Language Quotes - Page 83

I claim to have been a lifelong and wholly disinterested friend of the British people.

Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways.

We Hindus and Mohamedans would have to blame our folly rather than the English, if we allowed them to put us asunder.

The canker has so eaten into the society that in many cases the only meaning of education is a knowledge of English.

Again and Again, however, we know the language of love, and the little churchyard with its lamenting names and the staggeringly secret abyss in which others find their end: again and again the two of us go out under the ancient trees, make our bed again and again between the flowers, face to face with the skies

He cared for languages dead long enough that they wouldn’t change on him.

He left Chainsaw behind, much to her irritation. Ronan didn't want her to learn any bad language.

If only. The saddest two words in any language.

I love language. It doesn't bother me that its effects are partial. To me that is very sanity-producing. It would be weird if the effects of language were more than partial, if your whole life existed within your texts. That would be much scarier to me than language being an inadequate tool to represent.

Because I am a storyteller I live by words. Perhaps music is a purer art form. It may be that when we communicate with life on another planet, it will be through music, not through language or words.

Like and equal are two entirely different things.

Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.

When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time slowly evolved.

A propositional sign, applied and thought out, is a thought. A thought is a proposition with a sense.

We must plow through the whole of language.

Where our language suggests a body and there is none: there, we should like to say, is a spirit.

Music is my natural language. I have always had a form of dyslexia. I never studied music formally, so emotions come directly from the source into song mode. As a composer, it may be fortuitous. What I feel is what you get.

I think American is very democratic in allowing different hues of language and parts of speech to commingle. William Logan once wrote that I had something of a fetish for what he called "Haute Couture Vulgarity."

We tried to make it more than just a cartoon. It was a cartoon, but we tried to make it more than it was to begin with. And I have 300,000 followers from Turkey, Romania, Poland, and places over there that love Life With Louie, where it was translated into their language. They love it. They are absolutely in love with it. And it just goes to show you: no matter where you go, it's always about family.

Everyone knows the idea of moving to another country is really hard, but when you're actually in the situation - and you don't know the language and you don't know anyone - it's like you don't even know what questions to ask.

[Armenian] is a rich language, however, and would amply repay any one the trouble of learning it.

Well, language seems to be something that obsesses me. I'm always writing about it.

I find righteous denunciations of the present state of the language no less dismaying than the present state of the language.

If French is no longer the language of a power, it can be the language of a counter power.

I loved languages, and loved learning languages. It was fantastic. But I was alone there. I remember that time as a real Virginia Woolf time. More than any language it was her language that influenced me.