Top 100 Quotes About Language
#1. He thought only of one thing
the geometries before him. Here was God speaking in His simple absolute language, according to the same grammar that He had used to start the planets on their smooth and silken dance.
Mark Helprin
#2. In places in the world where we don't speak the same language, or even understand that we pray to the same God, we dance to the same beat, that is the ONE.
Debbie Allen
#3. Sometimes you search so hard for words. You look for a way to interpret the language of this heart and the unspoken bond you feel. But in the end you are left with nothing but silence. And deep down you hope it's understood.
Yasmin Mogahed
#4. Damn and blast!" "Curates can't use language like that," I reminded my brother, and he grinned involuntarily. "I'm getting it out of my system," was his excuse.
Susanna Kearsley
#5. He is, I think, already pondering a magisterial project: that of buggering the English language, the ultimate revenge of the colonialised.
Angela Carter
#6. For everything outside the phenomenal world, language can only be used allusively, but never even approximately in a comparative way, since, corresponding as it does to the phenomenal world, it is concerned only with property and its relations.
Franz Kafka
#8. You could teach an animal to learn your language, but you'd be missing the point. The point was to learn its language. Only then would you understand.
Ilie Ruby
#9. I briefly stole a look from Vanni, who's dark eyes seem to speak volumes in a language I was not familiar. I did t speak Cheating Dirt Bag, nor did I with to learn.
Ginger Voight
#11. Art is an extension of language - an expression of sensations too subtle for words.
Robert Henri
#12. The complexities of the English language are such that even native speakers cannot always communicate effectively, as almost every American learns on his first day in Britain.
Bill Bryson
#14. My own view is that one cannot be religious in general any more than one can speak language in general; at any given moment one speaks French or English or Swahili or Japanese, but not 'language.
Susan Sontag
#15. His mouth came to hers suddenly, hovering above those thirsting lips as he drilled her with the intensity of his mercury gaze.
"Neliss ... " he murmured, reverting to the elegance of their ancient language. "Neliss ent desita."
Beauty of the ages.
Jacquelyn Frank
#16. Home," he said softly. "If there is a more beautiful word in any language, I do not know it.
Mary Doria Russell
#17. When language fails, violence becomes a language; I never had that feeling.
Elie Wiesel
#18. We understand ... that what constitutes the dignity of a craft is that it creates a fellowship, that it binds men together and fashions for them a common language.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#20. Liberal democracy is a powerful unifying mechanism, blurring differences between people and imposing uniformity of views, behavior, and language.
Ryszard Legutko
#21. A young man who is here speaks the Panis language, and in many other respects, is preferable.
Zebulon Pike
#22. I was always fascinated by diagramming a sentence. Because that is going into a space, going into a world of language.
Vito Acconci
#23. Conventions are often surrounded with the solemn language of morality, but in fact they have little to do with it.
Frans De Waal
#24. Assange is not a 'journalist' any more than the 'editor' of al-Qaeda's new English-language magazine 'Inspire' is a 'journalist.' He is an anti-American operative with blood on his hands.
Sarah Palin
#25. The complexity of the language of images is disguised by the ease and rapidity with which we read them. I've tried to make work that is as transparent and simple as possible. No matter how much I strip away the result is always more complex to me than I expect.
Michael Craig-Martin
#26. Without doubt, the mightiest thought the mind can entertain is the thought of God, and the weightest word in any language is its word for God.
A.W. Tozer
#27. It was not an exclamation so much, I think, as it was a warding off, an exertion of language upon ignorance and disorder.
N. Scott Momaday
#28. Music is another language, one so close to actual thought, strung together, sometimes staccato, flowing, and sometimes even nonsensical or harsh to the ears. It's truth in an otherwise dishonest world.
Moryah DeMott
#29. The Internet," [Judy] Singer said, "is a prosthetic device for people who can't socialize without it." For anyone challenged by language and social rules, a communication system that does not operate in real time is a godsend.
Andrew Solomon
#30. Words of love combined with the language of truth, they are authentic works of highest purity.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
#31. Even if it's just a little thing, something like a song, there's still that sort of common language, that common denominator that we can all relate to.
Jonas Carpignano
#32. The French no longer respect their language, because they no longer love themselves, and, no longer loving themselves, they no longer love what was the instrument of their glory - their language.
Maurice Druon
#33. From antiquity, Latin died but is still studied in seminaries and elite universities. So did Sanskrit in Asia. iI was replaced by Pali, but even Pali died, too. Linguists say the only ancient language which was resuscitated from the grave was Hebrew of Israel.
