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Language Quotes & Sayings
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Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
— Bela Lugosi
Opinions of language are as interesting as opinions of arithmetic.
— P. J. O'Rourke
A philosophical mythology lies concealed in language, which breaks out again at every moment, no matter how cautious we may be.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Language disguises thought.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
A language you cannot speak yourself is not necessarily a god-awful mess, Celia says, transcribing a line of symbols into her notebook.
— Erin Morgenstern
It is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be in the grasp of superficially educated people.
— Raymond Chandler
The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.
— Benjamin Franklin
Comedy is something that we can all share, no matter what language we speak or our background, it has the power to unite us all.
— Paul Goodman
The language of feelings is not linear, logical, and verbal like the language of thinking.
— Deborah Sandella
Silence is the language of inertia.
— Margaret Heffernan
English is my second language. Laughter is my first.
— Paul Krassner
Palate properly whetted, I spelunked for her clitoris, tasting Bourgogne Rouge and Maya's body.
— Rex Pickett
Over the water of time I call to youIn a language I do not know. — Ellen S. Jaffe
The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
— Eric Hoffer
Language can be used to so many diverse ends. It can be used to clarify and, of course, it can be used to obfuscate, confuse, evade ...
— Errol Morris
i couldn't speak the language of his feelings
— Jonathan Safran Foer
Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.
— Carol Ann Duffy
Culver is a language magnet school. What it's mainly a magnet for, if you want to know the truth, is nerds.
— Dave Barry
Discovering your own love language helps you understand why you feel more loved and appreciated by certain people than you do.
— Gary Chapman
The definition of 'Employment' by an employer, and, that by an employee, are seldom the same.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Painting is literature in colors. Literature is painting in language.
— Pramoedya Ananta Toer
The subtleties of the mind cannot be transmitted in words, but can be seen in words.
— Juefan Huihong
There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.
— John Millington Synge
Unless I speak, you won't see me.
— Marty Rubin
Music is the language of the soul; and for two people of different nations or races to unite, there is no better means than music
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
Job Control Language is the worst programming language ever designed anywhere by anybody for any purpose.
— Fred Brooks
While men's rights are guaranteed by specific language in the Constitution, women's equal rights aren't mentioned.
— Carolyn Maloney
I think there's a part of my brain where food, language, and memory all intersect, and it's really powerful. I think I'm not alone in this.
— Kate Christensen
With languages, you can move from one social situation to another. With languages, you are at home anywhere.
— Edmund De Waal
I was always influenced by language.
— Helen Dunmore
I like to be in a European city where I can speak my language.
— Rashida Jones
I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as ABC, hold up truth to your eyes.
— Thomas Paine
Language has created a barrier that prevents us from seeing existence as it truly is.
— Chris Matakas
The difference of language, dress, and manners ... severs and alienates the nations of the globe.
— Edward Gibbon
The four most important words in the English language are, "What do you think?" Listen to your people and learn.
— J.W. "Bill" Marriott Jr.
I think that there's only one nationality and one language in the sport, and you call it performance.
— Wladimir Klitschko
Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.
— Paul Tillich
It is language which speaks in literature, in all its swarming 'polysemic' plurality, not the author himself.
— Terry Eagleton
As humans we speak one language ...
— Avril Lavigne
We cannot think without language, we cannot process experience without story.
— Christina Baldwin
(Rigg) had often complained that all these languages were useless, and Father had only said, A man who speaks but one language understands none.
— Orson Scott Card
I am a lover of truth, a worshiper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
— Stephen Fry
Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.
— Cyril Connolly
Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
The abuse of terms has at all times been an evil.
— Hannah More
Language is the soul's ozone layer and we thin it at our peril.
— Sven Birkerts
Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks.
— Alfred North Whitehead
If you go to France, you have to speakFrench. If you speak in English, no one looks at you. On the one hand we sayEnglish is a global language.
— Raj Thackeray
Two of the saddest words in the English language are, 'What party?' And L.A. is the 'What party?' capital of the world.
— Carrie Fisher
She talked back, but he didn't understand her raven language of harsh caws and soft croaks.
— Audrey Niffenegger
Because we were not in our country, we could not use our own languages, and so when we spoke our voices came out bruised.
— NoViolet Bulawayo
Body language translation: hell yes, dipshit
— Shay Rucker
Language, if it throws a veil over our ideas, adds a softness and refinement to them, like that which the atmosphere gives to naked objects.
— William Hazlitt
Contentment can only be found in not envying others or comparing yourself to them but in being satisfied with what you have.
— Larry Herzberg
I want to create a kind of new monster language for kids to play with, pick up, and incorporate into their own vocabularies.
— Harry Knowles
I don't believe in that country any longer. I'm not interested. I'm writing in the language, and I like the language.
— Joseph Brodsky
The spiritual activity of millennia is deposited in language.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
I assume the body language no matter what in doing voiceover. There is a transformative aspect.
— Jennifer Hale
If I do not speak in a language that can be understood there is little chance for a dialogue.
— Bell Hooks
To some of us, the wresting of beauty out of language is the only thing in the world that matters.
— Anthony Burgess
A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
— Gertrude Stein
By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.
— Miguel De Cervantes
The dance is the mother of all languages.
— Robin G. Collingwood
True love has her own language.
— Debasish Mridha
Be careful. I wouldn't want anything to happen to the worst Spanish student in the history of the language."I laughed. "No problemo. — Kiersten White
Our language places us in a cultural continuum, linking us to the past, and showing our meanings also to future fellow-speakers.
— Nicholas Ostler
Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.
— Mark Hopkins
Styles come and go. Good design is a language, not a style.
— Massimo Vignelli
