Secret Language Quotes

#1. instead a different sort of joy, a little girl tucked up between him and his wife, babbling away. She'll be just learning to talk now, all "Dada" and "Mama" and a secret language incomprehensible to anyone but a parent.

Paula Hawkins

#2. Words don't tell you what people are thinking. Rarely do we use words to really tell. We use words to sell people or to convince people or to make them admire us. It's all disguise. It's all hidden
a secret language.

Robert Altman

#3. 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

#4. The journey of learning the secret language of dreams is fascinating and well worth the effort.

Pamela Cummins

#5. The crimes of others are a secret language among us. Through them we show ourselves what we might be capable of, after all.

Margaret Atwood

#6. A lot of politics plays at the level of myth, and if you understand that, then you feel like you have access to the secret language of politics.

Zephyr Teachout

#7. My advice to those who which to learn the art of scientific prophesy is not to rely on abstract reason, but to decipher the secret language of Nature from Nature's documents: the facts of experience.

Max Born

#8. so the knowledge of their presence remained, for the time being, strictly within the bounds of people's private thoughts, lying dormant in a corner of their minds like a secret language spoken only at home.

Orhan Pamuk

#9. Love is the secret language of the heart which everyone can understand.

Debasish Mridha

#10. I think that's what Toni Morrison and Alice Walker understand, the secret language of women. That it's not a secret at all; men just don't know how to listen.

Marlon James

#11. If I had my way books would not be written in English but in an exceedingly difficult secret language ... This plan would have the advantage of scaring off all amateur authors, retired politicians, country doctors ... who would not have the patience to learn the secret language.

Robertson Davies

#12. There are angels in nature walking amongst the trees and whispering the secret language of sacred things.

Jodi Sky Rogers

#13. Many poets in Iran have learned to speak almost a secret language, where political issues are talked about in allegorical ways.

Reza Aslan

#14. The huge difference in my lifetime is that you can just go up to somebody and make a pass. You couldn't do that in the 1950s if you were gay. There were secret handshakes, a secret language. There was nowhere you could go to be romantic outside of people's houses.

Ian McKellen

#15. There is no secret language, Future Sam, that you have to speak in order to talk to someone you like. You just talk to them. Bonus

Lara Avery

#16. Music really did mean something to him, he realized, and it always had. It called to him, although there were no words to describe what it promised. It was like a secret language he never forgot how to speak, a hometown he could always return to when he tired of what life was throwing at him.

Tad Williams

#17. Visual journals are created in a secret language of symbols. Intentional or not, they are private maps only their makers can follow.

Jennifer New

#18. An orange day, a happy day, a brand-new day in the secret language that only the three of us seemed to understand.
"Mmmmm," Daddy said, taking a bite of his roll. "Orange wakes you up, but cinnamon makes you remember.

Judith Fertig

#19. I wanted to write in Kitchenese, the secret language of cooks, instantly recognizable to anyone who has ever dunked french fries for a summer job or suffered under the despotic rule of a tyrannical chef or boobish owner.

Anthony Bourdain

#20. I love the Bronte sisters, but I feel a closer kinship to the Ephron sisters, Nora and Delia, if only because their work makes me laugh more than the Brontes. I also love the Mitford sisters with their secret language and their endless letters back and forth.

Kate Klise

#21. His indiscriminate love feels entirely serious to her, as if everything in the world is part of a vast, inscrutable intention and everything in the world has its own secret name, a name that cannot be conveyed in language but is simply the sight and feel of the thing itself.

Michael Cunningham

#22. The pretence that numbers are not the humble creation of man, but are the exacting language of the Universe and therefore possess the secret of all things, is comforting, terrifying and mesmeric.

Peter Greenaway

#23. It is a tragicomic fact that our proper upbringing has become an ally of the secret police. ( ... ) The "Tell the truth!" imperative drummed into us so automatically that we feel ashamed of lying even to a secret policeman.

Milan Kundera

#24. Nu shu means women's writing. And it was a secret writing system that was invented by women, used by women and kept a secret by women in one very remote county in China for a thousand years. It's the only language that was invented and used by women to have been found anywhere in the world.

Lisa See

#25. If only I could visit you as a foreigner goes into a new country, learn the language of you, wander past all borders into every private and secret place, I would stay forever. I would become a citizen of you.

Lisa Kleypas

#26. I slept all day, face down in the pillow, a comfortable dead-man's float only remotely disturbed by a chill undertow of reality - talk, footsteps, slamming doors - which threaded fitfully through the dark, blood-warm waters of dream.

Donna Tartt

#27. Did you know there are 32 names for love in one of the Eskimo language? And we just have this one. We are so limited, you have to use the same word for loving Rosaleen as you do for loving Coke with peanuts. Isn't that a shame we don't have more ways to say it.

Sue Monk Kidd

#28. Denmark is like a secret little place with its own special language.

