Language Quotes

• God is gracious beyond the power of language to describe.

  

  Francis Asbury
  • God
  • Power
  • Gracious

• The superior man undergoes three changes. Looked at from a distance, he appears stern; when approached, he is mild; when he is heard to speak, his language is firm and decided.

  

  Confucius
  • Language
  • Distance
  • Changes

• He is not to them what he is to me," I thought: "he is not of their kind. I believe he is of mine- I am sure he is- I feel akin to him- I understand the language of his countenance and movements: though rank and wealth sever us widely, I have something in my brain and heart, in my blood and nerves, that assimilates me mentally to him.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Language
  • Movements
  • Countenance

• Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up.

  

  Herb Ritts
  • Culture
  • Speak
  • Familiar

• It is in the ordinary events of every day that we develop the proactive capacity to handle the extraordinary pressures of life. It's how we make and keep commitments, how we handle a traffic jam, how we respond to an irate customer or a disobedient child. It's how we view our problems and where we focus our energies. It's the language we use.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Children
  • Energy
  • Problem

• If you can take photographs with language, I'm taking one right now.

  

  Lewis Hine
  • Language
  • Take
  • Photographs

• It was as though I found the language I'd wanted from photography; the expression that I got partly from photography, I got completely from cooking.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • Photography
  • Cooking
  • Expression

• Through yoga, meditation and other spiritual practices, we can learn the ways of personal equanimity. We can also learn how to use language in beneficial ways.

  

  Satish Kumar
  • Spiritual
  • Yoga
  • Meditation

• I've been lucky with the circle of people I'm playing with. We've played enough that there's a language we talk with each other when we play.

  

  Bill Frisell
  • Play
  • Enough
  • Lucky

• Language is a spiritual mansion in which you live and nobody has the right to evict you.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Language
  • Mansion

• Language exists to communicate whatever it can communicate. Some things it communicates so badly that we never attempt to communicate them by words if any other medium is available.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Words
  • Communicate
  • Mediums

• Reality is captured in the categorical nets of Language only at the expense of fatal distortion.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Reality
  • Language
  • Distortion

• They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Communication
  • Stolen
  • Scrap

• You meditate and then you can put on your pajamas, or you can imagine you're wearing your pajamas, and you talk about your piece of writing in the language you would use if you were wearing your pajamas and you were seated at a table with your very good friend. And you wouldn't have to get all dressed up or clean up the table.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Writing
  • Imagine
  • Pieces

• If I have a foreign accent—which I much regret—it is cosmopolitan, but not Teutonic. I am a daughter of the great Jewish race, and my somewhat uncultivated language is the outcome of our enforced wanderings.

  

  Sarah Bernhardt
  • Daughter
  • Jewish
  • Accent

• If Language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant. If what is said is not what is meant, then what ought to be done, remains undone.

  

  Confucius
  • Language
  • Remains
  • Meant

• You may buy from me in your own language, but sell to me in mine.

  

  Willy Brandt
  • May
  • Language
  • Mines

• My principal failing as a writer is the lack of spontaneity; the nuisance of parallel thoughts, second thoughts, third thoughts; inability to express myself properly in any language unless I compose every damned sentence in my bath, in my mind, at my desk.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Mind
  • Failing
  • Spontaneity

• My sense is that we may not need the language of innateness or genetics to understand that we are all ethically bound to recognize another person's declared or enacted sense of sex and/or gender. We do not have to agree upon the "origins" of that sense of self to agree that it is ethically obligatory to support and recognize sexed and gendered modes of being that are crucial to a person's well-being.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Recognize
  • Gender
  • Genetics

• I've been in New York only a few days and I have learned only two words of your language: one is Swell, and the other is Lousy. ... 'It's swell to be with you and excuse, please, my lousy English!

  

  Vicki Baum
  • Words
  • Lousy
  • Swell

• I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian.

  

  Michelle Hunziker
  • School
  • Language
  • Educated

• I was more worn out with the "Odyssey" than it was with the "Iliad." I mean, just comparing those two - you can see how it's changing, how the language of the "Iliad" is somehow monstrously new - and that language of the "Odyssey" is more comfortable, even for us.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Mean
  • Compare
  • Odyssey

• The most important word in the language of the working class is "solidarity."

  

  Harry Bridges
  • Important
  • Language
  • Word

• We're bombarded with images. Take the time to stop and look at something then connect with them and maybe they're thinking the same thing, I used a lot of devices to catch the eye of people who have seen a lot of stuff, having worked in advertising and in editorial. I have learned to get someone to stop and look at something, that language.

  

  David LaChapelle
  • People
  • Time
  • Thinking

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