Famous Quotes & Sayings

Salman Rushdie

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

Kenneth Burke

Words are like planets, each with its own gravitational pull.

Terry Tempest Williams

Word by word, the language of women so often begins with a whisper.

Terry Pratchett

My programming language was solder.

Terence McKenna

We cannot evolve faster than our language. The edge of being is the edge of meaning, and somehow we have to push the edge of meaning. We have to extend it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every word was once a poem. Every new relation is a new word.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Music is a universal language.

L. Ron Hubbard

Music is indeed the Universal Language.

Lewis Thomas

We are spectacular splendid manifestations of life. We have language. We have affection. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Invent a new language anyone can understand.

Samuel Johnson

An Englishman is content to say nothing when he has nothing to say.

Samuel Johnson

Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written, we learn the language.

Ruth Ozeki

language is magical - it's a form of conjuring. If you do it convincingly, readers will follow you.

Roman Jakobson

A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms.

Roland Barthes

Tout refus du langage est une mort. Any refusal of language is a death.

Sid Caesar

Every language has its own music.

Swizz Beatz

Music is the universal language.

Thomas Carlyle

What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words.... Be not the slave of Words...

Silvio Berlusconi

We must be capable of speaking a language of peace, but not one of surrender.

Robert A. Heinlein

Its very variety, subtlety, and utterly irrational, idiomatic complexity makes it possible to say things in English which simply cannot be said in any other language.

Steven Wright

Sometimes I talk to myself in languages I'm unfamiliar with... just to screw with my subconscious.

Raymond Arroyo

No' is the second shortest word in the English language, but one of the hardest to say.

Vernor Vinge

Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.

Rumi

Speak with the language of love.

Tony Hoare

Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly all its successors.

Steve Almond

All language is an aspiration to music.

V. S. Pritchett

I am under the spell of language, which has ruled me since I was 10.

Steven Morrissey

Nature is a language - can't you read?

Sun Ra

Music is a language, a universal language.

Richard Mitchell

If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave.

Vikram Seth

So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.

Robert Green Ingersoll

To me, the most obscene word in our language is celibacy.