The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing.
~By Roger Babson ~
Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.
~By Charles Scribner, Jr. ~
I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.
~By Jack Prelutsky ~
Actually, my correspondent's language is better than mine. He can put his sentiment into words.
~By Alfred Day Hershey ~
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.
~By Thom Yorke ~
One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.
~By Naguib Mahfouz ~
I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor.
~By Max von Sydow ~
I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek.
~By Anne Rice ~
As the president of Kosovo, I am more concerned about the current situation with the employment standing at around 70 % of the population, which is young, with great potential, speaking many foreign languages and having wide expertise.
~By Ibrahim Rugova ~
God has stated in clear and concise language how He created the universe and we ought not to doubt His Word.
~By Walter Lang ~
Yet, I am convinced that there is a need for high quality software, and the time will come when it will be recognized that it is worth investing effort in its development and in using a careful, structured approach based on safe, structured languages.
~By Niklaus Wirth ~
I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.
~By Tahar Ben Jelloun ~
In the plays - that's where I go crazy. But my prose has a much lighter touch; it's not trying to thrill with language, just to be more truthful. I'm not concerned with the accuracy of anything. We don't get to the truth of anything with facts.
~By Denis Johnson ~
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.
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
I was very adept at acquiring languages.
~By Anna Held ~
The difference between a contemporary liberal and a socialist is that to a liberal the most beautiful word in the English language is 'forbidden', whereas to a socialist the most beautiful word is 'compulsory'.
~By John McCarthy ~
It's my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.
~By Lily Tomlin ~
My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is generally known, not only in formal logical, mathematical terms, but also intuitively, in images, feelings, poetic usage of language, etc.
~By David Bohm ~
If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.
~By Jean Baudrillard ~
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
~By George Orwell ~
The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.
~By James F. Cooper ~
My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature's laws, these tasks and principles are indifferent to language, culture, gender, or the particular mode of information that is provided.
~By Edward Tufte ~
The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French.
~By Wilfrid Laurier ~
Science is the international language, so when we are able to convince countries that good decision-making for human health and animal health is based upon science, that's a real success story for us.
~By Mike Johanns ~
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.
~By Kenneth L. Pike ~
No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality.
~By Edward Sapir ~
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
~By John Erskine ~
The process of filmmaking is very musical, you get into the rhythm and the rhythmics of how someone is, especially with Woody Allen who is very much into body language and body movement.
~By Charlotte Rampling ~
Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.
~By Johann G. Hamann ~
The day is past when schools could afford to give sufficient time and attention to the teaching of the ancient languages to enable the student to get that enjoyment out of classical literature that made the lives of our grandfathers so rich.
~By James Loeb ~
I said in sharp language that that practice was wrong.
~By Ken Starr ~
Scientific research and other studies have demonstrated that arts education can enhance American students' math and language skills and improve test scores which in turn increase chances of higher education and good jobs in the future.
~By Thad Cochran ~
Yes, living voices in a living language, so it seemed to us.
~By Robert Fitzgerald ~
Sometimes the archaism of the language when it's spoken is why we are all in love with the Irish today.
~By Diane Wakoski ~
No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.
~By Fisher Ames ~
Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche parked outside?
~By Jackson Browne ~
I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.
~By Theodore Bikel ~
There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain.
~By Robert Rauschenberg ~
Words can sometimes be used to confuse, but it's up to the practitioners of the study of language to apply them for good and not for evil. It is just like fire; fire can heat your house or burn it down.
~By Frank Luntz ~
Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's.
~By Martin Lewis Perl ~
I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.
~By Theodore Bikel ~
When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
~By John Donne ~
Well, maybe so, although I don't think I am particularly gifted in languages. In fact, oddly enough, it may have something to do with my being slow at languages.
~By Robert Fitzgerald ~
The heart of the matter seems to me to be the direct interaction between one's making a poem in English and a poem in the language that one understands and values. I don't see how you can do it otherwise.
~By Robert Fitzgerald ~
Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone.
~By Paul Tillich ~
It was pretty awful for us children because we never really knew the local children. Mother was keen for us to learn languages, so our travels took us to France and Italy, as well as the West Country.
~By Mary Wesley ~
I had said no to him and no to him and no to him and no to him and no to him and no to him about his saucy language. It had never gotten to this level until I came back.
~By Andrea Mackris ~
I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc.
~By Diane Wakoski ~
A different language is a different vision of life.
~By Federico Fellini ~
The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise?
~By Hugo Ball ~
And not only that but... when the station is completed, there will be an international crew made of astronauts coming from different cultural experiences, speaking different languages, but working together for a common goal.
