Money Language Quotes

#1. I studied French in high school and German in college and I once took a 24-hour Italian crash course. English has by far the most words in it of any other language. Our money might not be worth anything anymore, but the language is.

Roy Blount Jr.

#2. My worst holiday was in Athens when I was a young drama student at Rada in 1965. I ran out of money. I had my things stolen and I wasn't able to speak a word of the language.

Stephanie Beacham

#3. I love variety. I love theater. I also love radio. I love language. But, the older you get, you need to earn money. You need to heighten your profile.

Indira Varma

#4. Cynicism and foul language are the only vices I'm presently capable of. Everything else takes energy or money. (64)

Mary Doria Russell

#5. To bring relevance to people, you have to be able to speak their language effectively

Sunday Adelaja

#6. The two most beautiful words in the English language are 'cheque enclosed.

Dorothy Parker

#7. The sacrifices of time and money that Chinese friends will make for one another often go far beyond what is expected or accepted in Western society.

Larry Herzberg

#8. Money is a topic that touches all races, all religions, all sexes, all ages, all tax brackets. It's a universal language that truly has been held up to us in society as a thing that determines whether we are successful, worthy, whether we have contributed something to life or not.

Suze Orman

#9. Indulge me, John. Cynicism and foul language are the only vices I'm presently capable of. Everything else takes energy or money.

Mary Doria Russell

#10. Power floats like money, like language, like theory.

Jean Baudrillard

#11. The war in the East were hidden behind a thicket of language: patriotism, democracy, loyality, fredom - the words bounced around, changing purpose, as if they were made out of some funny plastic. What did they actually refer to? It seemed that they all might refer to money ...

Deborah Eisenberg

#12. A rumor is usually a lie that the media can legally profit from.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#13. You pay your money, you take your choice. I get the audience my language attracts and I lose the ones it repels.

David Antin

#14. I think it would be cool if you were writing a ransom note on your computer, if the paper clip popped up and said, 'Looks like you're writing a ransom note. Need help? You should use more forceful language, you'll get more money.'

Demetri Martin

#15. Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money.

Ben Jonson

#16. Think, for example, of the words which you perhaps utter in this space of time. They are no longer part of this language. And in different surroundings the institution of money doesn't exist either.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#17. When money gets too far away from actual, physical, real equity and property it gets too abstract and too distantly derived and then suddenly it's not worth anything anymore. And the same is true of language.

Roy Blount Jr.

#18. General amnesty, weekly carnival with masked licence, bonuses for all, esperanto the universal language with universal brotherhood. No more patriotism of barspongers and dropsical impostors. Free money, free rent, free sex and a free lay church in a free lay state.

James Joyce

#19. Language is a virus, money is a nasty disease.

Jonathan Barnbrook

#20. Money is a miraculous thing. It is your personal energy reduced to a portable form and endowed with power you yourself do not possess. It can go where you cannot go; speak languages you cannot speak; lift burdens you cannot touch with your fingers; save lives with which you cannot deal directly.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

#21. I am a serial monogamist of sorts, and have been with my girlfriend for almost four years. In imagining my brain back to worlds where I might be around someone other sexed in that way and not know them that well, speaking out loud almost seems like requiring of demon language, or money spurting.

Blake Butler

#22. All too often, when people don't know where they are, have jet lag, don't speak the language, and can't figure out the money or maintain intestinal regularity, they get hostile.

Mary-Lou Weisman

#23. Men know almost nothing about desire, they think it has to do with sexual activity or can be discharged that way. But sex is a substitute, like money or language. Sometimes I just want to stop seeing.

Anne Carson

#24. Language is metaphor in the sense that it not only stores but translates experience from one mode into another. Money is metaphor in the sense that it stores skill and labour and also translates one skill into another.

Marshall McLuhan

#25. Less is always more. The best language is silence. We live in a time of a terrible inflation of words, and it is worse than the inflation of money.

Eduardo Galeano

#26. The language of labels is like paper money, issued irresponsibly, with nothing of intrinsic value behind it, that is, with no effort of the intelligence to see, to really apprehend.

Paula Fox

#27. The four most expensive words in the English language are, 'This time it's different.'

John Templeton

#28. There's a lot of money with a lot of big law firms that have a tremendous amount at stake by getting the right language to convince the right jury that my client is either innocent or that the opposition is guilty.

Frank Luntz

#29. Money can be more of a barrier between people than language or race or religion.

Vera Caspary

#30. It's amazing. The moment you show cash, everyone knows your language.

Aravind Adiga

#31. I would fain coin wisdom, - mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. Would that I could denounce and banish from the language of men - as base money - the words by which they cheat and are cheated!

Joseph Joubert

#32. Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.

George Santayana

#33. Money has a language of its own.

Robert Kiyosaki

#34. The Canadian community must invest, for the defence and better
appreciation of the French language, as much time, energy, and money as
are required to prevent the country from breaking up

Pierre Trudeau

#35. Money is more open-minded than language, state laws, cultural codes, religious beliefs and social habits.

Yuval Noah Harari

#36. Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Aphra Behn

#37. We say that money talks, but it speaks a broken, poverty-stricken language. Hearts talk better, clearer, and with wider intelligence.

William Allen White

#38. The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.

Al Alvarez