Language Quotes

I'm interested in Russian language, culture, history... and I lived there, for four years, as a reporter for the Washington Post and have visited many times since.

It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You also have problems, because on bad days you don't trust yourself, either in your first or your second language, and so you feel like a complete halfwit.

From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us.

That is where the irony of the film comes off, in terms of the language it employs - where he tries desperately to be a 'TV Dad,' to give advice and it's so pat it becomes ridiculous.

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.

The poem is a form of texting... it's the original text. It's a perfecting of a feeling in language - it's a way of saying more with less, just as texting is.

The eyes have one language everywhere.

I'm not trying to stump anybody... it's the beauty of the language that I'm interested in.

There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others.

It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them.

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.

Good music is very close to primitive language.

In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.

Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a sort of accompaniment to the signified.

Pauley Perrette: I was a criminal science fanatic and went to study it in college as well and I think that helped me on NCIS because I was comfortable with the language, I had studied criminal science in school for years.

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.

Bill Condon, I must say, may have been one of the best professional experiences of my life, collaborating with him. He, himself, is an Academy Award winning screenwriter. He is a storyteller first and foremost, so we speak the same language. We approach things always from the story.

There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for example, a workshop can liberate the students' use of the vocabulary they're acquiring.

Yankees don't understand that the Southern way of talking is a language of nuance. What we can do in the South is we can take a word and change it just a little bit and make it mean something altogether different.

Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.

In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible.

Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.

The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.

Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language.

Language is memory and metaphor.

Russian is such a tough and complex language that I am happy enough to understand everything and read most things pretty well, but, without constant practice, my speech is not what I wish it was, and I would sooner write in crayon than write a letter in Russian.