~By Umberto Guidoni ~
I start with the story, almost in the old campfire sense, and the story leads to both the characters, which actors should best be cast in this story, and the language. The choice of words, more than anything else, creates the feeling that the story gives off.
~By Donald E. Westlake ~
It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.
~By Robert Morgan ~
Now multitudes of root words are identical in the American languages over vast areas some of them with precisely the same senses, and others with various shades of analogical meaning.
~By John W. Dawson ~
Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.
~By Paul Engle ~
A degree of lying - you know, white lies - seems to be inherent in all languages and all forms of communication.
~By Matthew Lesko ~
It's really difficult for me. Language, I am sorry that I haven't. I think I just always expected that you learn a word in place of a word and when I discovered how difficult the grammar was and learning that was very discouraging for me.
~By Bo Derek ~
French was my first language.
~By Bob Cousy ~
The themes Poe used were universal and timeless. As long as the English language exists at all, we will be able to appreciate what he did. It will not age! It will not become dated!
~By John Astin ~
I didn't choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early age by the culture, the language, the literature and the history to the place.
~By Helen Dunmore ~
We probably, as primitive people, made music before we actually had a language, and that's where language comes from.
~By Debbie Harry ~
We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.
~By Edward Sapir ~
In the GNOME project we tried to keep the platform language independent.
~By Miguel de Icaza ~
I think it is an inborn talent - just luck. Some people can learn languages; some can throw a ball. Most people have something. My talent is drawing and painting.
~By Mike Thompson ~
Singing beautiful melodies is one thing, but to deliver the text so that the people understand it, even in a foreign language, has to be worked at very hard.
~By Maureen Forrester ~
The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.
~By Arthur E. Waite ~
So far as the advocates of a constructed international language are concerned, it is rather to be wondered at how much in common their proposals actually have, both in vocabulary and in general spirit of procedure.
~By Edward Sapir ~
There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others.
~By J. Donald Walters ~
Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.
~By Roland Barthes ~
To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.
~By Joseph Conrad ~
Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.
~By Herbie Hancock ~
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
~By Ezra Pound ~
I grew up speaking both languages, and for me that's really important.
~By Jon Secada ~
The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.
~By Thornton Wilder ~
There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.
~By William Osler ~
I was worried people would laugh at me when I started to talk the language, but they were just pleasantly surprised that I could. The sense of humour here is great - once I could have a giggle, I settled down.
~By Parminder Nagra ~
Second, we also got a more authentic liturgy of the people of God, in the vernacular language.
~By Hans Kung ~
I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet.
~By Tahar Ben Jelloun ~
To have another language is to possess a second soul.
~By Charlemagne ~
Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.
~By Roman Jakobson ~
The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
~By Carl Sandburg ~
I believe that laughter is a language of God and that we can all live happily ever laughter.
~By Yakov Smirnoff ~
We are all members of a single humanity, inside our hearts we all speak the same language, we all love our children and our parents, we all live in the same world.
~By Marc Forne Molne ~
Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering.
~By Jane Rule ~
The Bible was written in several languages, embraces many literary forms, and reflects cultures very different from our own. These are important considerations for properly understanding the Bible in its context.
~By Troy Perry ~
I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative.
~By Irvine Welsh ~
The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
~By Alan Kay ~
If your kids attend school and grades are up that will make $1,000 contributions to some 10,000 kids across the country, are challenging kids to learn foreign languages or challenging kids to get summer jobs or seek summer enrichment opportunities?
~By Harold Ford ~
A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
~By William Hazlitt ~
Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
~By Karl Kraus ~
Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.
~By Cyril Connolly ~
Support for alternate languages will largely depend on the underlying OS.
~By Bill Hayden ~
French is a language that makes those who speak it both calm and dynamic.
~By Bernard Pivot ~
Numbers constitute the only universal language.
~By Nathanael West ~
I lived in England to learn English. When I went to England for the first time, it was like being on the Moon. I had no friends, I couldn't speak the language. I was very isolated.
~By Jean Alesi ~
The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.
~By Victor Hugo ~
Disappointment over nationalistic authoritarian regimes may have contributed to the fact that today religion offers a new and subjectively more convincing language for old political orientations.
~By Jurgen Habermas ~
Certain kinds of speed, flow, intensity, density of attacks, density of interaction... Music that concentrates on those qualities is, I think, easier achieved by free improvisation between people sharing a common attitude, a common language.
~By Evan Parker ~
Once you embody the language, the character comes really naturally, especially when you put the costume on.
~By Lucy Liu ~
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