Language Quotes - Page 43

The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury.

Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks he can talk about language.

When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.

The language of sin was universal, the original Esperanto.

For economic safety for the future, you must have multiple skills and languages. Success is basically being the best that you can be.

A lot of innovation in language comes from poetry.

The game asks that you work to improve, that you put something into it, and that you also give something back to it. The game is universal. It is a language that unites all of us.

Language is a finding place, not a hiding place.

We photographers are poets in the language of symbols.

My culture and my language have the right to exist, and no one has the authority to dismiss that.

I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.

Lenin could listen so intently that he exhausted the speaker.

To me the Yiddish language and the conduct of those who spoke it are identical.

If you can describe clearly without a diagram the proper way of making this or that knot, then you are a master of the English language.

No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead.

Put your trust in god are the most dangerous words in the English language.

Bunny boiler is now part of our language, and I'm proud of that.

Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners.

A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.

[Political] prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house.

Correct English is the slang of prigs.

Better than chanting a thousand words in a dead language is one soothing word spoken in the vernacular.

Recent research has indicated that the average individual listens for only seventeen seconds before interrupting and interjecting his own ideas.

The state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies-and whatever it has, it has stolen.

I have seen how effective language attached to policies that are mainstream and delivered by people who are passionate and effective can change the course of history.