Quotations
'There's a lot of mathematics in music. It's all in groups of eight, mate, y'know. The one thing that I may have in common with John is that the subject matter I do know, the driving part of my life, my work life, there's a point where structure and scaffolding is left behind and intuition takes over. That's the difference between John and the next 100 mathematicians. He's fully prepared to leave the scaffolding behind and get into the ether of the equation and find the answer quicker. The bane of his existence, however, is finding the proof.'
Russell Crowe
I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and say, 'Hi, how are you?' in their language, they love it. It makes them feel like you're doing it just for them. We in America take so much for granted.
Natalie Cole
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
Ezra Pound
To invoke a Kierkegaardesque figure of speech, the beauty of the language of the Bible can be like a set of dentist's instruments nearly laid out on a table and hanging on a wall, intriguing in their technological complexity and with their stainless steel highly polished--until they set to work on the job for which they were originally designed. Then all of a sudden my reaction changes from 'How shiny and beautiful they all are!' to 'Get that damned thing out of my mouth!'
Jaroslav Pelikan
It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
Thomas Hardy
The eyes have one language everywhere.
George Herbert
Snogging is the universal language of the world
Mark Feehily
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
Gaston Bachelard
Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.
Claude Levi-Strauss
Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.
Jimmy Breslin
Language is the dress of thought.
Samuel Johnson
If the whole of the english language could be condensed into one word, it would not suffice to express the utter contempt those invite who are so deluded as to be disciples of such an imposture as Darwinism.
Francis Morris
By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
George Carlin
The language and concepts contained herein are guaranteed not to cause eternal torment in the place where the guy with the horns and pointed stick conducts his business
Frank Zappa
Even if people are suspicious of the motives I think that learning and speaking two languages can only be a good thing for people.
Stephen Harper
Saddam Hussein also challenged President Bush to a debate. The Butcher of Baghdad vs. the Butcher of the English language.
Jay Leno
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
Ezra Pound
A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.
Joseph Brodsky
The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But we cannot speak about atoms in ordinary language
Werner Heisenberg
Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in moulding life than nationalism or a common language.
Hilaire Belloc
I do swear a lot, but the advantage is that having played abroad, I can choose a different language from the referee's.
Jurgen Klinsmann
Bad language is the only thing we have in common with the Osbournes.
Francis Fulford
Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.
George Orwell
It is not enough for language to have clarity and content: it must also have a goal and an imperative.
Rene Daumal
At the end of the day, flirting is a pretty universal language. Americans are more direct. British people are more indirect about everything
Rachel Weisz
Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children.
Judith Martin
Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study of language.
Roman Jakobson
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