Top 1200 Language Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

If you know only one language, you're a prisoner, stuck in the tyranny of that one language.

The language of men was involved with only one hemisphere in order to leave the other free for the language of the gods.

This word "LOVE" - discredited, "clicheed" - can be restored and love, the instinct, the impulse to care for somebody in the hope that somebody will care for you - plus our language, the language, a language - is about all we have. With everything else going on, this is what makes us, what keeps us human.

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

We are not taught to think decently on sex subjects, and consequently we have no language for them except indecent language.

It is music that, being the universal language, has no need to learn any particular language of the world.

Truth and falsity is something that concerns language, it's a property of language.

Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written, we learn the language.

It's my language, the language I speak. I've spent a lot more time playing music than talking or writing.

I watched the gorilla's eyes again, wise and knowing eyes, and wondered about this business of trying to teach apes language. Our language. Why? There are many members of our own species who live in and with the forest and know it and understand it. We don't listen to them. What is there to suggest we would listen to anything an ape could tell us? Or that it would be able to tell us of its life in a language that hasn't been born of that life? I thought, maybe it is not that they have yet to gain a language, it is that we have lost one.

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is the language I don't understand.

We like to pile language on language. Hunter [ S. Thompson] was an influence on me, no doubt about it.

Design is just language and the real issue is what you use that language to do.

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.

Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.

We have only the language for fun and miserable, and maybe we need language for deep and shallow, meaningful and meaningless.

I think it's important if you're American to have a second language, and Spanish is the language to have.

Language both reflects and shapes society. Culture shapes language and then language shapes culture. Little wonder that the words we use to talk to each other, and about each other, are the most important words in our language: they tell us who I am, they tell us who you are, they tell us who 'they' are.

When you act, you want to emote and think in that language. I don't enjoy the process of doing a film in a language I am not good with.

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

Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality.

The language skill in the U.S. for the most part has been awful. Many Americans don't learn any foreign language.

When experience flies into realms that language cannot touch, honesty demands beyond-language.

Every language will have different nuances. But language cannot be the basis for discrimination or exclusion.

Dance is so important in the world. It needs no language. Our bodies speak a language of its own.

Poems are a form of music, and language just happens to be our instrument - language and breath.

What I am doing is creating a language. A different American language.

Language is an art, like brewing or baking.... It certainly is not a true instinct, for every language has to be learnt.

If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls.

Grammar is not a set of rules; it is something inherent in the language, and language cannot exist without it. It can be discovered, but not invented.

It’s daunting to find the language so foreign, so distant, but also so thrilling. One is absolved of responsibility when the language is incomprehensible.

I learned that to be amusing was not to be frivolous and that language - always the language - was the magic key as much to prose as to poetry.

Silence is God's language, and it's a very difficult language to learn.

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

You should do whatever language you feel is the perfect language for you to sing in and then try to strive to do the best.

Isn’t the most sensitive point of this mourning the fact that I must lose a language — the amorous language? No more ‘I love you’s.

All the best bands have a language, and what they say within that language makes it is what it is.

Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature.

Instead of this confusion, we need the unifying force of an official language, English, which is the language of success in America.

The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened.

I tell my students to think of poems as language plus, language with value added beyond its everyday use.

I think of myself as a translator. I just change the dry, unfeeling language of data into a visual language that allows for feeling.

I am an actor and I don't have any language barrier. If I get a Tamil film, I will learn the language. It's not a problem.

The traditional statement about language is that it is in itself living, and that writing is the dead part of language.

However virile the English language may be, it can never become the language of the masses of India.

paraphrasing.."Science is the language of the intellect of society. Art is language of the entire human personality.

The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.

Not bad in short, though the last one [understanding the language of animals], isn't half as useful as you might expect, since when all's said and done the language of the beasts tends to revolve around: a) the endless hunt for food, b) finding a warm bush to sleep in the evening, and c) the sporadic satisfication of certain glands. (Many would argue that the language of human kind boils down to this too)

A programming language is like a natural, human language in that it favors certain methaphors, images, and ways of thinking.

The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.

Job Control Language is the worst programming language ever designed anywhere by anybody for any purpose.

Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively.

The Hawaiian language needs to be studied globally as a language of life.

When we talk mathematics, we may be discussing a secondary language built on the primary language of the nervous system.

For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.

We are at a time in our country's history that inclusive language is better than exclusive language.

I love the French language... it's a delightful language, especially to curse with. It's like whopping your ass with silk.

When people say that German or any other language is romantic... all they really mean is that they've enjoyed a past in the language

Sci-Fi is incredibly challenging and has its own language. I have to speak its language; it's not going to learn mine.

It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.