Language Quotes

It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language.

Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.

Yes, living voices in a living language, so it seemed to us.

Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish writers who write in German.

Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.

Playing golf is like learning a foreign language.

After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country.

When the heart speaks, its language is the same under all latitudes.

I would say colonialism is a wonderful thing. It spread civilization to Africa. Before it they had no written language, no wheel as we know it, no schools, no hospitals, not even normal clothing.

I learned how to sign because when I was growing up in California in order to get into college you needed two semesters of language to get into a University of California school.

So women are at the beginning of building a language, and not all women are conscious of it.

Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion.

I thought it was respectful to each country to sing in their language.

For humanism also appeals to man as man. It seeks to liberate the universal qualities of human nature from the narrow limitations of blood and soil and class and to create a common language and a common culture in which men can realize their common humanity.

China is starting an English-speaking television network around the world, Russia is, Al Jazeera. And the BBC is cutting back on its many language services around the world.

There is no doubt that this film is autobiographical, but at the same time it also tries to portray an ordinary couple in a language that everyone can understand.

Tears are the noble language of the eye.

My French is still good. That's a beautiful language and I'm happy to speak it.

Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage.

To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language.

High thoughts must have high language.

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

I was always getting run-down from jet lag and being in strange towns where I didn't speak the language or know what the food was like.

I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct us toward ultimate reality.

If I were assigned poems I suppose I'd write more of them but it is entirely voluntary and for the most part ignored in the market sense of the word so the language to me is most intimate, most important, most sublime and most satisfying when it gets done.

I have never designed a language for its own sake.

The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression.

If you have a craftsman's command of the language and basic writing techniques you'll be able to write - as long as you know what you want to say.

Of course the other and more serious way in which it all happens is that one finds in poems and language some quality one appropriates for oneself and wishes to reproduce.

I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.