Language Quotes - Page 4

Life is too short to learn German

One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.

Even if you don't understand the language, you can still love the music.

Music is all about transporting people, speaking a language which languages fail to express.

...language is never innocent.

As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, language is just no damn good—I use it because I have to, but I don’t put any trust in it. We never understand each other.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

One of the benefits of being a mature well-educated woman is that you're not afraid of expletives. And you have no fear to put a fool in his place. That's the power of language and experience. You can learn a lot from Shakespeare.

For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.

People tend to criticize their spouse most loudly in the area where they themselves have the deepest emotional need.

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.

I no longer have a borrowed soul. I no longer have borrowed thoughts or ideas. I no longer speak in a borrowed language.

Astrology is a language. If you understand this language, the sky speaks to you.

Do you know what a foreign accent is? It's a sign of bravery.

A new language requires a new technique. If what you're saying doesn't require a new language, then what you're saying probably isn't new.

Englishmen must learn to be Brahmins, not banias.

When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.

In the language of an actor, to know is synonymous with to feel

God gave humans language so they could conceal their thoughts from one another.

I believe the United States should allow all foreigners in this country, provided they can speak our native language... Apache.

That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted.

The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.

If I have to do something, I feel I should do it perfectly, and ofcourse, Hindi language is a problem.

Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another.

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