Language Quotes

Nothing exists except through language.

It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish.

I love that you can have the language between the two worlds of technology and fashion, because I don't think that many designers get to do that.

Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness.

Ever since I was a kid, I just loved those comedians on TV who would just have fun with the language.

To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.

The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking.

So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.

Certain kinds of speed, flow, intensity, density of attacks, density of interaction... Music that concentrates on those qualities is, I think, easier achieved by free improvisation between people sharing a common attitude, a common language.

Language is froth on the surface of thought.

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

Make it, not make it? What's the difference? Music is a language, it's a dance of life, and it can be a part of your life without being something that earns.

We have forgotten that we have not come to an empty land to inherit it, but we have come to conquer a country from people inhabiting it, that governs it by the virtue of its language and savage culture.

My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature's laws, these tasks and principles are indifferent to language, culture, gender, or the particular mode of information that is provided.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

We must examine then the concerns of the Government of Japan about the language of the treaty itself - of SOFA - and of the interim and further arrangements that have been made since 1995, and see whether or not we need to make any changes. Those are decisions I cannot make.

Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.

As basic rules of a language must be practiced continually, and therefore are never fixed, so exercises toward distinct color effects never are done or over. New and different cases will be discovered time and again.

Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt.

The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all to know the culture of our country. They find a kind of French social grace in the language and culture.

Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification.

I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.

I have seen how effective language attached to policies that are mainstream and delivered by people who are passionate and effective can change the course of history.

I can't recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open - any discussion on the matter tended to mention languages whose inventors tried to keep tight control, and consequent ill fate.

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.

Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information.

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

We breathed the air of freedom without knowing the language or any person.

A mind enclosed in language is in prison.