Language Quotes - Page 19

I feel Mahatma Gandhi's non-violence was for the intelligent, educated British.It was not for those who don't understand this language.

Average. It was the worst, most disgusting word in the English language. Nothing meaningful or worthwhile ever came from that word.

We breathed the air of freedom without knowing the language or any person.

There's something in music which is obviously beyond language itself. It's communication in its purest form.

I was concerned with something like the notion of 'language speaking the subject,' and with the transformation of the woman herself into a sign in a system of signs that represent a system of food production, a system of harnessed subjectivity.

The Germans and I no longer speak the same language.

The problem with using C++ ... is that there's already a strong tendency in the language to require you to know everything before you can do anything.

I have never lost my temper. I let out my venom in my writing if I have to, but person-to-person, I have never lost my temper, never used abusive language.

He wanted to think of words that would make some difference but there were none in any language he knew that were sufficient to the moment or that would change a single thing.

As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene.

Words performed through music can express what language alone had exhausted

The inflated style is itself a kind of euphemism. A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up all the details. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much bigger business of plunder.

Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.

Of all the words in all languages I know, the greatest concentration is in the English word I.

The language of art is celestial in origin and can only be understood by the chosen.

In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social factors, one's own language above all.

You can't listen to all that language and filth without it affecting you

At every moment where language can't go, that's your mind.

My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness.

The whole world has changed, so you just stay current with the world. There's nothing different in my language of how I say things.

The tie of language is perhaps the strongest and the most durable that can unite mankind.

Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born.

Act averse to nasty language and partial to fruity tea.

The soul inside me is the last foreign language I'm learning.