Top 100 Language Is Quotes
#1. Which I wish to remark
And my language is plain,
That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar.
Bret Harte
#2. Working with language is a means by which we can identify the bullshit within ourselves (and others).
George Saunders
#3. I think with all my books, language has been their subject as much as anything else. Language can elide or displace or sideline whole groups of people. You can't necessarily change the way language is used, but if it becomes something you're conscious of ... that gives you a certain power over it.
Kate Grenville
#4. Language is the key to the heart of people.
Ahmed Deedat
#5. To learn a new language is, therefore, always a sort of spiritual adventure; it is like a journey of discovery in which we find a new world.
Ernst Cassirer
#6. The English language is more complex than calculus because numbers don't have nuances.
Andy Rooney
#7. In a novel, language is your principal tool, you try to build pictures in the mind of the reader. When you write a screenplay, the language is just a transition, the final goal is a picture on the screen, it's the only thing the audience sees.
Philippe Claudel
#9. No language is justly studied merely as an aid to other purposes. It will in fact better serve other purposes, philological or historical, when it is studied for love, for itself.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#10. G-rated language is making me a less angry person. Behavior shapes emotion.
A. J. Jacobs
#11. To speak of atrocious crimes in mild language is treason to virtue.
Edmund Burke
#12. You'll never make your mark as a writer unless you develop a respect for words and a curiosity about their shades of meaning that is almost obsessive. The English language is rich in strong and supple words. Take the time to root around and find the ones you want
William Zinsser
#13. Language is power that gets abused all the time, Robin, but we've got real enemies out there somewhere and until they're out of the picture, I won't get knotted up over people who don't get all the words right. It's a waste of energy.
Tim Eldred
#14. Language is almost the most unique creation of humankind which defines itself; the alternative way of communication/comprehension/conception, yet overusing any invention, can cause Alienation.
Fereidoon Yazdi
#15. Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
J.M.G. Le Clezio
#16. Language is such an imprecise vehicle I sometimes wonder why we bother with it.
Karen Joy Fowler
#17. Language is rich, and malleable. It is a living, vibrant material, and every part of a poem works in conjunction with every other part - the content, the place, the diction, the rhythm, the tone-as well as the very sliding, floating, thumping, rapping sounds of it.
Mary Oliver
#18. God speaks all languages - including yours. What language is God speaking to you?
Max Lucado
#19. God is an energy, rather than an anthropomorphic being, and God's language is biology. Red blood cells, the principle of magnetic attraction, neurological synapse: each is a miracle, and in each is the presence and flow of God.
Guillermo Del Toro
#20. Language is not the barrier, the heart is".
~R. Alan Woods [2012]
R. Alan Woods
#21. My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you've got to duck for your life and aim to kill! Words aren't only bombs and bullets - no, they're little gifts, containing meanings!
Philip Roth
#22. When language is used without true significance, it loses its purpose as a means of communication and becomes an end in itself.
Karl Jaspers
#23. I did three DVD's for 'Baby Einstein,' teaching babies how to sign. It really helps a parent communicate because babies can't talk. But it has been proven that they can communicate using their hands to communicate. So sign language is a great tool in that way.
Marlee Matlin
#24. Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#25. Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.
Bjarne Stroustrup
#26. Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public.
George W. Crane
#27. Language is the continuation of coercion by other means."
"Bullshit. It's cooperation." Both theories explained what had happened plausibly. I resisted, because it felt trite, saying that they weren't as contradictory as they sounded.
China Mieville
#28. C gives the programmer what the programmer wants; few restrictions, few complaints... C++ maintains the original spirit of C, that the programmer not the language is in charge.
Herbert Schildt
#30. Language is like looking at a map of somewhere. Love is living there and surviving on the land.
Simon Van Booy
#31. A national language is a band of national union.
Noah Webster
#32. Our language is primarily for expressing human goodness and beauty.
Yasunari Kawabata
#33. When your language is nowhere near Turing-complete, syntactic sugar can be your friend.
Eric S. Raymond
#34. Language is the writer's only tool - we really don't have anything else - but our language contains within it our entire experience of the world.
