Language Quotes - Page 44

I am attached to the French language. I will defend the ubiquitous use of French.

those who use the word 'lifestyle' are rarely in possession of either.

Abstraction is an esoteric language.

Language may die at the hands of the schoolman: it is regenerated by the poets

Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt.

There are ideas it will be easy to say in the future that we just don't have the language for now.

To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cannot convey the scale of a view that is so stunning it is felt.

It would, of course, be hopeless to attempt to crowd into an international language all those local overtones of meaning which are so dear to the heart of the nationalist.

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.

We have two hundred languages in Europe. Two hundred languages! Count them! I know you won't!

The laws of biology are written in the language of diversity.

If you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language.

The managerial class has forced on us a public language that makes no sense

Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information.

Maybe then you comprehend, speaking one language only is a prison!

Colour is uncontainable. It effortlessly reveals the limits of language and evades our best attempts to impose a rational order on it To work with colour is to become acutely aware of the insufficiency of language and theory – which is both disturbing and pleasurable.

Language can be very adept at hiding the truth.

I've been in situations like in Tokyo where people sang my song word for word and then when the music stopped, they couldn't speak to me. I've seen the music break the language barrier.

If names are not correct, then language is not in accord with the truth of things. If language is not in accord with the truth of things, then affairs cannot be carried out successfully.

Christopher Hitchens is the greatest living essayist in the English language.

Jazz is the language of the emotions.

It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living.

No language exists that cannot be misused... Every Interpretation is hypothetical, for it is a mere attempt to read an unfamiliar text.

Eternal truth needs a human language that alters with the spirit of the times.

resignation, perhaps the most stifling word in the language.