no reliance upon language, no confidence in friendship, no security in promises and oaths.

If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.

In the last 100 years since the invention of sound reproduction, music has really taken off and it is much more a common language because of records and transportation.

That's part of that thing of transcending languages. Every person will have their own language.

Photography was the first foreign language of my artistic expression.

I suppress in my prose any language which calls attention to itself.

[Nabokov's] language is made visible . . . like a veil or transparent curtain. You cannot help seeing the curtain as you peek into the intimate rooms behind.

I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative language, which goes against the trend in fiction.

There are a lot of colloquialisms in the Cantonese language that can never be represented aptly in Mandarin.

The market is like a language, and you have to be able to understand what they're saying.

I often use official documents or bureaucratic forms within my work. I find their structure and language style leaves a lot of room for poetry and my own interpretation.

I don't use those terms [like Uncle Tom], and I would never speak in that kind of language.