Language Quotes
Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.
Collaborating with someone who doesn't understand your language nor you theirs stretches you open even wider, into a sort of very large free fall.
By emphasizing the importance of a common language, we safeguard a proud legacy and help to ensure that America's future will be as great as her past.
I wanted to be the writer in the room setting depth charges of feeling out the world with my language.You know, I had a very romantic idea about that.But I grew into being a performer.
If words are to change their meanings, as assuredly they are, let each user of language make such changes as please himself, put up his own suggestions, and let the best win.
If I could have any power, I think flying would definitely be up there! Along with speaking every language.
Non-reaction is a language that everyone understands. It communicates to the offender and causes him to be upset with the upset that he intended for you.
I really believe amendment " to make English our common and unifying language" is racist. I think it's directed basically to people who speak Spanish.
The operas I listen to aren't in English, and I want to listen to my opera after I'm done with it. I want to have the desire to play it on the stereo. To me, the language is part of the mystery.
Where two nations are gonna have a summit and a joint agreement's gonna be announced, the joint agreement and the language is all decided before the summit ever happens.
The language doesn't mean anything anymore, folks. Truth doesn't mean anything anymore.
Long words, fat talk they may tell us something about ourselves. Has the passion for fat in the language increased as self-confidence has waned?
The young cult of sociology, needing a language, invented one. There are many dead languages, but the sociologists' is the only language that was dead at birth.
I do have a regard for the musicality of language that came from BBC sitcoms like 'Fawlty Towers.'
language is magical - it's a form of conjuring. If you do it convincingly, readers will follow you.
For me, language and how I use it are very important. I held back on doing a poetry book, walking the fine line between trying to be helpful and just putting more junk out there.
A picture book is a story told in two languages - word and image. And the illustration is the front door of the book.
Bad impulse buys make you feel grim, don't they? It's like having consumer Tourette's. I gravitate towards austere foreign-language film DVDs when insecure.
The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insists upon the freedom to portray and analyze the struggle between the different contestants for such privileges.
I discovered that if you find the language to talk to younger readers, children can accept anything.
George W. Bush is using language that's a mirror image of the language of Osama bin Laden when he says, "We have God on our side. This is the struggle of good against evil."
My father thought a novel was a broken short story. There's something to that. Many of my favorite novels are novellas. The authors of brief things must reckon with the precision of language.
We boast of our freedom, and we have your example for it. We talk the language we have always heard you speak.
Name, no, nothing is nameable, tell, no, nothing can be told, what then, I don't know, I shouldn't have begun.
Battles are won through the ability of men to express concrete ideas in clear and unmistakable language.
The larger society has to recognize some degree of autonomy for the minority: the right to practice their own religion and way of life and to some extent their language.
Many of the most difficult questions concerning the role of ethnic minorities centers on language.
When you have increased migration of peoples and ethnic and religious minorities, you develop a set of rules and language the larger society can accept and the minority community can accept.
The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself.
Where true Love burns Desire is Love's pure flame; It is the reflex of our earthly frame, That takes its meaning from the nobler part, And but translates the language of the heart.
You hear sounds and orchestration, it's ... the fastest way, I think, to your emotions, even if you don't understand the language of the song.
That's why it's important to be multilingual, because it teaches you so much about your own language.
My book would come out in one language, then it would come out in another language, then it would come out in One City, One Read, and I was always being called away from my desk.
I turned to photography because I thought it was the dominant language of our culture.
There was a patient look on the old man's face, as if the world were a great mistake and he had nobody with whom to speak his own language or find companionship.
I feel that as the world becomes more and more multicultural, it's a good tool to be able to speak another language.
What narrative journalism does is create a language or open up a space where someone can say, "Oh, this happened to me, too."
Some people are born with the first word of a language resting on their tongue though it may take some time before they can taste it.
I enjoy receiving and giving realistic fiction, for both children and adults, with strong characters, beautiful language, and humane visions.
In recent poems, I have abandoned the theme of not being able to write for an even more obsessive subject, the nature of language, particularly English, in the formation of my imagination and being.
