Language Quotes

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

My cat speaks sign language with her tail.

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.

The world's most famous and popular language is music.

I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can.

Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.

They took away our land, our language, and our religion; but they could never harness our tongues.

'I am' is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that 'I do' is the longest sentence?

Independent India's leaders will neither use a foreign language nor rule from a remote place.

I seek a form of language which will express my ideas for our time.

Life is not all high emotion. Some of the most interesting things are when its not highly emotional: little details of relationships and body language.

Destroying species is like tearing pages out of an unread book, written in a language humans hardly know how to read, about the place where they live.

People acquiring a second language have the best chance for success through reading.

The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a tapestry.

The shorter and the plainer the better.

Research shows that those kids who text frequently are more likely to be the most literate and the best spellers, because you have to know how to manipulate language.

When a person has an accent, it means he can speak one more language than you

More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English language than any other single factor.

There is your audience. There is the language. There are the words that they use.

We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.

Remember that one who forgets the language of gratitude can never be on speaking terms with happiness.

Horses are our silent partners. When we learn their language. This partnership grows strong.

To say a grid is limiting is to say that language is limiting, or typography is limiting. It is up to us to use these media critically or passively.

What you hear depends on how you focus your ear. We're not talking about inventing a new language, but rather inventing new perceptions of existing languages.

Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.

Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.

Sunday, the day for the language of leisure.

Every drop of human blood contains a history book written in the language of our genes.

At any one time language is a kaleidoscope of styles, genres and dialects.

There are no two words in the English language more harmful than good job.

Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.

My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.

Words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.

It's easy to talk to a horse if you understand his language. Horses stay the same from the day they are born until the day they die. They are only changed by the way people treat them.

As the language of the face is universal, so 'tis very comprehensive; no laconism can reach it: 'Tis the short hand of the mind, and crowds a great deal in a little room

We sit and talk quietly, with long lapses of silence, and I am aware of the stream that has no language, coursing beneath the quiet heaven of your eyes, which has no speech.

Language forces us to perceive the world as man presents it to us.

In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its own language.

Pedagogy, like language itself, can either liberate or imprison ideas, inspire of suffocate constructive thinking.

People have the idea that an image must stand for something else, that the real meaning needs to be described with language. Instead it is the image itself that is the meaning.

We cannot alter the essential shape of a single letter without at the same time destroying the familiar printed face of our language, and thereby rendering it useless.

Pictures rule, but words define, explain, express, direct, and hold together our thoughts and what we know.

A translation can never equal the original; it can approach it, and its quality can only be judged as to accuracy by how close it gets.

The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.

As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue.

Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.

Gone. The saddest word in the language. In any language.

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.

This is what language does: organize the world into manageable, and in some sense artificial, units that can then be inhabited and manipulated.