Language Quotes

I know what the structure of the language is.

In general, every country has the language it deserves.

Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics.

I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language.

The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language.

One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.

I'm trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through.

A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs.

I would guess that the decision to create a small special purpose language or use an existing general purpose language is one of the toughest decisions that anyone facing the need for a new language must make.

Language is a social art.

Sometimes your body language is enough for an actor to know that you're not happy. And you don't really need to say it out loud if you deal with actors you know very well. And I don't think you really need to be explicit.

No language is rude that can boast polite writers.

I'd never really been content with just churning out these slim volumes every three or four years. I've always tried to think of poetry as an active ingredient in the language rather than just something that appears between the covers of thin books.

The very special place that a language occupies among institutions is undeniable, but there is much more to be said-, a comparison would tend rather to bring out the differences.

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.

War is what happens when language fails.

Now, the language that had grown up and formed itself on those principles is what one is dealing with, and the problem is to bring a work of art in that medium into another medium formed on different principles and heard and understood in a different way.

I do have a regard for the musicality of language that came from BBC sitcoms like 'Fawlty Towers.'

As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and is in no better case than a constructed language.

APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums.

What's great is that because math is such a universal language, really, our fans come in all shapes and sizes, all ages and genders and races and backgrounds and cultures.

Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means.

Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage and delight the inner ear.

Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.

I do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not allow me to take.

I have three tools at my disposal - my whistle, my body language and my talk. It is a question of how I marry them up to try to get the players around to my way of thinking.

If you can not master your language you must be it's slave.

We Liberal Democrats believe in dialogue. We believe in cooperation with both sides of industry and between both sides of industry. And we believe in the language of cooperation. We reject the language of confrontation.

The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.

My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language.