Language Quotes - Page 2

Women speak two languages - one of which is verbal.

Symbolism is the language of the Mysteries. By symbols men have ever sought to communicate to each other those thoughts which transcend the limitations of language.

God's first language is Silence. Everything else is a translation.

Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.

There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language

If you're offended by any word in any language, it's probably because your parents were unfit to raise a child.

Life, religion and art all converge in Bali. They have no word in their language for 'artist' or 'art.' Everyone is an artist.

The divine communicates to us primarily through the language of the natural world. Not to hear the natural world is not to hear the divine.

In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible... Thus, political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging, and sheer cloudy vagueness... Political language [is] designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.

We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.

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

I die for speaking the language of the angels.

I can fluently speak five languages: English, emoji, sexting, sarcasm and sass.

You cannot use butterfly language to communicate with caterpillars

I was wondering why I was put in prison for working in an African language when I had not been put in prison for working in English. So really, in prison I started thinking more seriously about the relation between language and power.

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.

Language, that most human invention, can enable what, in principle, should not be possible. It can allow all of us, even the congenitally blind, to see with another person’s eyes.

Rincewind could scream for mercy in nineteen languages, and just scream in another forty-four.

Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study of language.

Because of our kinship in suffering, our channels of contact have always been charged with the language of the heart.

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

Music begins where the possibilities of language end.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.