Alice McDermott
#35. A common language is the most obvious binding element in any society.
Michael Howard
#36. The necessity of poetry has to be stated over and over, but only to those who have reason to fear its power, or those who still believe that language is 'only words' and that an old language is good enough for our descriptions of the world we are trying to transform.
Adrienne Rich
#37. The traditional statement about language is that it is in itself living, and that writing is the dead part of language.
Jacques Derrida
#38. The English language is a work in progress. Have fun with it.
Jonathan Culver
#39. Strauss again brought up my need to speak and wrtie simply and directly so that people will understand me. He reminds me that language is sometimes a barrier instead of a pathway. Ironic to find myself on the other side of the intellectual fence.
Daniel Keyes
#41. If the silence of nature is the possibility of language, language is the possibility of history.
James P. Carse
#42. The individual that believes God permits a man to hit a woman or speak to her using abusive language, is void of understanding who God is. He condemns violence in any form.
Ellen J. Barrier
#43. Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
Karl Kraus
#44. Language is not, as we are led to suppose by the dictionary, the invention of academicians or philologists. Rather, it has been evolved through time ... by peasants, by fishermen, by hunters, by riders.
Jorge Luis Borges
#45. The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib.
Robert Burchfield
#46. Poetic language is singularly appropriate for recounting the life of the king who is traditionally accepted as the author of the poetic psalms, some of which are included in the narrative.
Robert Pinsky
#47. Sheriff Gibbs, the vocabulary of the English language is the wonder of the whole world. Chaucer spoke it and Shakespeare and Winston Churchill. With such a precedent, you could possibly make better use of it," said Mrs. Perley.
"Huh," said Sheriff Gibbs
Gary D. Schmidt
#48. I would guess that the decision to create a small special purpose language or use an existing general purpose language is one of the toughest decisions that anyone facing the need for a new language must make.
Guido Van Rossum
#49. Words are the wellspring of the world, and language is the most powerful weapon in the ancient and still unfolding war between truth and lies.
Dean Koontz
#50. We're living in a time when the sheer amount of language has exponentially increased. As writers, if we wish to be contemporary, I think we need to acknowledge that the very nature of the materials that we're working with - the landscape of language - is very different than it was a few decades ago.
Kenneth Goldsmith
#51. As Eskimo language is to snow, so archaic English is to 'metal objects designed to cause harm'.
Austin Grossman
#53. Whatever is language is poetic language and if the word required by the poet does not exist in his known language then it is up to him to discover it.
Lenore Kandel
#54. The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.
Paul De Man
#55. Language is the soul's ozone layer and we thin it at our peril.
Sven Birkerts
#56. Want to know where the action in a culture is? Watch where new language is turning up and where the lawyers collect, usually in that sequence.
Stewart Brand
#57. Then they ask, "Do you want Jesus to come into your heart?" Does it bother anyone that this formula or language is not found in the New Testament?
Paul Washer
#58. There are times when the power of language is not the power that is needed.
Leon Wieseltier
#59. A common language is a first step towards communication across cultural boundaries.
Ethan Zuckerman
#60. We are at a time in our country's history that inclusive language is better than exclusive language.
Barack Obama
#61. Language is so inherent to humanity, so necessary for even basic thinking, that stories and poetry are available to anyone who can process language.
Aleksandar Hemon
#62. We are not the ones in charge of language; language is in charge of us.
Thomas A. Schwandt
#63. Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism.
Robin Morgan
#64. Working with the Latin language is pretty powerful. Working with a language that is not spoken vernacularly is intense.
Eyvind Kang
#65. Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.
James C. Maxwell
#66. The most difficult step in the study of language is the first step.
Leonard Bloomfield
#67. Language is handy, but we humans have social and emotional connections that transcend words and are communicated - and understood - without conscious thought.
Leonard Mlodinow
#68. Words alike make the destiny of empires and of individuals. Ambition, love, hate, interest, vanity, have words for their engines, and need none more powerful. Language is a fifth element - the one by which all the others are swayed.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
#69. Language is not only a means of speech and thought, it is a bridge with the significant function of bringing the wealth of the past to our day and conveying today's heritage and our new compositions to the future.
