Language Quotes

• Two of the saddest words in the English language are, 'What party?' And LA is the 'What party?' capital of the world.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • World
  • Party
  • Language

• You and I must realize that the English language is filled with words that, in addition to their literal meanings, convey distinct emotional intensity. For example, if you develop a habit of saying you 'hate' things - you 'hate' your hair; you 'hate' your job; you 'hate' having to do something - do you think this raises the intensity of your negative emotional states more than if you use a phrase like 'I prefer something else'?

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Thinking
  • Hate
  • Emotional

• I pray for meaning. I pray for the limits of reality to become clear. For a world – and a type of being – that makes sense. I pray for a life after death that is not like this life. I pray for the end of mystery. What would a life be like with all the mysteries solved? If there were no questions, there’d be no stories. If there were no stories, there’d be no language. If there was no language there’d be no . . . What?

  

  Scarlett Thomas
  • World
  • Reality
  • Mystery

• This language is beginning to invent another me.

  

  Eva Hoffman
  • Language
  • Invent

• While men's rights are guaranteed by specific language in the Constitution, women's equal rights aren't mentioned.

  

  Carolyn Maloney
  • Language
  • Constitution
  • Rights

• What I think is going on is that probably language was entertainment long before it was meaning. It's a kind of tuneless singing.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Long
  • Kind
  • Singing

• There was some kind of special power involved in repurposing language, redistributing the voices, changing the principle of patterning, faint sparks of alternative meaning in the shadow of the original sense, the narrative.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Language
  • Shadow
  • Changing

• The great minds, the great works transcend all limitations of time, of language, and of race, and the scholar can never feel initiated into the company of the elect until he can approach all of life's problems from the cosmopolitan standpoint.

  

  William Osler
  • Mind
  • Problem
  • Teaching

• Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Poetry
  • Language
  • Essentials

• Because French is the language of love, my boy. Something you should keep in mind, but will soon forget.

  

  William W. Johnstone
  • Love
  • Should
  • Forget

• I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language.

  

  Paul Muldoon
  • Language
  • Repetition
  • Rhyme

• Felicity, not fluency of language, is a merit.

  

  Edwin Percy Whipple
  • Language
  • Merit
  • Felicity

• Skepticism cannot be revolutionary, even though it speaks the language of revolution.

  

  Raymond Aron
  • Language
  • Revolution
  • Skepticism

• Further, I'm obsessed with how language contorts and creates bodies.

  

  Peter Sotos
  • Language
  • Bodies
  • Creates

• I used some vivid language that, if I could take it back, I'd take it back. It's not my intention to be personally critical of the President or of anyone else.

  

  Paul O'Neill
  • Language
  • Intention
  • Critical

• Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • Dream
  • Color
  • Mysterious

• If you do not know his language, you will never understand a foreigner's silence.

  

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
  • Language
  • Silence
  • Foreigners

• It is silly to call fat people "gravitationally challenged", a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom of political frustration.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Political
  • Silly
  • Frustration

• If I walk into a room of 500 people, my standard is, if I can't give 400 or 450 of you something, a language or a new way of seeing something, then I have failed. If I get 100 of you, I am a failure. I have to get a majority.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Rooms
  • Majority
  • Walks

• The language of faith is crucial because it affords human beings the privilege of intimacy with the ultimate.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Humans
  • Intimacy
  • Privilege

• Musicians can travel all over the world and have an audience, because there's no language barrier.

  

  Tommy Chong
  • World
  • Audience
  • Musician

• Ballet is not technique, not a way of doing things, but a means of expression that comes perhaps more closely to the inner language of man than any other.

  

  George Sava
  • Language
  • Expression
  • Ballet

• If we could talk to the animals, learn their languages, maybe take an animal degree.

  

  Rex Harrison
  • Language
  • Degrees

• Two of the hardest words in the language to rhyme are life and love. Of all words!

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Love
  • Age
  • Language

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