Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Chase

The language is deliberately fuzzy. They want to try to take away any legal recognition for same-sex unions.

Hunter Mahan

I just wasn't getting any better, ... We just didn't communicate very well. It was a new language for me, and I was losing touch with my swing.

Douglas William Jerrold

The language of women should be luminous, but not voluminous.

Donald Miller

I had always suspected language was quite limited in its ability to communicate the intricate mysteries of truth.

Graham Norton

In terms of language, yeah we get bleeped and blurred and things, but in terms of content, I would probably say we're getting away with more here than we could get away with in Britain. And that surprised us so much!

Javier Solana

If the only language Mr. Milosevic understands is force, then he will get force,

Shane Williams

I didn't understand the language and didn't know what was going on at all.

Gwendolyn Brooks

Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.

How do you get around the language you are telling me to ignore?

Confucius

If names are not correct, language will not be in accordance with the truth of things

Alison Moyet

I love singing in French. I don't think in French. Sometimes when you sing in another language because you can think about the sound you make.

Robin Li

Being able to speak the language of Silicon Valley to venture capitalists is very important.

Ali Larijani

But they are not going to talk to us in the language of threats.

Mosab Hassan Yousef

Out of 1.6 billion Muslims, perhaps only 300 million actually understand the language of the Koran.

Slavoj Zizek

We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.

Melanie Fiona

I always feel like music should be a universal language.

Theodor Adorno

Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.

Eric Bolling

[Donald Trump] said that he has intelligence briefings. He's heard stuff that body language. It's very wild to me.

Jake Gyllenhaal

I've become obsessed with learning other languages in movies, because I was like, since I was like, but I learned how to box so why don't I just learn another language for a movie?

Jacques Lacan

The unconscious is structured like a language.

Henry Rollins

A text conversation is a short exchange of often grossly truncated language that corresponds to a thought made all the more shallow by the process.

Plato

A written discourse on any subject is bound to contain much that is fanciful.

Paulo Freire

language is never neutral

James Fenton

English poetry begins whenever we decide to say the modern English language begins, and it extends as far as we decide to say that the English language extends.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

We must plow through the whole of language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

To imagine a language is to imagine a form of life.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

An entire mythology is stored within our language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Language disguises thought.

Nas

I used to keep a dictionary and work with it and then I realized there are more words that exist in the English language than there are in this dictionary.

John Woolman

Conduct is more convincing than language.

John Keats

And sure in language strange she said, / I love thee true.

Rabih Alameddine

All living languages are promiscuous. We promiscuous speakers shamelessly shoplift words, plucking bons mots and phrases from any tempting language. We wear these words when we wish to be more formal, more elegant, more mysterious, worldly, precise, vague.