Language Quotes

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.

Bill Condon, I must say, may have been one of the best professional experiences of my life, collaborating with him. He, himself, is an Academy Award winning screenwriter. He is a storyteller first and foremost, so we speak the same language. We approach things always from the story.

There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for example, a workshop can liberate the students' use of the vocabulary they're acquiring.

Yankees don't understand that the Southern way of talking is a language of nuance. What we can do in the South is we can take a word and change it just a little bit and make it mean something altogether different.

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.

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.

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.

English, once accepted as an international language, is no more secure than French has proved to be as the one and only accepted language of diplomacy or as Latin has proved to be as the international language of science.

If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning.

I was always influenced by language.

Realistically, English is a universal language; it's the number one language for music and for communicating with the rest of the world.

Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.

I said in sharp language that that practice was wrong.