Quotes about language
language
Nothing exists except through language. Hans-Georg Gadamer
language understood
Being that can be understood is language.
language-of-love quiet language
Quiet talk is the language of love. It is the language of peace. It is the language of God. Gordon B. Hinckley
language universal-language universal
Music truly is the universal language. Herbie Hancock
language mint pursuit
How shall we account for our pursuits, if they are original? We get the language with which to describe our various lives out of acommon mint. Henry David Thoreau
language stretching wraps
By stretching language we'll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide. Jean Genet
language bureaucracy diplomacy
French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy. Ernest Hemingway
language popularity contests
All language is a popularity contest. Erin McKean
language purity admirer
No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language. Fisher Ames
language
Any friendship or relationship is about a language. Gina Bellman
language scene generalities
As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene. Jacques Derrida
language speak mathematician
No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.
language speak my-own
I speak only one language, and it is not my own.
language spokes yiddish
To me the Yiddish language and the conduct of those who spoke it are identical. Isaac Bashevis Singer
language compromise wonderful
How wonderful it was to love something without the compromise of language. Jim Harrison
language intoxication
Being a writer requires an intoxication with language.
language living-things
Language is a living thing Gilbert Highet
language poet rhetorical
All language is rhetorical, and even the senses are poets. George Santayana
language humour exquisite
The English take everything with an exquisite sense of humour. They are only offended if you tell them that they have no sense of humour. George Mikes
language hiding hiding-place
Language is a finding-place not a hiding place. Jeanette Winterson
language said trump
I have said that Mr. Trump's language is divisive. Jeb Bush
language slang
correct English is the slang of prigs ... George Eliot
language english-language essayists
Christopher Hitchens is the greatest living essayist in the English language. Christopher Buckley
language understatement
Nothing in a language is less translatable than its modes of understatement. George Steiner
language corruption routes
There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language George Orwell
language foolish easier
The slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.
language humans stills
The human language, as precise as it is with its thousands of words, can still be so wonderfully vague. Garth Stein
language photograph
In the simplest sentence, I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed. Basically, that's why I photograph, in the simplest language. That's the beginning of it and then we get to play the games. Garry Winogrand
language speak easy
Listen to your life. Listen to what happens to you because it is through what happens to you that God speaks...It's in language that's not always easy to decipher, but it's there powerfully, memorably, unforgettably. Frederick Buechner
language portuguese homeland
My homeland is the portuguese language. Fernando Pessoa
language individual organs
A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs. Ferdinand de Saussure
language humans human-wisdom
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language. Ezra Pound
language invention mankind
Language is mankind’s greatest invention – except, of course, that it was never invented. Guy Deutscher