Language Quotes

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.

I dislike math, yet I respect and appreciate the fact that math is the language of the universe.