I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.
Quentin Tarantino

Good music is very close to primitive language.
Denis Diderot

Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction.
Gregory Bateson

History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.
Theodor Adorno

Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Henry James

You know, you can make a small mistake in language or etiquette in Britain, or you could when I was younger, and really be made to feel it, and it's the flick of a lash, but it would sting, and especially at school where there's not much privacy, and so on. You could, yes, undoubtedly be made to feel crushed.
Christopher Hitchens

Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.
Theodor Adorno

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.
Marilyn vos Savant

Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
Ben Jonson

It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language.
David Chalmers

Music is a language, you see, a universal language.
Sun Ra

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
Thomas Carlyle

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
Carl Sandburg

The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
Carl Sandburg

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

A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.
Diane Ackerman

Language changes very fast.
John M. Smith

No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.
Jacques Derrida

In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed it.
Jacques Derrida

As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scen.
Jacques Derrida