Language Quotes

The Britisher is the top dog and the Indian the underdog in his own country.

That I want to destroy British imperialism is another matter, but I want to do so by converting those who are associated with it.

India is less manly under the British rule than she ever was before.

The British power is the overlord without whom Indian princes cannot breathe.

My personal religion enables me to serve my countrymen without hurting the English or, for that matter, anybody else.

Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.

Documentary has been a way for me to establish myself as a filmmaker. It's my way of proving that I have a language, that I can say something through film.

Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.

Action is the language of the body and should harmonize with the spirit within.

poetry is where the language is renewed.

A language is everything you do.

Eating is our earliest metaphor, preceding our consciousness of gender difference, race, nationality, and language. We eat before we talk.

I have a song about how much I hate emojis and the lazy thinking of people who use them. I wish that more people had respect for the English language.

Political correctness sometimes does great work when it helps equalize the playing field when it comes to language, but it does a great disservice when it tries to silence a person of color.

There are a lot of reasons people don't talk about climate change. One of them has to do with the language of science, and people feeling not competent about this issue.

Silence is the language of inertia.

Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the words inside my thoughts.

Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other.

The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.

I couldn't live without music. I experienced things through music in different countries where you cannot speak the same language, but the music and the dance relates everything.

The language of the novel differs from the just-the-facts language of the old tales. It's robust and earthy, sometimes even baroque.

I'm pretty good with languages.

Drawing - it's the first language of human beings, before writing, before even talking, before words, human beings was drawing.

The language in a comic book or a graphic novel and the cinematographic language are really not the same language. They are false brother and sister. It's not at all the same.

Poetry is ... the physical enactment of a process of knowing by means of language.

As my Buddhist teachers have shown me, wisdom emerges in the space around words as much as from language itself.

I taught high school English for 24 years. I always teach my students to appreciate the beauty of language and to write poetically.

Kindness is a language herd by deaf men and felt by blind men.

There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry.

My interest is in how meaning is communicated via language, and I believe the shape, positioning, even the color of the language has an effect on meaning.

I feel that I speak the musical language.

Typography tended to alter language from a means of perception and exploration to a portable commodity.

Language always preserves a play or figure/ground relation between experience, and perception and its replay in expression.

Economists get impatient with philosophy. They are often trained as skilled mathematicians. They don't like going back to ordinary language and first principles.

I think those of us who use language are always trying for this, trying to keep everything from floating away by trying to write about it despite failure.

Language is as fragile as the little alpine plant.

I'm always somehow drawn to that sense of how fragile things are and how a garden means so differently depending upon whose language you happen to be in or whose century you happen to be in.

A riot is the language of the unheard. On blacks in America; address at Birmingham AL

Aaron Sorkin very sticky about using precise language. It's in his contract: you have to use what he writes!

If you cannot live without justification, you cannot live; period. And the path towards it is the path of language.

I speak to you in one tongue/ but every moment that ever mattered to me/ occurred in another language.

A poem really does recreate the language, and that's what it has to do. A true poem, I think, has to give you that shiver. That, "yes, it's never been said quite that way before."

And of course the word love has many shades of meaning, as do many, many of the words in our living, breathing language

What is love at first sight but a proof of the powerful but silent language of physiognomy?

God doesn't need verbal language for communication.

Indulge me, John. Cynicism and foul language are the only vices I'm presently capable of. Everything else takes energy or money.

However great one's gift of language may be, there is always something that one cannot tell.

Nobody knows everything-one of the pleasures of language is that there is always something new to learn-and everybody makes mistakes.

The language of the poem is the language of particulars.

Yes, the mistrust of poetry has a long history, for a variety of reasons, but they all come down to sentiment and invention over fact and truth. Figurative language is suspicious.