Language Quotes - Page 13

It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.

One is almost tempted to say that the language itself is a mythology deprived of its vitality, a bloodless mythology so to speak, which has only preserved in a formal and abstract form what mythology contains in living and concrete form.

Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society.

Language creates reality. Words have power. Speak always to create joy.

A simple smile, a tender touch, speaks the true language of love.

To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.

I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.

Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

Mathematics is pure language - the language of science. It is unique among languages in its ability to provide precise expression for every thought or concept that can be formulated in its terms.

Our language is primarily for expressing human goodness and beauty.

Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there was a further acceleration of time and the rate of change.

Languages are the pedigree of nations.

Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.

I speak to people in the languagethey understand. First I have a dialogue, if that is not understood I speak inanother language. There is no remedy for this.

Words have a longer life than deeds.

Talk to Allah in your own language with your heart fully present. Allah doesn't need you to rhyme or speak arabic.

Make peace with guilt. Guilt is a poisonous illusion. Many languages don't even have a word for guilt.

If the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless.

For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love.

Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.

Jim Jarmusch: Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.

Nothing in life is fair. Fair is a dirty word and I'll thank you not to use that language around me.

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.

I'm still uncertain about the language declaration syntax.