Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ezra Pound

The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.

Erin McKean

All language is a popularity contest.

Fisher Ames

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.

Reading the language in some of the recent filings, it seems very personal.

John Brady

They have their own way of communicating, their own language that I'm not privy to and their own way of doing things.

There's a lot of public pressure to retain the language intact. At the same time, there's pressure from the vice president's office to modify it.

Thomas Bulfinch

The Welsh language is one of the oldest in Europe. It possesses poems the origin of which is referred with probability to the sixth century.

It's meant to be sincere. It's meant to speak to real people in real language and talk about things that matter.

Michael Howard

You can think of it as translating different languages.

There will be more than one language out there. Plus, it's Microsoft. They'll be a player.

There's a big need for speech-language personnel to meet the needs of (students).

There're not too many other ways I know how to say 'no' without slipping into another language,

Your language is really vivid. It was a lot to take in. What would you do to revise it?

Bob Simon

Your language is pretty much that of a martyr.

Errol Morris

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

Truth and falsity is something that concerns language, it's a property of language.

Evan Wolfson

Marriage is a language of love, equality, and inclusion.

Kurt Loder

I know what the structure of the language is.

Harold Bloom

Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage everywhere. Everyone feels that they are represented by him on the stage.

Jean Baudrillard

Power floats like money, like language, like theory.

Kristin Scott Thomas

French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me.

Kristan Higgins

If only…the saddest words in the English language.

(Graduates) will read this and think 'The person is talking my language,'

Gloria Steinem

The old languages - at least the ones I know - don't have gender. They don't have gendered pronouns. There's no "he" and "she." A human being is a human being.

Gioachino Rossini

Music is a kind of harmonious language.

J. L. Austin

A sentence is made up of words, a statement is made in words.... Statements are made, words or sentences are used.

Gunnar Myrdal

Language, as we know, is full of illogicalities.

George Herbert

That is not good language which all understand not.

Jean Dubuffet

Painting is... a richer language than words... Painting operates through signs which are not abstract and incorporeal like words. The signs of painting are much closer to the objects themselves.

Giacomo Leopardi

A dictionary can embrace only a small part of the vast tapestry of a language.

Gertrude Stein

There is no such thing as a natural sentence but there is such a thing as a natural paragraph and it must be found.

I'd feel better if I had time to read the language,

I don't think we can underestimate the power of language.