Language Quotes

I am learning the Language of World and everything in the world is beginning to make sense to me

Language is my bugbear. Everyone says things now like 'I was sat' instead of 'I was sitting', which just sounds so ugly.

My mother was a barmaid and I was raised in a trailer park. I'm used to that language. I put it on the screen so that people could interpret it as they wish.

I worked in a bookstore in Oslo, importing the English-language books.

I want guys who want to be here. I want guys who are energetic and passionate. I didn't see any passion from Todd. You could tell form his body language that he didn't want to be here.

What is important-what lasts-in another language is not what is said but what is written. For the essence of an age, we look to its poetry and its prose, not its talk shows.

No child is capable of speech until he has heard other human beings speak, and even two infants reared together cannot develop a language from scratch.

People who speak the same language can hate one another as easily as can people who speak unrelated languages.

Language does not stand still. Surprisingly, despite this knowledge, most speakers are fearful of change.

What I liked about Greece was [...] the impressive force of the language itself, unconfined by dictionaries, spoken in the streets, in cafés and in the country.

History is not a nightmare from which. I am trying to awaken, but rather, a glorious tale which I wish to be cast in.

A poem is a form of refrigeration that stops language going bad.

Further, I'm obsessed with how language contorts and creates bodies.

Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.

It's always been easy with Mark, he's a rock fan and we speak the same language. He's a big Beatles fan too. We worked a lot via CLI calls, though only meeting up once every couple of months.

For a pragmatist like me, the important issues concern the words we might deploy to achieve our purposes, rather than the language we actually use.

When it comes to telling children stories, they don’t need simple language. They need beautiful language.

One of the things I tend to do is open myself up to a variety of voices. I try to expose myself to the kind of culture shock that occurs when you talk to people who speak a different language.

I think you have to be very careful getting the balance right if you're going to talk about grand themes like war, death and nationhood. You need to use the right language or don't do it at all.

I would listen most particularly to the countries whose language I didn't understand, didn't know what they were singing. But being a singer myself, I could understand because of the emotion.

I'm really into production and I'm also into producing my own sound because the sonics, in a way, is the language.

Music has always been a big part of my life, it moves me, it educates me and it makes me grow. It is a fantastic language to help you explore ideas.

I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.

Usage is the best language teacher.

Bride knoweth bride at the glance of an eye. And between them swiftly passes comfort and meaning in a language that man and widows wot not of.

Language lies outside of society because it is its foundation; but it also lies within society because that is the only place where it exists and the only place where it develops.

I learned Spanish at home and, since half my family doesn't speak English, it's my first language.

Each actor requires a different language.

I don't feel restricted by the language: I feel more free.

Parallel cinema has not made an effort to communicate in a language the other person understands.

You who speak languages, you are such liars.

He would always speak the language of the heart with an awkward foreign accent.

The sole constitutional office of language being to express our ideas and sentiments, it becomes more and more perfect and useful, the more effectually it subserves this sole end of its creation.

The Americans are identical to the British in all respects except, of course, language.

I am Irish by race but the English have condemned me to talk the language of Shakespeare.

Fools laugh at the Latin language. -Rident stolidi verba Latina

Drizzt had always suspected it, but now it was confirmed, that "welcome" was his favortie word in the Common Tongue, and a word, he understood with no equivalent in the language of the drow.

To become a mother is to learn a whole language - to relearn it, perhaps, as it was the tongue to which we were born - and hence gain entrance to a forgotten world of comprehension.

Ive got many different voices - I have a Southern girl, an Irish girl. I have a gibberish language that youd have to decipher. I guess I try to never take myself too seriously.

A great artist can really enter the logic of any particular mazurka and fully understand the language of Chopin's music.

The moment you enter into the world of words you start falling away from that which is. The more you enter into language, the farther you are away from existence.

The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language. ... In due time, the fraud is manifest, and words lose all power to stimulate the understanding or the affections.

An answer in words is delusive; it is really no answer to the questions you ask.

For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead.

Every word was once a poem. Every new relation is a new word.

The language of the street is always strong.

When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and savages.

The use of natural history is to give us aid in supernatural history: the use of the outer creation, to give us language for the beings and changes of the inward creation.

Observe how every truth and every error, each a thought of someone's mind, clothes itself with societies, houses, cities, language, ceremonies, newspapers

Among provocatives, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching. I have even more thoughts during or enduring it than at other times.