Language Quotes

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.

I would love to do a period piece - in the 18th or 17th century. To me, it would be such an incredible challenge because of the way people carried themselves. There are so many incredible stories within those centuries - just the language and the way they carried themselves and what they were going through.

Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.

Duty is the most sublime word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less.

Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families.

The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise?

Words may be false and full of art; Sighs are the natural language of the heart.

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.

While a people preserves its language; it preserves the marks of liberty.

Now, mark it. This may be strong language, but heed it. The people mean it, and, my friends of the Eastern Democracy, we bid farewell when you do that thing.

You know, they were returning to the language of the people and trying to use musical language, particularly as Copland did to create a musical language in which all Americans would feel that they had a stake.

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.

One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language.

We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language.

Coffee is a language in itself.

I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.

There was no language barrier when it came to kids, and when it came to play.

More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English language than any other single factor.

Actually, my correspondent's language is better than mine. He can put his sentiment into words.

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

Language is the house of the truth of Being.

Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.

But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.

An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.

One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer.

I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine.

I thought that subtitles are boring because they're there generally to serve us with information to make you understand what people are saying in a different language.