Language Quotes

You should take notes whenever you hear interesting or original language.

There are many other ways in which language can be used to manipulate an audience. one obvious way is to simply lie.

I like to be in a European city where I can speak my language.

All language begins with speech, and the speech of common men at that, but when it develops to the point of becoming a literary medium it only looks like speech.

I have that language and that set of skills to step out of the way and make music the priority.

Once I started singing, I realized it was a language I'd forgotten I could speak.

The language of religion holds the most currency for the masses.

Next to God, love is the word most mangled in every language. The highest form of regard between two people is friendship, and when love enters, friendship dies.

Next to ‘God’, ‘love’ is the word most mangled in every language.

Language is the close-fitting dress of thought.

The love of our own language, what is it, in fact, but the love of our country expressing itself in one particular direction?

My father taught me things about body language that psychologists have been catching up with ever since. He always knew when I was lying, because my posture was all wrong.

Some days you exist like the last speaker of an extinct language. These are the silences that litter the heart.

Clear language engenders clear thought, and clear thought is the most important benefit of education.

If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave.

Mathematics is a language plus reasoning. It's like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.

Mexico was most powerfully my father's smile and not, as you might otherwise imagine, not language, not pigment.

The fact that I speak five languages is just a plus. I do not try to speak every language I know, in every movie. It must make sense. But, the fact that it's available gives a nice back-up.

That's the main business of the poem!-to see if you can't make up a language that sets all your selves talking at once-all of them being fair to each other.

I can understand bitchiness in any language.

You know, we have main English language parties, federalist parties, and traditionally the ones to watch would be the Conservatives, who form the government, and then the Liberals.

That's one of the ways language evolved, by some very obscure form becoming common usage. And I must say that I'm very intrigued by use of language and slang, and criminal underground terms.

Human suffering is articulated in language; communication is how we seek help, consolation, etc.

I write poetry. It comes naturally to me, but from a technical point of view it forces me to pay close attention to language and to scan.

Language is decanted and shared. If only one person is left alive speaking a language - the case with some American Indian languages - the language is dead. Language takes two and their multiples.

English is weak in describing emotional states or intensities of interpersonal relationships.

The racism in South Asia is the most specific racism in the world. It's like racism against a slightly different language group. It's like micro-racism.

I had to learn American sign language. And I did stuff in it, stuff that was just for me and was fun, that I don't think anyone would ever notice.

I had no voice to talk with because she was my whole language.

Library Science is the key to all science, just as mathematics is its language - and civilization will rise or fall, depending on how well librarians do their jobs.

And we live in a kind of realm of language and words and so forth. So we can sort of relate to them. They don't exist without us. We create words.

If a language is corruptible, then a constitution written in that language is corruptible.

Literature in the written sense represents the triumph of language over writing: the subversion of writing for purposes that have little or nothing to do with social and economic control.

There's a theory, and I think the theory is right, that in order to make a change you've got to make the whole language of the page harmonious. Well, that's a lot easier with a computer.

It has been discovered that C++ provides a remarkable facility for concealing the trival details of a program - such as where its bugs are.

Of course the other and more serious way in which it all happens is that one finds in poems and language some quality one appropriates for oneself and wishes to reproduce.

Yes, living voices in a living language, so it seemed to us.

Linguistic philosophers continue to argue that probably music is not a language, that is in the philosophical debate. Another point of view is to say that music is a very profound language.

I heard someone say he [Carl Sandburg] was the kind of writer who had everything to gain and nothing to lose by being translated into another language.

There's a cool web of language winds us in, Retreat from too much joy or too much fear: We grow sea-green at last and coldly die In brininess and volubility.

There was writing and foreign languages. I always had an ease with foreign languages. So the both are related, both language related kind of mind.

Art after all is but an extension of language to the expression of sensations too subtle for words.

When you play somebody, you pick up a lot of their gestures, his voice, the way he speaks, his body language. You don't often get that opportunity.

In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out.

A culture is not only the language and the arts of a people. It is all their history, all their hopes for the future.

You would not serve junk food at a banquet, and your book must be a banquet. Get your language from Swift, not from Shopsy's.

Words have power. Use the language of leadership versus the vocabulary of a victim.

Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech.

As a language, Garbo's singularity was of the order of the concept, that of Audrey Hepburn is of the order of the substance; the face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn, an Event.

The act of vagabonding is not an isolated trend so much as it is a spectral connection between people long separated by place and time, but somehow speaking the same language.