Language Quotes

• Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence.

  

  George Steiner
  • World
  • Language
  • Translation

• Command of English, spoken or written, ranks at the top in business. Our main product is words, so a knowledge of their meaning and spelling and pronunciation is imperative. If a man knows the language well, he can find out about all else.

  

  William Feather
  • Men
  • Command
  • Pronunciation

• I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language behave for them.

  

  Red Smith
  • Writers
  • Grammar
  • Damned

• I stand and listen to people speaking french in the stores and in the street. It's such a pert, crisp language, elegant as ruffling taffeta.

  

  Belva Plain
  • Language
  • Listen
  • Street

• While a people preserves its language; it preserves the marks of liberty.

  

  Jose Rizal
  • People
  • Liberty
  • Mark

• Language cannot describe the scene that followed; the shouts, oaths, frantic gestures, taunts, replies, and little fights; and therefore I shall not attempt it.

  

  Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
  • Describe
  • Shout
  • Taunts

• We understand … that what constitutes the dignity of a craft is that it creates a fellowship, that it binds men together and fashions for them a common language.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Understand
  • Creates
  • Fashions

• Church reminded me very much of going to shul. It was a bunch of men wearing long robes, speaking in a language I didn't understand.

  

  Amy-Jill Levine
  • Church
  • Language
  • Understand

• 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
  • Language
  • Technique
  • Requires

• Not only is the Universe aware of us, but it also communicates with us. We, in turn, are constantly in communication with the Universe through our words, thoughts, and actions. The Universe responds with events. Events are the language of the Universe. The most obvious of those events are what we call coincidence.

  

  Chris Prentiss
  • Universe
  • Actions
  • Communicates

• Poems are language turned into art; sound and sense matter; they can be as long or longer than The Odyssey or as short or shorter than a haiku. Not very helpful.

  

  Campbell McGrath
  • Art
  • Sound
  • Sense

• I might move to Finland, at least for a while, to learn the language a bit better, 'cause you don't learn any language better than in the country itself.

  

  Floor Jansen Nightwish
  • Learn
  • Move
  • Finland

• Music, the word we use in our everyday language, is nothing less than the picture of our Beloved. It is because music is the picture of our Beloved that we love music.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • Music
  • Picture
  • Word

• It's a DVD, and some of it might be shown on TV, so I'll be keeping it clean. There'll be no swearing, bad language or dirty talk. No, no, none of that. Because as my mother always says, "if you have to swear to get laughs, then you're obviously a cunt."

  

  Ed Byrne
  • Mother
  • Clean
  • Laughs

• If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things.

  

  Confucius
  • Truth
  • Language
  • Names

• Apparently Arnold was inspired by President Bush, who proved you can be a successful politician in this country even if English is your second language.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Country
  • English
  • Inspired

• Brian Turner writes as only a soldier can, of terror and compassion, hurt and horror, sympathy and desire. He takes us into the truth and trauma of the Iraq war in language that is precise, delicate and beautiful, even as it tells of a suicide bomber, a skull shattered by a bullet, a blade in a bloodgroove.

  

  Andrew Himes
  • Language
  • Delicate
  • Writes

• It is important to keep in mind that to learn a language is not simply to learn a linguistic means of communication. It is also to learn the way of thinking and feeling of a people who speak and write a language which is different from ours. It is to learn the history and culture underlying their thoughts and emotions and so to learn to empathize with them.

  

  Benedict Anderson
  • History
  • Learn
  • Emotions

• Amid chaos of images, we value coherence. We believe in the printed word. And we believe in clarity. And we believe in immaculate syntax. And in the beauty of the English language.

  

  William Shawn
  • Believe
  • English
  • Clarity

• Even if you're a genius and you invent your own language, it doesn't become a language until there are people using it.

  

  Eyvind Kang
  • Language
  • Genius
  • Invent

• I see a lot of the young comedians think it is clever to use foul language and they think it is funny. It isn’t.

  

  Nicholas Parsons
  • Language
  • Comedians
  • Foul

• A woman who utters such disgusting and depressing noise has no right to be anywhere, no right to live. Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech, that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton and The Bible. Don't sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon.

  

  Rex Harrison
  • Remember
  • Depressing
  • Native

• The Catholic faith never changes. But the language and mode of manifesting this one faith can change according to peoples, times and places.

  

  Francis Arinze
  • Changes
  • Catholic
  • Places

• In fact, is beginning to use a lot of the language and phraseology that we have used. In fact, I think I saw Hillary Clinton TV ad, and I thought it was me.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • TV
  • Hillary Clinton
  • Phraseology

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