Language Quotes - Page 31

It was Ronald Reagan who used to say that the 10 most frightening words in the English language are, "I'm from the federal government, and I'm here to help."

And this I have learned grown-ups do not know the language of shadows.

For every language that becomes extinct, an image of man disappears.

A man who can speak two languages is worth two men.

The painting cannot be laid aside even for a day; for it takes constant work to keep 'flowing,' but above that it takes concentration, which in our language is consecration.

The basic agreement between human beings, indeed what makes them human and makes them social, is language.

Language is the house of the truth of Being.

whenever the literary german dives into a sentence, this is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth.

I don't believe there is anything in the whole earth that you can't learn in Berlin except the German language.

The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.

In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language.

I speak two languages, Body and English.

If only…the saddest words in the English language.

Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such.

You can't show me a sentence, word, or phoneme that is meaningless; by its nature, language is packed with meaning and emotion.

Nature is the common, universal language, understood by all.

So women are at the beginning of building a language, and not all women are conscious of it.

A speaker is like a lousy auto mechanic: Every time he fixes something in the language, he screws up something else.

The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

We live in our language like blind men walking on the edge of an abyss. This language is laden with future catastrophes. The day will come when it will turn against those who speak it.

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

Listen to your life. Listen to what happens to you because it is through what happens to you that God speaks...It's in language that's not always easy to decipher, but it's there powerfully, memorably, unforgettably.

One way to prevent conversation from being boring is to say the wrong thing.