M. Fethullah Gulen
#70. Abstraction is itself an abstract word and has no single meaning ... Every word in our language is abstract, because it represents something else.
Eric Maisel
#71. Having a facility for language is an important part of being an author.
Elizabeth George
#72. Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence.
George Steiner
#73. Nobody knows everything-one of the pleasures of language is that there is always something new to learn-and everybody makes mistakes.
Mary Norris
#74. So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to make films without words.
Godfrey Reggio
#75. One of the great skills in using any language is knowing what not to use, what not to say. There's that simplicity thing again.
Ron Jeffries
#76. The German language is so sonorous, isn't it? Beautiful language ... the language of poetry. Angry, angry poetry.
John Oliver
#77. If language is to be of any use to us, then we ought to try and preserve the meaning of words, and 'god' historically has not meant the laws of nature.
Steven Weinberg
#78. Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. This narrative or temporal element has made writing and walking resemble each other.
Rebecca Solnit
#79. The English language is under assault by stupid people who use words they don't understand, and is defended by pompous asses who like to correct those people. We're not sure who to side with.
Tim Cameron
#80. 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.
Peter Brodie
#81. In this primitive and abject state [of hunters and gatherers], which ill deserves the name of society, the human brute, without arts or laws, almost without sense or language, is poorly distinguished from the rest of the animal creation.
Edward Gibbon
#82. Questions that pertain to the foundations of mathematics, although treated by many in recent times, still lack a satisfactory solution. Ambiguity of language is philosophy's main source of problems. That is why it is of the utmost importance to examine attentively the very words we use.
Giuseppe Peano
#83. Language is the most beautiful and destructive thing because it allows you to express yourself, but it totally confuses everything.
Nate Lowman
#84. Better say nothing at all. Language is worth a thousand pounds a word!
Lewis Carroll
#85. Catalan language is one of the most complete and perfect expressions that I know from the point of view regarding language, I not only read it since many years ago, but I understand it. Moreover, I speak it intimately too.
Jose Maria Aznar
#86. Ownership of thought depends on the thinker not subordinating himself to a 'ruling thought'. This is particularly difficult, argues Stirner, ... for language itself is a network of 'fixed ideas'. Truths emerge only when language is reworked and possessed individually.
John Carroll
#88. The world's most famous and popular language is music.
Psy
#89. Unkind language is sure to produce the fruits of unkindness
that is, suffering in the bosom of others.
Jeremy Bentham
#90. Language is one component of the human cognitive capacity which happens to be fairly amenable to enquiry. So we know a good deal about that.
Noam Chomsky
#91. Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.
Anna Jameson
#92. It is, I believe, no exaggeration to say that all the historical information which has been collected from all the books written in the Sanskrit language is less valuable than what may be found in the most paltry abridgement used at preparatory schools in England.
Thomas B. Macaulay
#93. The Scots language is a mark of the distinctive identity of the Scottish people; and as such we should be concerned to preserve it, even if there were no other reason, because it is ours. This statement requires neither explanation nor apology.
J.Derrick McClure
#94. Whether the vessel is a legal document or a rap song, language is often chosen ot exclude. To use a scholarly phrase, "discourse communities" are often gated,so it's the good writer's job to offer readers a set of keys.
Roy Peter Clark
#95. To have a second language is to have a second soul," said Charlemagne around 800 AD. "Each language has its own cognitive toolkit," said psychologist/linguist Lera Boroditsky in 2010 AD.
Stewart Brand
#96. If names are not correct, then language is not in accord with the truth of things. If language is not in accord with the truth of things, then affairs cannot be carried out successfully.
Confucius
#97. The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.
Patrick Kavanagh
#98. The life these words speak of is not worth the ink they are written in ... He now knows that the only words worth writing down arise when language is impossible.
Andrei Makine
#99. My first language is Gaelic.
Enya
#100. If a language is corruptible, then a constitution written in that language is corruptible.
Robert Breault
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