Language Quotes - Page 8

Sign language is the noblest gift God has given to deaf people.

When a person has an accent, it means he can speak one more language than you

To say a grid is limiting is to say that language is limiting, or typography is limiting. It is up to us to use these media critically or passively.

Sunday, the day for the language of leisure.

Research shows that those kids who text frequently are more likely to be the most literate and the best spellers, because you have to know how to manipulate language.

Every drop of human blood contains a history book written in the language of our genes.

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.

There are no two words in the English language more harmful than good job.

My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.

As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue.

Language forces us to perceive the world as man presents it to us.

The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language.

A translation can never equal the original; it can approach it, and its quality can only be judged as to accuracy by how close it gets.

The human language, as precise as it is with its thousands of words, can still be so wonderfully vague.

Pictures rule, but words define, explain, express, direct, and hold together our thoughts and what we know.

Money can be more of a barrier between people than language or race or religion.

This is what language does: organize the world into manageable, and in some sense artificial, units that can then be inhabited and manipulated.

It is time for dead languages to keep quiet.

Like the weaver, the writer works on the wrong side of his material. He has only to do with the language, and it is thus that he suddenly finds himself surrounded by sense.

Gone. The saddest word in the language. In any language.

Language is the only thing worth knowing even poorly.

Art is an international language, understood by all.

We must learn to speak the language women speak when there is no one there to correct us.

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.

Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is constantly changing, constantly being renewed.