Language Quotes
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A new language requires a new technique. If what you're saying doesn't require a new language, then what you're saying probably isn't new.
Philip Glass
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Nothing so fretful, so despicable as a Scribbler, see what I am, and what a parcel of Scoundrels I have brought about my ears, and what language I have been obliged to treat them with to deal with them in their own way; - all this comes of Authorship.
Lord Byron
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But, after all, the sciences have made progress, because philosophers have applied themselves with more attention to observe, and have communicated to their language that precision and accuracy which they have employed in their observations: In correcting their language they reason better.
Etienne Bonnot de Condillac
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Language is the spiritual exhalation of the nation.
Wilhelm von Humboldt
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Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.
William Bennett
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Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints --the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk --we think we're using the language, but language is doing the thinking, we're its slavish agents.
Harry Mathews
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I guess we all feel like underdogs. I remember being a freshman at Brown University and not knowing what a WASP was. We were reading an Edward Albee play, and - it was just a moment of accepting, certainly that I wasn't very worldly, but also that a lot of the plays that I'd been reading, let's say other kinds of family plays, were speaking a foreign language.
Stephen Karam
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Speak a new language
so that the world
will be a new world.
Rumi
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Content is built on communication. You can't learn anything if you haven't learned how to understand language, or to read.
Kathy Hirsh-Pasek
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Armenian is the language to speak with God.
Lord Byron
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Donald Trump came along and spoke in a language that speaks directly to a portion of the Republican base with what they want to hear. I don`t think that he actually has a very significant ideology.
Ben Domenech
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I tell people all the time, I've always loved music and I love the language, which is a huge reason why I'm part of theater. But, I didn't wanna do all of this. I would've been satisfied to do it, like, on the weekends among friends, and to have a regular job.
Yasiin Bey
Black Star
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The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth.
Rudyard Kipling
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Painting is the only universal language. All nature is creation's picture book. Painting alone can describe every thing which can be seen, and suggest every emotion which can be felt. Art reaches back into the babyhood of time, and is man's only lasting monument.
William Morris Hunt
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We can write the new chapters in a visual language whose prose and poetry will need no translation.
Ernst Haas
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Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means.
Paul de Man
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If we have listening ears, God speaks to us in our own language, whatever that language be.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up.
Herb Ritts
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Better than chanting a thousand words in a dead language is one soothing word spoken in the vernacular.
Gautama Buddha
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Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of thought, but by itself nothing.
John Ruskin
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All of the arts are kin - music and sculpture and dance, those are wordless art forms. But poetry is defined by language. Of course, each art is distinct, and has its own character - not just in terms of media, but in terms of what seems to lie at the heart of it.
Campbell McGrath
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His language was, as I say, under great provocation, violent and unusual. He had a trick of using words which never were on land or sea, and illustrating his instruction or his admonition with the quaintest phraseology.
Edgar Wallace
