Language Quotes

Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.

In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible.

Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.

The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.

Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language.

Language is memory and metaphor.

Russian is such a tough and complex language that I am happy enough to understand everything and read most things pretty well, but, without constant practice, my speech is not what I wish it was, and I would sooner write in crayon than write a letter in Russian.

I dislike math, yet I respect and appreciate the fact that math is the language of the universe.

Restoring the Welsh language in Wales is nothing less than a revolution. It is only through revolutionary means that we can succeed.

In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed it.

Films, fiction, can encompass a whole global vision on a particular subject with any story, whatever it is. You can play the story in whatever country with whatever language in whatever style you want to tell the story in.

I think we're still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate.

Why on earth do we want closer connection with England? We have little in common with English people except our language. We are fast becoming an entirely different people.

I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.

I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.

It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that it will have much more influence than even Shakespeare upon the written and spoken language of the English race.

When Toots finally could breathe again and the blood returned to his brain, he recalled that he had not passed or been passed by Jackie at any time in the race. Toots never used foul language but he came close that night. Jackie paid.

The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

I don't know what 'operational control' of the border means, but I do understand the English language. And as I understand that phrase, that's not true. We do not have operational control.

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care.

You get the feeling that many of my guests feel that the French language gives them entry into a more cultivated, more intelligent world, more highly civilised too, with rules.

God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing.

Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.

After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?

The Semantic Web isn't inherently complex. The Semantic Web language, at its heart, is very, very simple. It's just about the relationships between things.

In the plays - that's where I go crazy. But my prose has a much lighter touch; it's not trying to thrill with language, just to be more truthful. I'm not concerned with the accuracy of anything. We don't get to the truth of anything with facts.

Do not be troubled for a language, cultivate your soul and she will show herself.

And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.