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An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.
View quotes by Martin Buber

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
View quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein

Where nature's end of language is declined,
And men talk only to conceal the mind
View quotes by Edward Young

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
View quotes by John Donne

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
View quotes by Aphra Behn

The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.
View quotes by J Michael Straczynski

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
View quotes by Larry Wall

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
View quotes by Ezra Pound

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it (Thunder on the Left)
View quotes by Christopher Morley

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
View quotes by William Hazlitt

A vain, idle and sinful game at which there was much of the language of the accursed going on [on tennis]
View quotes by James Hogg

Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.
View quotes by T S Eliot

I do swear a lot, but the advantage is that having played abroad, I can choose a different language from the referee's.
View quotes by Jurgen Klinsmann

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

Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.
View quotes by Humphrey Davy

In language, the ignorant have prescribed laws to the learned. (Maxims, 1830)
View quotes by Richard Duppa

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words
View quotes by Hippocrates

On contract clauses: 'There's all this language where you can't jump out of a plane or ride motorcycles. You have to go home and just sit there.'
View quotes by Ben Affleck

I believe that there is a devil. Those who disagree with me in this may translate my language. All I ask is that they admit the vital truth on which I insist.
View quotes by Anthony Comstock

Comedy is something that we can all share, no matter what language we speak or our background, it has the power to unite us all.
View quotes by Paul Goodman

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