Helena Christensen

#29. I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha. He and I never discussed his parentage, which was an open secret, but it fascinated me.

Arthur Golden

#30. The secret of mastering creativity in any field is knowing how to work with metaphor without getting caught in language ...

Martha N. Beck

#31. There is a common language, a mode of consciousness, almost a secret sign which can be read and recognized by all who are similarly engaged. Such realizations help fend off the feeling of isolation which can dog the steps of those who seek the Grail.

John Matthews

#32. What if it were true that nature speaks in signs and that the secret to understanding its language consists in noticing similarities in shape or in form?

Jeremy Narby

#33. It is as if the ordinary language we use every day has a hidden set of signals, a kind of secret code.

William Stafford

#34. The secret of language is the secret of sympathy, and its full charm is possible only to the gentle

John Ruskin

#35. When we humans learn how to analyze the messages of the nighttime we open ourselves up to manifest our greatest selves.

Pamela Cummins

#36. I would like to write you so simply, so simply, so simply. Without having anything ever catch the eye, excepting yours alone, ... so that above all the language remains self-evidently secret, as if it were being invented at every step, and as if it were burning immediately

Jacques Derrida

#37. Words have no language which can utter the secrets of love; and beyond the limits of expression is the expounding of desire.

Hafez

#38. In the interstices of language lie powerful secrets of the
culture.

Adrienne Rich

#39. When we know beyond any doubt that we already speak the feeling language of prayer, we awaken that part of us that can never be stolen, lost, or taken away. This is the secret mode of prayer.

Gregg Braden

#40. I'm talking about the language of flowers. It's from the Victorian era, like your name. If a man gave a young lady a bouquet of flowers, she would race home and try to decode it like a secret message. Red roses mean love; yellow roses infidelity. So a man would have to choose his flowers carefully.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#41. Elimae was a magician with a key in her mouth, a foreign language, a matryoshka doll: uncomplicated on the surface, but with a dozen secret selves hidden inside. She thought I didn't notice her, but she's all I did notice.

Kirsty Logan

#42. I've always loved the language of flowers. I discovered Kate Greenaway's 'Language of Flowers' in a used bookstore when I was 16 and couldn't believe it was such a well-kept secret. How could something so beautiful and romantic be virtually unknown?

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#43. When you live in a country where your own language is considered foreign, you can feel a continuous sense of estrangement. You speak a secret, unknown language, lacking any correspondence to the environment. An absence that creates a distance within you.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#44. Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.

Kahlil Gibran

#45. Destruction is creation. Become as a little child. Language as space, a kind of mathematical notation, geometric locations in the lab of memory. Reading. Maps. Codes, substitutions, the secret names of things. The glorious inrush of a word. The joy of chatter. Every color's wavelength, by number.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#46. All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by God to manifest himself. But this relationship is secret and incomprehensible, beyond the bounds of reason and analysis.

Jacques Ellul

#47. I will treat language with resigned delight, embrace it like unrequited love, offer words to you with a kind of secret shame, for I know that sometimes there is such a thing as too much language, and that language can hold a kind of sincerity that is tiresome and overwrought.

Meia Geddes

#48. Here in Raine, I can walk with the sunlight on my face. I can speak to anyone who speaks to me. I can learn my daughter's language. I can be called the name I was given when I was born.
Here I am no longer my own secret.
Will you let me stay?

Patricia A. McKillip

#49. Languages for me have a secret venom that every so often foams up and for which there is no antidote.

Elena Ferrante

#50. It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them.

Edward Sapir

#51. Neither the secret whirring song of the stars nor the sonorous canticles of the earth knew the language that sprang up in the space between us. It was a dialect of heartbeats, strung together with the lilt of long suffering and the incandescent hope of an infinite future.

Roshani Chokshi

#52. A poem makes clear without making simple. Poetry's language carries what lives outside language. It's as if you were given a 5-gallon bucket with 10 gallons of water in it. Mysterious thirsts are answered. That alchemical bucket carries secrets also, even the ones we keep from ourselves.

Jane Hirshfield

#53. For I had reached a point in my life when I came to view words differently. A closer look at language could reveal the secret of life.

Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

#54. Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind.
Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bark sings songs of olden days as it grows around the trunks. And their roots give names to all things.
Their language has been lost.
But not the gestures.

Vera Nazarian

#55. Prayer simply means a longing of the heart, it is the wish felt, - it may be expressed, or not expressed. It may take the form of human language or it may never be uttered at all; still it is a prayer, if God only hears it in the secret recess of the heart.

Keshub Chandra Sen

#56. Speaking in tongues is as normal to me as 'Pass the salt' It's a secret, direct prayer language to God.

Katy Perry

#57. The Secret To The Universe Is Hidden Within Our Language. To Discover It Might Be To Destroy It - So It Should Forever Remain A Mystery, Or Forever May Fail To Be - EXCEPT When The Secret Is Revealed By THE CREATOR.

Melchizedek