Language Quotes

Corporate identity specialists spend their time rechristening other companies, conducting a legal search and a linguistic search to insure that the name is not an insult in another language.

Well, language seems to be something that obsesses me. I'm always writing about it.

[Armenian] is a rich language, however, and would amply repay any one the trouble of learning it.

One must not assume that an understanding of science is present in those who borrow the language

Where our language suggests a body and there is none: there, we should like to say, is a spirit.

Our ordinary language has no means for describing a particular shade of color. Thus it is incapable of producing a picture of this color.

A propositional sign, applied and thought out, is a thought. A thought is a proposition with a sense.

The 2 timeless drivers that underpin the behavior of every generation: the need to belong and the need to be significant. The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

We must plow through the whole of language.

the translator, a lonely sort of acrobat, becomes confused in a labyrinth of paradox, or climbs a pyramid of dependent clauses and has to invent a way down from it in his own language.

If I was writing about an academic or a more difficult person, I would use the Latinate vocabulary more, but I do think Anglo-saxon is the language of emotion.

There is a lore simple and sure, that asks no discipline of weary years--the language of the soul, told through the eye.

It (the heart) is supposed in popular language, to be the seat sometimes, of courage, sometimes of affection, sometimes of honesty, or baseness.

When the play is still evolving I try to be at rehearsal as often as possible, and part of that casting process. You find new things when the language is living in different people's mouths.

Evidently an A level in English is a sacred trust, like something out of "The Lord of the Rings". You must go forth with your A level and protect the English language with your bow of elfin gold.

When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time slowly evolved.

Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.

Creativity needs time to harness before it goes out, and because that's difficult, memes have become the creative language.

Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication. -Aunt Beast

Like and equal are two entirely different things.

Because I am a storyteller I live by words. Perhaps music is a purer art form. It may be that when we communicate with life on another planet, it will be through music, not through language or words.

If only. The saddest two words in any language.

He cared for languages dead long enough that they wouldn’t change on him.

He left Chainsaw behind, much to her irritation. Ronan didn't want her to learn any bad language.

the intermittent breeze carried her scent to me again and again , singing in another language of memories from another form .

We Hindus and Mohamedans would have to blame our folly rather than the English, if we allowed them to put us asunder.

Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways.

I refuse to put the unnecessary strain of learning English upon my sisters for the sake of false pride or questionable social advantage.

Of all the superstitions that affect India, none is so great as that a knowledge of the English language is necessary for imbibing ideas of liberty and developing accuracy to thought.

I may fight the British ruler, but I do not hate the English or their language. In fact, I appreciate their literary treasures.

Non-co-operation is a movement intended to invite Englishmen to co-operate with us on honourable terms or retire from our land.

Swaraj means, a state such that we can maintain our separate existence without the presence of the English.

Man can only describe God in his own poor language.

A satyagrahi is sometimes bound to use language which is capable of two meanings, provided both the meanings are obvious and necessary and there is no intention to deceive anyone.

If we have listening ears, God speaks to us in our own language, whatever that language be

If you must kill English officials, why not kill me instead?

I claim to have been a lifelong and wholly disinterested friend of the British people.

My attitude towards the British is one of utter friendliness and respect.

The British are weak in numbers, we are weak in spite of our numbers.

My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention."

Languages proclaim that woman is half of man, and by parity of reasoning, man is half of woman.

I must fight unto the death the unholy attempt to impose British methods and British institutions on India.

The Indian struggle is not anti-British, it is anti-exploitation, anti-foreign rule, not anti-foreigners.

What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule.

Our nonviolence vis-а-vis the British Government has been the nonviolence of the weak.

The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule.

It was not through democratic methods that Britain bagged India.

To get rid of the infatuation for English is one of the essentials of Swaraj.

A smattering of English is worse than useless; it is an unnecessary tax on our women.

There is as much need for a change of heart among the Hindus and Mussalmans as there is among the British, before a proper settlement is arrived at.