Language Quotes - Page 10

Music is its own language - if you don't speak it, it's hard to say what you're trying to do.

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.

Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught.

Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs, fascinating religions, and more.

If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who should and do know better.

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.

We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

Language is generated by the intellect and generates the intellect.

Only one thing remained reachable, close and secure amid all losses: language. Yes, language. In spite of everything, it remained secure against loss.

Nothing exists except through language.

[Y]ou possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.

Language and accents govern so much of how people think about other people.

A person who acquires English has access to all the things that that language makes possible.

Fashion is instant language.

I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.

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.

We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.

Since music is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man.

I speak only one language, and it is not my own.

The gentleman is generous and treats all men as his equals, especially those whom he feels to be inferior in rank and wealth.

C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage

The questioner has to come to an end. It is the questioner that creates the answer; and the questioner comes into being from the answer, otherwise there is no questioner.

Why all these signs around us that make me doubt language and submerge me in meanings, drowning reality instead of extracting it from the imaginary?

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

Written forms obscure our view of language. They are not so much a garment as a disguise.