Language Quotes

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.

We can take some gratification at having come a certain distance in just a few thousand years of our existence as language users, but it should be a deeper satisfaction, even an exhilaration, to recognize that we have such a distance still to go.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

I think it's linked to the realisation that we're not going to live forever and that the way of saying and the language become more important than the story.

The stuff that I dig, it's usually got a soulful component to it. A singer that I really like. I might not understand the language that they're singing in, but I'm really communing with this person.

Further, I'm obsessed with how language contorts and creates bodies.

Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other.

The process of filmmaking is very musical, you get into the rhythm and the rhythmics of how someone is, especially with Woody Allen who is very much into body language and body movement.

Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.

I do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not allow me to take.

I have three tools at my disposal - my whistle, my body language and my talk. It is a question of how I marry them up to try to get the players around to my way of thinking.

If you can not master your language you must be it's slave.

We Liberal Democrats believe in dialogue. We believe in cooperation with both sides of industry and between both sides of industry. And we believe in the language of cooperation. We reject the language of confrontation.

The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.

My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language.

I want a language that speaks the truth.

Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.