Language Quotes

There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain.

Language is a virus from outer space.

The payment made by a manufacturer to a patentee for the privilege of using the patent process, is usually termed, in commercial language, a rent; and under the same head must be ranked all extraordinary qualities of body and mind.

Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up.

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.

I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.

Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside!

I must stick with Chinese language films.

Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.

Between 1910 and 1950 approximately 350 lives of Jesus were published in the English language alone.

Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around.

It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to master a foreign language if you're not brought up with it.

"Let God be true but every man a liar" is the language of true faith.

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.

The first few weeks football players look at you like you are speaking a foreign language. My job is to get them to trust me, trust the system. I ask them to run in a way that makes no sense to them.

The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in clarity, and in restraint.

We may come to Jesus and ask Him; He will know all about it; if He comes to a little child, he will adapt himself to the language and capacity of a little child.

It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Tears are the silent language of grief.

Welsh is my mother tongue, and my children speak it. If you come and live in this community you'll work out pretty quickly that it's beneficial to learn the language, because if you're going to the pub or a cafe you need to be a part of the local life.

There is a pride in speaking this language.

Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.

Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the language of science.

Well, with the French language, which I understood and spoke, however imperfectly, and read in great quantities, at certain times, the matter I suppose was slightly different from either Latin or Greek.

The only thing that exists is torment, lyricism, and the magnificence of language.

You pay your money, you take your choice. I get the audience my language attracts and I lose the ones it repels.

I lived in England to learn English. When I went to England for the first time, it was like being on the Moon. I had no friends, I couldn't speak the language. I was very isolated.

Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.

There are times when the power of language is not the power that is needed.