Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.
Alan Moore

I get along with all the women singers, but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly language.
Loretta Lynn

In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!
Ivan Turgenev

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.
Elizabeth Bowen

Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.
Elizabeth Bowen

We inhabit a language rather than a country.
Emile M. Cioran

One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.
Emile M. Cioran

Make it, not make it? What's the difference? Music is a language, it's a dance of life, and it can be a part of your life without being something that earns.
Tina Weymouth

I don't see it in terms of changing things, but rather using language and music as weapons for fighting a mainstream media which is predominately right wing, and loyal to the political framework and its corporate interests.
Thom Yorke

I think maybe since there isn't a great deal of access to the mainstream media and people don't understand the language of mainstream media, if you put music out there with lyrics that are loosely political, people absorb some of it and spit it back out.
Thom Yorke

Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is.
Jose Saramago

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.
Alfred North Whitehead

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
Alfred North Whitehead

Speech happens to not be his language.
Madame de Stael

The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the glow of its life.
Karl Jaspers

I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.
Frantz Fanon

An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.
Thomas Mann

I want a language that speaks the truth.
Studs Terkel

The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.
Hans-Georg Gadamer

The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it.
Hans-Georg Gadamer