Language Quotes
- Page 26Although I'm not fluent in sign language by a long way, I could have a fairly decent conversation.
Paul Theroux
The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. Not just in a 'free beer' kind of way, but also in the free speech kind of way.
Jimmy Wales
Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health.
George Herbert
If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.
Haruki Murakami
In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground.
Diane Wakoski
Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language.
Leo Ornstein
In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social factors, one's own language above all.
Edward Sapir
All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously incomprehensible to our soul now become the meaningful language of nature.
Rudolf Steiner
As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.
George Will
Science is the international language, so when we are able to convince countries that good decision-making for human health and animal health is based upon science, that's a real success story for us.
Mike Johanns
But those two plays left me on fresh terms with language. I didn't always have to speak in my own voice.
James Merrill
Keep a journal, and learn how to see how you as an individuals sees information so you can learn your own sign language. Meditate and practice psychic self defense and surrounding yourself with prayer.
John Edward
Somebody said to me that I speak English almost like somebody for whom English is not their first language.
Christopher Walken
Language for me narrates the pictures in my mind. When I work on designing livestock equipment I can test run that equipment in my head like 3-D virtual reality. In fact, when I was in college I used to think that everybody was able to do that.
Temple Grandin
A young man who is here speaks the Panis language, and in many other respects, is preferable.
Zebulon Pike
We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that he deserved to suffer what he did suffer is to do violence not merely to language but to any healthy moral sense.
Andrew Coyle Bradley
Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.
Alfred North Whitehead
Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.
Ferdinand de Saussure
One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language.
Alma Guillermoprieto