Language Quotes

Music is a great energizer. It's a language everybody knows.

I do not share the wish to see my language dead and decently buried.

The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it.

The language of my books has shaped me as a man.

When you're five years old, and you're running a business that people did not think there was room for, getting attention is not a bad thing. Letting it be known by whatever colorful language is necessary is not a bad thing.

In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.

Honestly, I'm cool with everyone, and people pick up on that. I'd say, 'I'm not gay, but it's all good.' It's kind of like going to Paris when you don't know the language; some Americans get into trouble over there, but I'm just like, 'Sorry, I don't speak French.'

Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.

I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically, and most of the time actors can find wonderful clues about character in the rhythm and cadence of the language used.

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.

I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes.

With the requests of some he complied, and has published a discourse, delivered before the Society for recovering drowned persons, which may be justly pronounced one of the most beautiful and interesting sermons in the English language.

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier.

On what rests the hope of the republic? One country, one language, one flag!

A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness.

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

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 importance of an artist is bringing new signs into a language.

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.

Our approach was very simple. It was about creating a universal language. A show that will be attractive toward every people coming from all over the world. And that was a big thing.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you're getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.

Instead of this confusion, we need the unifying force of an official language, English, which is the language of success in America.

It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than I should in terms of the usage of the English language.

Americans can pretty much sing anything, whereas foreign singers are often limited in style, language, even composer.