F. Sionil Jose
#34. Language is our body and our breath, our world and our thought, our perception and even out unconscious.
Philippe Sollers
#35. If apple is the language of the future, then art must be the core.
Elliot W. Eisner
#36. I wish I could go visit them and talk in my own language, the English I knew before I grew thorns on my tongue.
Barbara Kingsolver
#37. If you love language, it will love you back.
John Simon
#38. I love to laugh, it's my main thing. I love to abuse the English language.
Dan Fogelberg
#39. The jargon of authenticity ... is a trademark of societalized chosenness, ... sub-language as superior language.
Theodor Adorno
#40. I've always seen movies in English with Spanish subtitles. For audiences around the world, the language is less important than if it's a good film.
Patricia Riggen
#41. Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes. The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story ... to make him/her forget, whenever possible, that he/she is reading a story at all.
Stephen King
#42. If we are not most careful with our thoughts and speech, the words we use will use us. Language has its own ethics, and one who communicates truth is like a bright light in the darkness.
Ted E. Brewerton
#43. After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country.
Hu Shih
#44. Connubial
Because with alarming accuracy
she'd been identifying patterns
I was unaware of - this tic, that
tendency, like the way I've mastered
the language of intimacy
in order to conceal how I felt
I knew I was in danger
of being terribly understood.
Stephen Dunn
#45. You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn't have connectives like 'and' that allow you to make longer expressions. An infant learning truncated English would have no idea about this: They would just pick it up as they would standard English.
Noam Chomsky
#46. semiotics tells us things we already know in a language we will never understand' (Paddy Whannel, cited in Seiter 1992, 31).
Anonymous
#47. Art is no longer anything more than a kind of meta-language for banality.
Jean Baudrillard
#48. [Sexism is] behavior, policy, language, or other action of men or women which expresses the institutionalized, systematic, comprehensive, or consistent view that women are inferior.
Cheris Kramarae
#50. What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it - the process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialized language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve; empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
Abraham Verghese
#52. Civilization could not exist until there was written language, because without written language no generation could bequeath to succeeding generations anything but its simpler findings.
Charlton Laird
#53. There was no word for self-pity in the language of the north-east of Scotland - the nearest being a word which is defined in the Scots dictionary as being 'a term used to express self-reproach on paying too much for something.
Alexander McCall Smith
#54. MY FRIEND: SO DO YOU TAKE A FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASS?
ME: SURE DO HAVE BEEN FOR THE LAST 13 YEARS.
MY FRIEND: COOL WHAT LANGUAGE?
ME: MATH.
KanyaACoffman
#55. There are only about 30,000 really important books in the world. I suppose about 5,000 of them were written in the English language, and 5,000 more have been translated. - Roger Mifflin
Christopher Morley
#56. All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.
Antonin Artaud
#57. The English alphabet is pure insanity ... , It can hardly spell any word in the language with any degree of certainty.
Mark Twain
#58. Colors do not exist separately and independently within nature; they are constantly shifting in response to subtle gradations of light. It is language that, magnificently, gives them clear shape.
Kenya Hara
#59. The devastating repercussions of hate-filled language manifest in very real ways for today's LGBTQ youth.
Cheyenne Jackson
#60. I was looking for a name with an old English sound, very easy to pronounce in every language and easy to remember. At the beginning I used J. P. Tod's, but then in 1999 it was shortened since too many people were asking who was Mr. J. P. Tod's.
Diego Della Valle
#61. The ten most powerful two-letter words in the English language are: If it is to be, it is up to me.
Harvey MacKay
#62. That outering or uttering of sense which is language and speech is a tool which made it possible for man to accumulate experience and knowledge in a form that made easy transmission and maximum use possible.
Marshall McLuhan
#63. What the elements are to chemistry, what the sounds are to music, are words to language.
Ernest Klein
#64. Estelle Getty used the language of a truck driver, or a sailor. Bea Arthur didn't wear shoes. Bea Arthur was a comic genius. Her timing was extraordinary.
Leland Orser
#65. Those are the facts but not the truth, which does not even speak the same language.
Sonja Livingston
#66. [N]o language has ever had a word for a virgin man.
Will Durant
#67. The language with which I make my poems has nothing to do with one spoken here, or anywhere.
Paul Celan
#68. Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
Carl Sandburg
#69. You sick piece of shit," Adam says to him, his voice low, measured.
"Such unfortunate language." Warner shakes his head. "Only those who cannot express themselves intelligently would resort to such crude substitutions in vocabulary.
