Language Quotes

I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.

I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.

It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that it will have much more influence than even Shakespeare upon the written and spoken language of the English race.

When Toots finally could breathe again and the blood returned to his brain, he recalled that he had not passed or been passed by Jackie at any time in the race. Toots never used foul language but he came close that night. Jackie paid.

The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

I don't know what 'operational control' of the border means, but I do understand the English language. And as I understand that phrase, that's not true. We do not have operational control.

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care.

You get the feeling that many of my guests feel that the French language gives them entry into a more cultivated, more intelligent world, more highly civilised too, with rules.

God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing.

Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.

After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?

The Semantic Web isn't inherently complex. The Semantic Web language, at its heart, is very, very simple. It's just about the relationships between things.

My first language is Gaelic.

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

Even if I think in English, it's more a language of acting than French.

The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.

I get along with all the women singers, but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly language.

Look at the coded language the Right is using against President Barack Obama. Openly calling him a liar in Congress, saying he is 'not a Christian, he was not born here, he is not one of us.' That makes addressing such issues trickier for the first African-American in the White House.