Language Quotes

Could you imagine if we could leapfrog language and communicate directly with human thought? What would we be capable of then? And how will we learn to deal with the truths of unfiltered human thought? You think the Internet was big. These are huge questions.

Mary Lou Jepsen

ThinkThoughtLanguageLearnYou

Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.

William Golding

ExperienceLanguageOverLikeFits

The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist in fictitious life an uncertain model to copy and unstable materials to work in.

George Saintsbury

LifeWorkProcessLanguageGiving

A marvellous power of expression over language often distinguishes genius; but Shakespeare in his phrases seems independent of the bonds of language as of the bonds of metre.

George Edward Woodberry

PowerLanguageGeniusIndependent

I kind of do this awkward body language because, growing up, I had a really hard time expressing myself vocally.

Analeigh Tipton

TimeMyselfGrowing UpLanguageBody

I love the Bronte sisters, but I feel a closer kinship to the Ephron sisters, Nora and Delia, if only because their work makes me laugh more than the Brontes. I also love the Mitford sisters with their secret language and their endless letters back and forth.

Kate Klise

WorkLoveMeLanguageFeelLaugh

It is of no use to commit whole pages to memory, merely to recite them once without hesitation; you must think of the meaning more than the words - of the ideas more than the language.

Dorothea Dix

WordsMemoryIdeasThinkLanguage

Each of you possesses the most powerful, dangerous and subversive trait that natural selection has ever devised. It's a piece of neural audio technology for rewiring other people's minds. I'm talking about your language.

Mark Pagel

TechnologyPeopleLanguagePowerful

For me, cooking is the only way I know how to show my love. That's why I am so passionate about food. It's such a love language.

Ayesha Curry

LoveFoodCookingI AmMeLanguage

Stories that can be told through language and words don't need to be filmed.

Jiang Wen

WordsLanguageNeedThroughStories

I'm very comfortable in Argentina. I was raised there as a baby and stayed there until I was 11 years old, so the first decade of my life or my formative years were spent in Argentina. I stayed in tune with the food, music and language.

Viggo Mortensen

LifeMusicFoodBabyLanguageFirst

In the GNOME project we tried to keep the platform language independent.

Miguel de Icaza

LanguageIndependentProjectKeep

The novelist's obsession, moment by moment, is with language: finding the right next word.

Philip Roth

MomentLanguageFindingRightNext

In Israel, the role of the writer is dictated by the language in which you write. Writers see themselves as cultural prophets.

Etgar Keret

LanguageYouWriteSeeIsraelRole

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.

Heinrich Heine

DeathPeopleCommunismLanguageEnvy

There is a wealth of readership for regional language literature in India that is not given importance. We must give respect to our own languages.

Amish Tripathi

RespectLanguageLiteratureWealth

Every time you learn a new language, your understanding of language overall grows, so every time I would learn new music, my understanding of music would grow because I was taken to an extreme in a different direction, and that was, in effect, carrying over into what I do.

Kamasi Washington

MusicTimeDirectionLanguageLearn

Appropriation was the language of my generation in many ways. It came out of Duchamp, Warhol, Johns, Lichtenstein.

Deborah Kass

LanguageGenerationOutManyWays

It cannot be said that the Constitution formed 'the people of the United States,' for all time, into a corporation. It does not speak of 'the people' as a corporation, but as individuals. A corporation does not describe itself as 'we,' nor as 'people,' nor as 'ourselves.' Nor does a corporation, in legal language, have any 'posterity.'

Lysander Spooner

TimePeopleSpeakLegalLanguage

I think if you work with different kinds of codes, attitudes, in the end you have a language. It's like within a person. You are not always the same.

Alessandro Michele

WorkThinkEndLanguageYouPerson

I think we can bring a new retail language to Rockefeller Center that would really change Midtown.

Jerry Speyer

ChangeThinkLanguageNewBring

I traveled a full two years with 'Language of Flowers.'

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

FlowersLanguageTraveledTwoYears

In any area of the U.N. we... have to agree on certain language that can represent the same spirit, but that can be accepted by everyone.

Michelle Bachelet

LanguageSpiritSameEveryoneAgree

I will do films in any of the languages, provided the script is good. The region and the language don't matter.

Prabhas

GoodLanguageWillMatterScript

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