Quotes about language
language mythology
An entire mythology is stored within our language. Ludwig Wittgenstein
language captives repeats
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.
language disguise
Language disguises thought.
language used i-realized
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. Nas
language convincing
Conduct is more convincing than language. John Woolman
language love strange sure thee
And sure in language strange she said, / I love thee true. John Keats
languages speakers tempting wear wish
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. Rabih Alameddine
language-of-love world easy
When you know the language of love,it's easy to understand that someone in the world awaits you. Paulo Coelho
language speak
The Germans and I no longer speak the same language. Marlene Dietrich
language
I'm pretty good with languages. Marisol Nichols
language international-language international
Image is an international language. Marjane Satrapi
language embarrassed our-family
When you're around your family, and you have that history and that shared language, you say things you'd be embarrassed to hear quoted back to you later. Noah Baumbach
language enough
The bare fact that language consists of sounds which are mutually intelligible is enough of itself to show that its meaning depends upon connection with a shared experience. John Dewey
language mankind humans
If our language is watered down, then mankind becomes less human, and less free... Madeleine L'Engle
language speak bergman
Ingrid Bergman speaks five languages and can’t act in any of them. John Gielgud
language ifs
If French is no longer the language of a power, it can be the language of a counter power. Lionel Jospin
language states righteous
I find righteous denunciations of the present state of the language no less dismaying than the present state of the language. Lionel Trilling
language speak foreign-language
I speak the truth but I guess that's a foreign language to ya'll! Lil Wayne
language photograph ifs
If you can take photographs with language, I'm taking one right now. Lewis Hine
language-and-power language needed
There are times when the power of language is not the power that is needed. Leon Wieseltier
language well-said wit
A thing well said will be wit in all languages. John Dryden
language humans human-society
You couldn't have human society without language. John Maynard Smith
language
Language changes very fast.
language simulation music-is
Music is a simulation of something, but language is the greatest thing we possess. John Lydon
language rich trouble
[Armenian] is a rich language, however, and would amply repay any one the trouble of learning it. Lord Byron
language speak armenians
Armenian is the language to speak with God.
language speak company
Speak the language of the company you are in; speak it purely, and unlarded with any other. Lord Chesterfield
language brahmins english-language
Englishmen must learn to be Brahmins, not banias. Mahatma Gandhi
language paradox knows
Paradox: how do we know what we have failed to see because we have no language to express it, thus we cannot know that we have failed to see it. Joyce Carol Oates
language source
Let language be the divining rod that finds the sources of thought. Karl Kraus
language
Life doesn't exist inside language: too bad for me. Kathy Acker
language quantum
No language which lends itself to visualizability can describe quantum jumps. Max Born
language
You have to learn the language of Hamlet. Edward Bond