Language Quotes - Page 53

The notion that anything is gained by fixing a language in a groove is cherished only by pedants.

Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.

No, she wasn't losing language. She was choking on it.

I grew up with a very quick temper, and the language of violence is a language that I'm very familiar and comfortable with.

Truth speaks best in the language of poetry and symbolism, I think.

The language of the moment or, as it were, the language of the order in which we live, is the image. I felt that if I wanted to commune with the public, I should best do so through the language of image. It's a conscious embrace of a contradiction.

It is nonsense for the Government to allow any loopholes for religious homophobia. Bigotry is bigotry whether it's dressed up in the language of faith or not.

Symbols are the language of something invisible spoken in the visible world.

All language is rhetorical, and even the senses are poets.

The slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.

The English take everything with an exquisite sense of humour. They are only offended if you tell them that they have no sense of humour.

It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.

No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.

Expressing love in the right language. We tend to speak our own love language, to express love to others in a language that would make us feel loved. But if it is not his/her primary love language, it will not mean to them what it would mean to us.

Reason" in language - oh, what an old deceptive female she is! I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar.

I would have thought it possible to choose delegates for these larger conferences who, even if they could not speak the principal languages, could at least understand them or could have friends seated beside them who could keep them informed on essential points.

The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.

Marriage is a language of love, equality, and inclusion.

Language was invented to ask questions.

We inhabit a language rather than a country.

I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad.

When the heart speaks, its language is the same under all latitudes.

Music is the unspoken language that can convey feelings more accurately than talking ever could.

There's something in the German language that makes you feel like you're getting a hug and a backstab at the same time.

I wish that I spoke more languages because I think each language is a window completely.