Language Quotes - Page 24

A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens.

Working with language is a means by which we can identify the bullshit within ourselves (and others).

It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.

It`s one thing for Hillary Clinton to adopt some anti-Wall Street language to try to appeal to progressives.

No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality.

Every man prays in his own language.

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below

The formation of different languages and of distinct species and the proofs that both have been developed through a gradual process, are curiously parallel.

Language exists to communicate whatever it can communicate. Some things it communicates so badly that we never attempt to communicate them by words if any other medium is available.

Life is a language in which certain truths are conveyed to us; if we could learn them in some other way, we should not live.

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

I certainly don't walk around my home or being with my family and just using profane language all the time, but on stage, it's a constant.

I like to call someone a raving c**t every now and then, when it’s appropriate, for effect (...) ‘You cocksucker.’ I love that kind of language.

Only where there is language is there world.

My plays have been translated into all of the official languages of South Africa except Afrikaans.

There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.

Command of English, spoken or written, ranks at the top in business. Our main product is words, so a knowledge of their meaning and spelling and pronunciation is imperative. If a man knows the language well, he can find out about all else.

Samskrit is the unsurpassed zenith in the whole development of languages yet known to us.

English is a really wonderful language and I urge you all to investigate it

As a poet, there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language from corruption.

I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet.

Learning to read in one language helps us read a second language.

A mind enclosed in language is in prison.

I actually don't understand a word Paula's saying anymore. It's like a new language.

The music takes over the words and makes them speak to me in another language.