Language Quotes

Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.
Thomas Bulfinch

Knowledge, Cannot, Literature

Speech happens to not be his language.
Madame de Stael

Speech, Happens

When I started out as a music journalist, at the end of the 1980s, it was generally assumed that we were living through the lamest music era the world would ever see. But those were also the years when hip-hop exploded, beatbox disco soared, indie rock took off, and new wave invented a language of teen angst.
Rob Sheffield

Music, Teen, Rock

To create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language - That's who I am. That's what I am doing. That's my life goal.
Jimmy Wales

Life, Single, Person

My language is a feel-thinking language, feeling and thinking at once, that is why it is a celebration of life, and at once it is a denunciation of everything that is not allowed in life to be real life, it's plenitude.
Eduardo Galeano

Life, Feeling, Real

I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Live, Country, Lose

Between 1910 and 1950 approximately 350 lives of Jesus were published in the English language alone.
John Clayton

Alone, Jesus, Between

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

Music, Political, Fighting

I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language.
Don DeLillo

Beauty, Influence, Felt

One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language.
Don DeLillo

Truth, Integrity, Down

The language of my books has shaped me as a man.
Don DeLillo

Even if you didn't see the movie, you'd see two words you'd never seen put together before - comedy and Muslim. Comedy is friendly - it's the least offensive word in our language.
Albert Brooks

Friendly, Words, Together

Records have never really been my strong suit. I've always been a much better live act. I didn't understand the language of the studio. You sing differently in a studio. The language, the craft - it's just a whole different deal. I avoided the problem on my first record by doing a live album.
Jewel

Strong, Live, Different

Even though I have spent literally years of my life trying to learn another language, any other language - and even though I have in the past claimed in several key professional contexts that I speak other languages - I am in fact still trapped inside the bubble of English.
Lev Grossman

Life, Past, Trying

One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
John Berger

Home, Human, Cannot

I believe that laughter is a language of God and that we can all live happily ever laughter.
Yakov Smirnoff

God, Live, Laughter

As the mother teaches her children how to express themselves in their language, so one Gypsy musician teaches the other. They have never shown any need for notation.
Franz Liszt

Mother, Children, Her

When I was a college student and I got interested in linguistics the concern among students was, this is a lot of fun, but after we have done a structural analysis of every language in the world what's left? It was assumed there were basically no puzzles.
Noam Chomsky

Fun, Done, After

Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective.
Kenneth L. Pike

Universe, Rules, Behavior

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

Heart, Same, Speaks

The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.
Thomas B. Macaulay

Beauty, Power, Alone

My French is still good. That's a beautiful language and I'm happy to speak it.
Famke Janssen

Good, Beautiful, Happy

I've been looking at companies that are on a positive path vs. a negative path and I've come to use the language of sports, winning streaks and losing streaks.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Positive, Sports, Winning

It's always been easy with Mark, he's a rock fan and we speak the same language. He's a big Beatles fan too. We worked a lot via CLI calls, though only meeting up once every couple of months.
Phil Collins

Rock, Same, Big

On the day of the show, I sit down with someone that speaks very good English and someone who speaks the local language very well and work out what I'm going to say.
Phil Collins

Work, Good, Someone

We probably, as primitive people, made music before we actually had a language, and that's where language comes from.
Debbie Harry

Music, Before, Actually

Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language.
Kenneth L. Pike

Nature, Truth, Structure

Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation.
Kenneth L. Pike

Situation, Degree, Tool

If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning.
Kenneth L. Pike

Meaning, Behavior, Affect

First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used before that had never been used in the English language before. It's astonishing. It pours out of him.
Stephen Greenblatt

Words, Him, Before

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