Language Quotes
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I think that phrase is the most horrible phrase in the English language - 'I don't know.' It's terribly embarrassing.
Jim Morrison The Doors -
It is as if the ordinary language we use every day has a hidden set of signals, a kind of secret code.
William Stafford
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The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.
Juan Goytisolo -
C is the assembly language of Tcl.
Karl Lehenbauer -
If anything, I see myself as a witness. I'd also be pleased, if you'd call me an interpreter. I try to hear and see the message of a place and pass it on, into that other language, the universal one of images.
Wim Wenders -
Learning astrology is like learning any foreign language. You already have the ideas, concepts, and experiences of your life within you; you are just learning a new language for what you are already experiencing.
Barbara Goldsmith -
Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.
Benjamin Lee Whorf -
I heard someone say he [Carl Sandburg] was the kind of writer who had everything to gain and nothing to lose by being translated into another language.
Robert Frost
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We never really know and the very fact that there are such words in the language as disappointment, regret, etc., is testimony to the pervasiveness and persistence of this feature of the human condition.
Thomas Sowell -
Written language must be considered as a particular psychic reality. The book is permanent; it is an object in your field of vision. It speaks to you with a monotonous authority which even its author would not have. You are fairly obliged to read what is written.
Gaston Bachelard -
The language of soul. . . possesses a pronounced lyrical quality which is frequently incompatible to any music other than that ceaseless and relentlessly driving rhythm that flows from poignantly spent ideas.
Claude Brown -
resignation, perhaps the most stifling word in the language.
Caitlin Thomas -
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 -
Indulge me, John. Cynicism and foul language are the only vices I'm presently capable of. Everything else takes energy or money.
Mary Doria Russell
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Russian is a very deceptive language, because it looks easy at first: it's like setting out for a gentle stroll and realizing that you've committed yourself to scaling Himalayan peaks.
Armand Hammer -
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 -
I get along with all the women singers, but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly language.
Loretta Lynn -
I had always suspected language was quite limited in its ability to communicate the intricate mysteries of truth.
Donald Miller -
We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.
Vladimir Lenin -
The good thing about not speaking the language is you just listen. You listen to everyone, every producer, every writer.
DJ Snake
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God speaks in the language you know best - not through your ears, but through your circumstances.
Oswald Chambers -
When our veterans walk into any VA facility, they converse with men and women who speak the unique language of military service.
Robert Wilkie -
My biggest challenge was obviously the language issue as I didn’t speak a word of English when I moved to London. As a young teenager, I had a major identity crisis at the time and felt like I lost all my future, friends and ability to express myself to anyone.
Jihea Oh Hillsong United -
Translating from one language to another, unless it is from Greek and Latin, the queens of all languages, is like looking at Flemish tapestries from the wrong side, for although the figures are visible, they are covered by threads that obscure them, and cannot be seen with the smoothness and color of the right side.
Miguel de Cervantes