Language Quotes

I know American football. I know a little bit about soccer. I know baseball, I know basketball. But, rugby is a foreign language.

Language from songs and TV shows feel integral because it helps to create the environment and describe the full picture.

I'm inspired by playwrights, novelists, poets: The value of language has been a lifelong passion of mine. I enjoy it. I'm good at it.

I've always loved rhyming. I love language.

I've always loved music and I love the language, which is a huge reason why I'm part of theater.

Punctuation is biological. It is the physical indication of the body-rhythms which the reader is to acknowledge.

I thought it was respectful to each country to sing in their language.

Poststructuralism. . . . is a form of literary criticism that uses elaborate wordplay to prove its central premise, that all language is internally contradictory and has no fixed meaning.

As writers we need to crack open language.

Language is the most beautiful and destructive thing because it allows you to express yourself, but it totally confuses everything.

Language,-human language,-after all is but little better than the croak and cackle of fowls, and other utterances of brute nature,-sometimes not so adequate.

Force is the only language the imperialists can hear, and no country became free without some sort of violence.

As you know, there are certain languages that lend themselves very easily to vocal use.

I think somebody who speaks the language is going to notice immediately that I'm not Russian.

Language is magic: it makes things appear and disappear.

...The plural of elf is elves! What a language! What a world!

I felt like I had reached the end of a period of life, where the work was jumping about and pushing something new every time. I wanted to dial it back and create a language that was stable and deep.

Language instruction should start in the first grade. Writing, also.

When you're around your family, and you have that history and that shared language, you say things you'd be embarrassed to hear quoted back to you later.

The syntactic component of a grammar must specify, for each sentence, a deep structure that determines its semantic interpretationand a surface structure that determines its phonetic interpretation.

If a child from an Amazonian hunter-gatherer tribe comes to Boston, is raised in Boston, that child will be indistinguishable in language capacities from my children growing up here, and vice versa.

The structure of language determines not only thought, but reality itself.

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

There's a tremendous amount of language loss. Most of the attention is given to indigenous languages, which makes sense, but some of the most dramatic language loss is in Europe.

Welsh is now almost a national language in Wales. The Scottish dialects are reviving to some extent. I don't think it's a major thing, but it's there, and it's happening elsewhere.

While language can surely be used for communication (as can much else), communication probably has no special role in its design or evolution.

Of course language arose in a Darwinian biological world, because that's all there is, but that world relates only superficially to the pop-biology that circulates informally.

Selfish-gene theory tells us nothing about the value of interacting through language.

It's true that language is in a sense linear but that is as obvious as perceptual space is three-dimensional.

I don't see how the study of language and literature can be separated from the question of free speech, which we all know is fundamental to our society.

Wherever illiteracy is a problem, it's as fundamental a problem as getting enough to eat or a place to sleep.

I had to know at least two languages.

I arrived in the middle of a press conference - as boring a thing to sit through if you don't know the language as it is if you do.

We like to pile language on language. Hunter [ S. Thompson] was an influence on me, no doubt about it.

The real truth about children is they don't speak the language very well. They're physically uncoordinated. And they are ignorant of our elaborate ideas about right and wrong.

There are no simple words. I don't know why I thought I could hide anything behind language.

But even in the schoolyard I'd been aware of that silence, that reserve in him, as though he'd been raised by foxes and language was his second language.

French was the only language we had in common, and even that was like a dialect we had picked up at a rummage sale, rusty and missing a lot of essential parts.

When a language die we don't know what we lose with language.

For me, language is something that I've always loved. When I read, that's what I look for. When I write, that's what I strive for.

I really want to adopt a child... I want to be called 'Mom.' It really is the most beautiful word in the English language.

Poetry doesn't function by saying things straightforwardly because the language is too imprecise, too limited often, to address the underlying subject of most poems.

I love the language. I'm just totally fascinated by the sound and the look of words and the kinds of cadences you can create with them, the various kinds of music.

Poetry uses language to create a music borne inside human experiences and emotions.

I think the language of science is highly lyrical and evocative and an important part of our lives in many ways.

To feel estranged from language is to lose your own body.

I wrote poems and an essay about that weird language. We still remember it to a certain extent, and it still comes up when we're all together. It's so fundamental to how I think.

I think language is the most important thing that human beings have ever accomplished, and the only thing that's really going to get us all out of the troubles that we find ourselves in.

All poetry is an ordered voice, one which tries to tell you about a vision in the un-visionary language of farm, city, and love.

Comedy is something that we can all share, no matter what language we speak or our background, it has the power to unite us all.