Language Quotes

Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own literary language.

Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions.

Language cares.

In general, I agree with Jacob Grimm and feel that we ought to permit changes and uncontrolled growth in language. Even though that also allows potentially threatening new words to develop, language needs the chance to constantly renew itself.

It feels wonderful to be go back to the 1940s and recreate the whole era through my clothes, voice and body language. I am tired of playing the larger-than-life hero.

Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.

I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of content in the world. Language content, musical content, spatial content, numerical content, etc.

Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past.

All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by God to manifest himself. But this relationship is secret and incomprehensible, beyond the bounds of reason and analysis.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.

Making an Irishness to be proud of in a real Republic. It is the vision of a real Republic where life and language, where ideals and experience have the ring of authenticity which we need now as we go forward.

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

We believe the Senate language provides for federal subsidies for abortions. Plus there's a language in there where you have to pay one dollar per month, every enrollee, to pay for a fund for reproductive rights which include abortion. And that's totally against federal law. So we are saying take that out.

Neither Aristotelian nor Russellian rules give the exact logic of any expression of ordinary language; for ordinary language has no exact logic.

Music is a great energizer. It's a language everybody knows.

I do not share the wish to see my language dead and decently buried.

Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.

A standard international language should not only be simple, regular, and logical, but also rich and creative.

Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

Music, as many people have said, is the universal language. Of course points are made which make you think about things, but ultimately it makes you feel. And that's why people remember more songs that have meant something during their life than films. They start to define periods in your life, and that's kind of the beauty of it.

The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.

All the dialogue on tape, and we'd play the tape in performance. Then I thought it'd be interesting if the actor's repeated what they heard on the tape, but at a slower speed, so we'd get a web of language.

Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language.

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.

One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.

Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising.

Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language that you're singing in, they still know good music when they hear it.