Language Quotes

• Within every word there is the unhealable wound of language.

  

  Edmond Jabes
  • Language
  • Word
  • Wound

• I kind of miss that "becoming" stage, as most times you really don't know what's around the corner. Now, of course, I've kind of knocked on the door and heard a muffled answer. Nevertheless, I still don't know what the voice is saying, or even what language it's in.

  

  David Bowie
  • Kind
  • Missing
  • Answers

• English is the language of a people ho have probably earned their reputation for perfidy and hypocrisy because their language itself is so flexible, so often light-headed with with statements which appear to mean one thing one year and quite a different thing the next.

  

  Paul Scott
  • Language
  • Reputation
  • Flexible

• All of us, just because we are able to talk, also believe we are able to talk about language.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Believe
  • Language
  • Talk

• And I have a dream of a New American Language, one with a little bit more Spanish. I have a dream of a new pop music, that tells the truth with a good beat and some nice harmonies.

  

  Dan Bern
  • Dream
  • Nice
  • Littles

• No intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated.

  

  Plato
  • Language
  • Intelligent
  • Bold

• You have to have a little humility if you're Danish because you're never going to be able to travel outside the country unless you can speak another language.

  

  Sidse Babett Knudsen
  • Country
  • Travel
  • Language

• The die-hard opinions of George III couched in the language of Edmund Burke.

  

  Stanley Baldwin
  • Opinion
  • Hard
  • Dies

• Environment-based education produces student gains in social studies, science, language arts, and math; improves standardized test scores and grade-point averages; and develops skills in problem-solving, critical thinking, and decision-making.

  

  Richard Louv
  • Thinking
  • Problem
  • Social

• What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into concepts.

  

  Anton Webern
  • Music
  • Ideas
  • Humans

• The language that photography has is a formal language. Any photographer is doing something formal. If it's formal, then it must be an aesthetic way to communicate.

  

  Sebastiao Salgado
  • Photography
  • Aesthetic
  • Communicate

• It's nice to represent to other people in the world that Americans actually do know what's happening in the world, can speak other languages and are conscientious. The perception quite often is that we don't know what's beyond our county line.

  

  Cary Fukunaga
  • World
  • Speak
  • Perception

• At Ford Motor Company, we believe the arts speak a common language that weaves a common thread among all people.

  

  William Clay Ford, Jr.
  • Believe
  • Language
  • Speak

• The book is famous for two things: It's an early reader for kids with its simple language. And the second thing is how the fantastic illustrations show dogs doing human things.

  

  Eric Johnson
  • Book
  • Kids
  • Reader

• We need to keep switching up the language around climate change.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Change
  • Climate
  • Switching

• Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.

  

  Rita Dove
  • Powerful
  • Language
  • Distilled

• I've always liked language and been a big reader. I always loved books as objects. My favorite time of year as a child was September when we'd go buy all kinds of notebooks and pens and markers for school. I think I wanted to be a writer just so I'd be able to fill up all those pages.

  

  Elaine Equi
  • School
  • Child
  • Books

• It was just as the 1914 War burst on me that I made the discovery that 'legends' depend on the language to which they belong; but a living language depends equally on the 'legends' which it conveys by tradition. ... Volapuk, Esperanto, Ido, Novial, &c &c are dead, far deader than ancient unused languages, because their authors never invented any Esperanto legends.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • War
  • Tradition
  • Discovery

• I am aware of the technical distinction between ‘less’ and ‘fewer’, and between ‘uninterested’ and ‘disinterested’ and ‘infer’ and ‘imply’, but none of these are of importance to me. ‘None of these are of importance,’ I wrote there, you’ll notice – the old pedantic me would have insisted on “none of them is of importance”. Well I’m glad to say I’ve outgrown that silly approach to language

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Language
  • Importance
  • Glad

• Our vision is every book ever printed in any language fetched and viewable on our eBook Kindle device in under 60 seconds.

  

  Jeff Bezos
  • Book
  • Vision
  • eBook Kindle device

• Being a person of the armed forces is not easy. Performing it is also not easy. There is a sense of discipline and body language that you need to have throughout.

  

  Rana Daggubati
  • Discipline
  • Performing
  • Armed

• Learning another language is like becoming another person.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Learning
  • Language

• If you adopt the body language of a power player, it will greatly facilitate your ability to be a power player.

  

  Nick Morgan
  • Power
  • Player
  • Language

• Malcolm Bradbury made the point, and I don't know whether it's a valid one or not, that the real English at the moment is not the English spoken in England or in America or even in Canada or Australia or New Zealand. The real English is the English which is a second language, so that it's rather like Latin in the days of the Roman Empire when people had their own languages, but had Latin in order to communicate.

  

  William Golding
  • People
  • Real
  • Moments

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