Language Quotes

Language changes and moves in a different direction evolving all the time. Where a lot of people see deterioration, I see expressive development

Life is too short to learn German

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.

Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics.

Coding is today's language of creativity. All our children deserve a chance to become creators instead consumers of computer science.

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

...language is never innocent.

Never mistake legibility for communication.

This is how it always is when I finish a poem. A great silence overcomes me and I wonder why I ever thought to use language.

I no longer have a borrowed soul. I no longer have borrowed thoughts or ideas. I no longer speak in a borrowed language.

The four most important words in the English language are, "What do you think?" Listen to your people and learn.

Felicity, not fluency of language, is a merit.

Astrology is a language. If you understand this language, the sky speaks to you.

Do you know what a foreign accent is? It's a sign of bravery.

My advice to all who have the time or inclination to concern themselves with the international language movement would be: 'Back Esperanto loyally.'

No means yes in grasshopper language.

Englishmen must learn to be Brahmins, not banias.

When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.

The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve.

A new language requires a new technique. If what you're saying doesn't require a new language, then what you're saying probably isn't new.

If you're going to learn a new language, you can't try to be perfect. You'll stop yourself from talking. You just have to let go.

Photography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world.

Feeling is the language that speaks to the Divine Matrix (the Universe). Feel as though your goal is accomplished and your prayer is already answered.

I'm a firm believer that language and how we use language determines how we act, and how we act then determines our lives and other people's lives.

That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted.

The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost and what is gained in the linguistic transition.

God gave humans language so they could conceal their thoughts from one another.

Know what you are talking about.

Everyone smiles in the same language.

The Hebrew language will go from the synagogue to the house of study, and from the house of study to the school, and from the school it will come into the home and... become a living language

The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.

If I have to do something, I feel I should do it perfectly, and ofcourse, Hindi language is a problem.

It is through our hands that we speak to the child. That we communicate. Touch is the child's first language, understanding comes long after feeling

Hula is the language of the heart, therefore, the heartbeat of the Hawai'ian people.

Most of conflicts and tensions are due to language. Don't pay so much attention to the words. In love’s country, language doesn't have its place. Love's mute.

Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another.

Language has no independent existence apart from the people who use it. It is not an end in itself; it is a means to an end of understanding who you are and what society is like.

I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.

I believe the United States should allow all foreigners in this country, provided they can speak our native language... Apache.

A riot is the language of the unheard.

Thanks to the redundancy of language, yxx cxn xndxrstxnd whxt x xm wrxtxng xvxn xf x rxplxcx xll thx vxwxls wxth xn "x" (t gts lttl hrdr f y dn't vn kn whr th vwls r)

It's as if we're higher apes who had a language faculty inserted.

In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.

I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language.

The language of music is common to all generations and nations; it is understood by everybody, since it is understood with the heart.

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.

I speak the truth but I guess that's a foreign language to ya'll!

You can say 'stop' or 'alto' or use any other word you think will work but I've found that a large bore muzzle pointed at someone's head is pretty much the universal language.