Language Quotes - Page 7

Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage.

Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public.

You can't see other people's point of view when you have only one language.

There was no language barrier when it came to kids, and when it came to play.

Photography is a universal language, transcending the boundaries of race, politics, and nationality.

Well, I like how people talk. I like language. You know, Linda Richman spoke in Yiddish.

It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning.

Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.

We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.

If you don’t have at least a working knowledge of the Hawaiian language… you can’t chant well. You cannot… receive the images of poetry paints for you. It’s like having peas and no pod.

Two monologues do not make a dialogue.

Where shall we look for standard English, but to the words of a standard man?

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action.

Horses are our silent partners. When we learn their language. This partnership grows strong.

The shorter and the plainer the better.

The world's most famous and popular language is music.

Remember that one who forgets the language of gratitude can never be on speaking terms with happiness.

And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.

Words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.

Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.

There is your audience. There is the language. There are the words that they use.

They took away our land, our language, and our religion; but they could never harness our tongues.

I seek a form of language which will express my ideas for our time.

The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a tapestry.

More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English language than any other single factor.