Tahereh Mafi
#70. The language itself is what gets me interested in writing. It's weird to me that words exist. Never a dull moment with words. They're a layer between our minds and the physical reality around us, obviously, but the layer seems like it's always in flux, like an asteroid belt, constantly moving.
Aaron Belz
#71. Particularly for English people, Shakespeare is always at the forefront of both drama and the English language. He's always been there. I can't remember starting school and not learning about him.
Jamie Campbell Bower
#72. I was born in Brooklyn and raised in Pittsburgh. I've never been to Iran, I don't speak the language, and, probably most important of all, my Iranian father left home when I was nine months old. That's the extent of my connection to Iran.
Said Sayrafiezadeh
#73. I am not sure what it is that finally allows people to just turn to each other and touch. There is some hidden trigger. There is a secret language people learn, so they can signal to stop talking and just move. I don't know it.
M T Anderson
#74. I was speaking well because I was talking to her; there are people who dry up language.
Maxine Hong Kingston
#75. The thing about language is that once you start getting analytical about it, you can't stop.
Greg Carlson
#76. The soul inside me is the last foreign language I'm learning,
Yehuda Amichai
#77. Simply because you're a Democrat doesn't mean you can't speak to these issues in language that appeals to voters, particularly independent voters.
Dannel Malloy
#78. My impression is that a sense of rhythm, which has no analog in language, is unique and that its correlation with movement is unique to human beings. Why else would children start to dance when they're two or three? Chimpanzees don't dance.
Oliver Sacks
#79. I think that language matters. I think that people who are in public life have an opportunity to help the public understand issues and understand the urgency of issues. And to that extent, I think it is important how issues are talked about.
Maya Harris
#80. Peru is a country where more than half the people would emigrate if given the chance. That's half the population that is willing to abandon everything they know for the uncertainty of a life in a foreign land, in another language.
Daniel Alarcon
#81. In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously.
David Mamet
#82. I just sometimes get the sneaking suspicion that corporations are co-opting "girl confidence" language to rally girls into buying body wash. Be careful.
Mindy Kaling
#83. I wondered if all of us churchgoers were just exhausted by grief. For the dying priest and us, I thought, "God" always refused to become glorious, instead stubbornly remaining plain, a headache, a sorrowful knot of language.
Virginia Heffernan
#84. Even trained for years as they all had been in precision of language, what words could you use which would give another the experience of sunshine?
Lois Lowry
#85. We assume, to begin with, that the individual is at least as complex in his internal structure as the language is which he speaks - otherwise, how could he speak a language which is complex?
Kenneth L. Pike
#86. Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis good works make the man.
Eliza Cook
#87. The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language.
Henri Delacroix
#88. Language is the net that holds thought trapped within a particular culture. But if one could only strike the ball with sufficient force, with perfect timing, it would perhaps break through the netting, continue on its course, never fall to earth, but go into orbit around the world.
David Lodge
#89. When a society decays, it is language that is first to become gangrenous. As a result, social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings
Octavio Paz
#90. I've been thinking about going back to university. I need more tools to continue to apply to the music. I've got to open myself up to more language.
Ana Tijoux
#91. Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.
Rumi
#92. No damsel was ever in more distress, no dray horse more flogged, no defenseless child more drunkenly abused than the English language today. And
Robert Hartwell Fiske
#93. For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance.
Joseph Brodsky
#94. Fools laugh at the Latin language. -Rident stolidi verba Latina
Ovid
#95. He mentioned Beethoven. She had read in the library about that musician - his name was pronounced with an a and spelled with a double e. He was a German fellow like Mozart. When he was living he spoke in a foreign language and lived in a foreign place - like she wanted to do.
Carson McCullers
#96. I paint with a language I can call my own ... it takes a ruthless honesty with oneself. If one admires or is influenced by anyone else, one is not being true to oneself.
Scott Kahn
#97. The world of fiction is a sovereign world that comes to life in the author's head and follows the rules of art, of literature. And that is the major difference that is reflected in the form of the work, in its language and its plot. An author invents every aspect of a fiction, every detail.
Imre Kertesz
#98. We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language.
Benjamin Whorf
#99. This passage, in fact, makes strikingly clear that both at the level of ontogenesis (the development of the child) and phylogenesis (the development of the human species) mimesis, for Nietzsche, precedes language and allows communication to take place.
Nidesh Lawtoo
#100. Closure is a neurotic and infantile demand to make upon reality, other people, or language.
Terence McKenna
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