Language Quotes

The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language.

Of course the activists—not those whose thinking had become rigid, but those whose approach to revol...

I don't understand why people never say what they mean. It's like the immigrants who come to a count...

In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose ...

She suddenly remembered studying the brain in science class- how a steel rod pierced a man's skull, ...

I like the word ‘evil’. Scramble it a little and you will get ‘vile’ and ‘live’. ‘Good’, on the othe...

Du hast so viele Leben, wie du Sprachen sprichst. (You have as many lives as the number of languages...

Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks they can talk about language.

The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.

Why? Because true translation is not a binary affair between two languages but a triangular affair. ...

A spoken language is a body, a living creature, whose physiognomy is verbal and whose visceral funct...

We read and reread the words of the original text in order to penetrate through them, to reach, to t...

Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation kno...

You have to fall in love with hanging around words.

Language has not the power to speak what love inditesThe soul lies buried in the Ink that writes

More than kisses letters mingle souls.

Every one has experienced how learning an appropriate name for what was dim and vague cleared up and...

A mixture, before the English, of irritation and bafflement, of having this same language, same past...

We have a bad habit of seeing books as sort of cheaply made movies where the words do nothing but cr...

You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.

In a society so estranged from animals as ours, we often fail to credit them with any form of langua...

The more clearly we are able to express ourselves, the less room there is for ambiguity. The more el...

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.

In other words, all the highest aims of language are decisively the work of God. They are decisively...

In other words, all the highest aims of language are decisively the work of God. They are decisively...

In other words, all the highest aims of language are decisively the work of God. They are decisively...

In other words, all the highest aims of language are decisively the work of God. They are decisively...

But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most impor...

Her face looked for the answer that is always concealed in language.

Radio and television speech becomes standardized, perhaps better English than we have ever used. Jus...

Language is the light of the mind.

Whenever the nature of the subject permits the reasoning process to be without danger carried on mec...

The violence of language consists in its effort to capture the ineffable and, hence, to destroy it, ...

Never use a big word when a little filthy one will do.

As our larynxes descended, we were able to make sounds with our mouths in new and far more expressiv...

Since Hiroshima and the Holocaust, science no longer holds its pristine place as the highest moral a...

There are objects made up of two sense elements, one visual, the other auditory—the colour of a sunr...

I cannot combine some charactersdhcmrlchtdjwhich the divine Library has not foreseen and which in on...

There is nothing but quotations left for us. Our language is a system of quotations.

I belong to the Russian language. As to the state, from my point of view, the measure of a writer's ...

[T]he accumulation of things not spelled out, not properly articulated, may result in neurosis.

Poetry seems to be the only weapon able to beat language, using language's own means.

Writing in English is like throwing mud at a wall.

There is a weird power in a spoken word.

Words like eyeglasses blur everything that they do not make clear.

He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish.

What said those two souls communicating through the language of the eyes, more perfect than that of ...

Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might ...

In a matter of a moment the amount of sand in the upper part of the hour-glass had dwindled dramatic...

Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and comm...

Holding the lamb in his arms, Jesus watched the people file past, some coming, some going, some carr...

Poetry, as odd as it is, and as hard to figure out as it is, many times, it's almost something that ...

You can define a net two ways, depending on your point of view. Normally you would say it is a meshe...

Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary tries in vain to lock inside every free word.

From the structure of language comes the explanation of why the human spirit is condemned to an odys...

Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.

Language is as old as consciousness, language is practical, real consciousness that exists for other...

She said the words, and then she had a strange moment of seeing them, hanging there over her head. "...

I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some w...

Life doesn't exist inside language: too bad for me.

So yes, I say things I regret constantly, and I just can't help it.

Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in th...

For me, art in our time is strongest when it is aware of science, includes science, is inspired by s...

Perhaps that's why they had been so happy to learn a new tongue in the first place : the self consci...

I really want to do a film in another language. My dad's from Germany, so it'd be really cool to do ...

I was unhappy for a long time, and very lonesome, living with my grandmother. Then it was that books...

I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figur...

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

'twas bryllig and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe All mimsy were the borogoves An...

When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it t...

'When I use a word ' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone 'it means just what I choose it t...

Then you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on."I do," Alice hastily replied; "at least-...

Alice thought to herself, 'Then there's no use in speaking.' The voices didn't join in this time, as...

Speak English!" said the Eaglet. "I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and, what's mor...

For instance, take the two words "fuming" and "furious." Make up your mind that you will say both wo...

When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to...

Wow, I miss Latin. So much fun - all those exciting verbs that don't come unit the end of the senten...

Finally he steeled himself to read the final rule again. He had been trained since earliest childhoo...

Letter-writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.

Everyone is not able, or inclined, to write poetry in the narrower sense any more than everyone is q...

If, as I suspect, my body survives by uttering itself over and over again, then I have some question...

Of course, English is a very powerful language, a colonizer's language and a gift to a writer. Engli...

The limits of your language are the limits of your world.

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

The limits of my language means the limits of my world.

The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

An entire mythology is stored within our language.

If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.

A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language ...

The silent adjustments to understand colloquial language are enormously complicated.

Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert u...

That of which we cannot speak, we must pass over in silence

Language disguises the thought; so that from the external form of the clothes one cannot infer the f...

It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language dis...

We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we...

Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complicat...

But I am a storyteller, and that involves language, for me the English language, that wonderfully ri...

It wasn't that Henry was less of himself in English. He was less of himself out loud. His native lan...

We thought speaking in English meant you were more intelligent. We were wrong of course. It does not...