Language Quotes

Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.

Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary tries in vain to lock inside every free word.

A shoe is not only a design, but it's a part of your body language, the way you walk. The way you're going to move is quite dictated by your shoes.

We are Americans, speaking the same language, adopting the same customs, holding the same general opinions... and shall rise and fall with Americans.

Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

Art is communication spoken by man for humanity in a language raised above the everyday happening.

Grammar is what gives sense to language .... sentences make words yield up their meaning. Sentences actively create sense in language. And the business of the study of sentences is grammar.

No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love.

Language is an anonymous, collective and unconscious art; the result of the creativity of thousands of generations.

Coding is the language of the future, and every girl should learn it. As I've learned from watching girls grow and learn in our classrooms, coding is fun, collaborative and creative.

We always translate the other person's language into our own language.

Armenian is the language to speak with God.

If I had to create a god, I would lend him a “slow understanding”: a kind of drip-by-drip understanding of problems. People who understand quickly frighten me.

It's rare that I ever meet a musician who doesn't agree that music is a language. But it's very rare to meet a musician that really treats it like one.

Grasp the subject, the words will follow.

Language is a very difficult thing to put into words.

Sign language is the noblest gift God has given to deaf people.

Females carry the marks, language and nuances of their culture more than the male. Anything that is desired or despised is always placed on the female body.

The true Way is sublime. It can't be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can't read a word.

Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.

Comics are an international language, they can cross boundaries and generations. Comics are a bridge between all cultures.

Most of us grew up speaking a language that encourages us to label, compare, demand, and pronounce judgments rather than to be aware of what we are feeling and needing.

Real change comes when people are enabled to use their thinking and their energy in a new way, using a different system of thought, different language, and having fresh visions of the future.

Language is not neutral. It is not merely a vehicle which carries ideas. It is itself a shaper of ideas.

Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.

The language of tones belongs equally to all mankind, and melody is the absolute language in which the musician speaks to every heart.

The dancer of the future will be one whose body & soul have grown so harmoniously together that the natural language of the soul will have become the movement of the body.

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.

Language has not the power to speak what love indites: The soul lies buried in the ink that writes.

When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop.

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help."

The laws of Nature are written in the language of mathematics...the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word.

Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.

Photography is a medium, a language, through which I might come to experience directly, live more closely with, the interaction between myself and nature.

Hebrew is the most wonderful of languages, a language of a thousand antonyms, hard and strong as steel, while soft and gleaming as gold.

The contradiction so puzzling to the ordinary way of thinking comes from the fact that we have to use language to communicate our inner experience, which in its very nature transcends linguistics.

Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught.

Absolutely nothing is so important for a nation's culture as its language.

The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.

Satan mostly employs comparatively moral instruments and the language of ethics to give his aims an air of respectability.

Notes and chords have become my second language and, more often than not, that vocabulary expresses what I feel when language fails me.

Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs, fascinating religions, and more.

Music is its own language - if you don't speak it, it's hard to say what you're trying to do.

You should do whatever language you feel is the perfect language for you to sing in and then try to strive to do the best.

We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.

I think it's important to be sincere. And I could be the most sincere just staying in [my] mother language actually. And that's the reason why I stay composing and writing in French.

There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.

Language is generated by the intellect and generates the intellect.