Language Quotes - Page 33

We must be capable of speaking a language of peace, but not one of surrender.

[Allegory] is a flight by which the human wit attempts at one and the same time to investigate two objects, and consequently is fitted only to the most exalted geniuses.

Words fail, there are times when even they fail.

The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth

I'm no linguist, but I have been told that in the Russian language, there isn't even a word for freedom.

Change is legitimate and inevitable, for our language is a mighty river, picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there, but growing ever wider and richer.

Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.

The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.

Love can be understood only "from the inside," as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it.

Typography at its best is a visual form of language linking timelessness and time.

Its very variety, subtlety, and utterly irrational, idiomatic complexity makes it possible to say things in English which simply cannot be said in any other language.

Why would you have a language that is not theoretically exciting? Because it's very useful.

The Christian faith is mysterious to the core. It is about things and beings that ultimately can't be put into words. Language fails. And if we do definitively put God into words, we have at that very moment made God something God is not.

Body language is more powerful than words.

Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.

Mathematics is the language in which the gods talk to people.

One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand

It's perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific. The theory of that genetic component, whatever it turns out to be, is what is called universal grammar.

Language etches the grooves through which your thoughts must flow.

I have never designed a language for its own sake.

Out of 1.6 billion Muslims, perhaps only 300 million actually understand the language of the Koran.

What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. The ability to have somebody read something and see it, or for somebody to paint an entire landscape of visual imagery with just sheets of words - that's magical.

There's a reason prophets perform miracles; language lacks the power to describe faith.

If my words fail, let my eyes and my heart be my language.

I see tendencies, I see body language.