Language Quotes

For me music is totally freeing, and it's its' own language too. You follow it, in a way.

Faith is the physical description of God. That's what He is. It's the only word we have in our language to accurately describe His physical form.

In order for architecture to experience its ongoing evolution as a language, there has to be a lot of adjusted copies between how architects draw, think, engage bylaws and constraints.

I think of architecture as language, and I look within the intra-communication between architects.

Jokes spread around the world and embed themselves in our shared culture; the most resonant of them get lodged in the language in the same way as clichés or old wives' tales do.

To create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language - That's who I am. That's what I am doing. That's my life goal.

If you want to know what's important to a culture, learn their language.

Describing certain sounds, there's a common language that guitar players have.

I've always had a fondness for language... English. Not that I use it correctly but I like words. I like books and I like poetry.. I like the written word... and the sung word.

Without language we would have no reason, without reason no religion, and without these three essential aspects of our nature, neither mind nor bond of society.

I curse all negative purism that tells me not to use a word from another language that either expresses something that my own language cannot or does that in a more delicate manner.

What must the English and French think of the language of our philosophers when we Germans do not understand it ourselves?

Every human being born within the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen.

Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.

Language exists only when it is listened to as well as spoken. The hearer is an indispensable partner.

The bare fact that language consists of sounds which are mutually intelligible is enough of itself to show that its meaning depends upon connection with a shared experience.

I trade both with the living and the dead, for the enrichment of our native language.

A thing well said will be wit in all languages.

That's the beauty and the terror of being human beings: We just have these symbolic languages, these dreams, and that's all it ever is.

Our thoughts, our language, are always at a distance from whatever they're trying to describe. We have other kinds of languages, like mathematics, like music, like art, but there's always that gap.

In the dark days and darker nights when England stood alone-and most men save Englishmen despaired of England's life-he [Churchill] mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.

Even as a supporter of Roe v. Wade, I am compelled to acknowledge that the language both sides use on this subject can be unfortunately misleading and unconstructive.... Everyone is worse off for it.

If and perhaps.... The language of procrastination and uncertainty. That's just people looking to justify their own lack of action.

For proverbs are the pith, the proprieties, the proofs, the purities, the elegancies, as the commonest so the commendablest phrases of a language. To use them is a grace, to understand them a good.

Language buries, but does not resurrect.

Dutch is not so much a language as an ailment of the throat.

The French verb aimer has two meanings. And that’s why he liked her, and loved her. She spoke to him in a language that, no matter how hard you studied it, could not be completely understood.

A child, when it begins to speak, learns what it is that it knows.

The only thing that exists is torment, lyricism, and the magnificence of language.

And don't confound the language of the nation with long-tail'd words in osity and ation.

[Alfred] Hitchcock was very interested in the image on the screen.As is any good cinema director. That is the language they speak. It is not literature, it is images on screen.

I do know where I'm going and it's just a matter of finding the language to get there.

When people say that German or any other language is romantic... all they really mean is that they've enjoyed a past in the language

Ideas do not respect national frontiers, and this is especially so where language and other traditions are in common.

Using language like jungle growth isn't the solution to telling a story.

Language should be pure, noble and graceful, as the body should be so: for both are vestures of the Soul.

Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that.

To possess another language is to possess another soul.

I don't use coarse language very often. I have a larger vocabulary than that.

As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore. Or if I would delight my private hours With music or with poem, where so soon As in our native language can I find That solace?

Landale's language burns away the mists of the past, preparing a place of welcome for our ghosts.

Net neutrality: The only two words that promise more boredom in the English language are 'featuring Sting,'

Many thoughts are so dependent upon the language in which they are clothed that they would lose half their beauty if otherwise expressed.

I don't see myself as experimenting in any conscious way, it's perhaps that certain books require different densities of language.

Music crosses cultures and language barriers and it makes people feel good.

Language. By this we build pyramids, fight battles, ordain and administer laws, shape and teach religion, and knit man to man, cultivate each other, and ourselves.

The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century and able to read this language. It makes any list meaningless except the list of an illiterate.

What other creature, besides the lion, the tiger, and the whale, can answer Creation in its own language?

[Phil Wood] was a great artist, and he knew things. He could be mildly conversant in several languages.

I grew up speaking both languages, and for me that's really important.