I do not mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I do not understand.
Sir Edward Appleton 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 MorrisEven if people are suspicious of the motives I think that learning and speaking two languages can only be a good thing for people.
Stephen HarperLanguage has not the power to speak what love indites: The soul lies buried in the ink that writes
John ClareWhen one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
John DonneAt the end of the day, flirting is a pretty universal language. Americans are more direct. British people are more indirect about everything
Rachel WeiszNever resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.
Jean BaudrillardWe call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
Joseph RouxBut if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
George OrwellA scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
William HazlittI do swear a lot, but the advantage is that having played abroad, I can choose a different language from the referee's.
Jurgen KlinsmannSnogging is the universal language of the world
Mark FeehilyIf the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless.
John HumeFrench is the language that turns dirt into romance.
Stephen KingComedy is something that we can all share, no matter what language we speak or our background, it has the power to unite us all.
Paul GoodmanNo one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
Sam RayburnAn animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.
Martin BuberPhilosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
Ludwig WittgensteinEvery quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language
Samuel JohnsonThe chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words
HippocratesLanguage is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.
Humphrey DavyTwo nations divided by a common language.
Winston ChurchillThe 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 ZappaI wonder what language truck drivers are using,
now that everyone is using theirs?
Beryl PfizerNothing knits man to man, the Manchester School wisely taught, like the frequent passage from hand to hand of cash (The Language of Art)
Walter SickertParents 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 MartinDreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language
Gail GodwinThe quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.
J Michael StraczynskiA special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
Gaston BachelardThe 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 HeisenbergTwo million dollars gate at one fight! That's some cabbage in any man's language.
Wilfrid DiamondDance is the hidden language of the soul.
Martha GrahamA language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.
Joseph BrodskySaddam Hussein also challenged President Bush to a debate. The Butcher of Baghdad vs. the Butcher of the English language.
Jay LenoPoetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.
T S EliotSpeaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.
Jimmy BreslinHe attempts to use language which he does not know
PersiusTo 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 PelikanA common language is the most obvious binding element in any society.
Michael HowardFEAR is an acronym in the English language for 'False Evidence Appearing Real'
Neale WalschSummer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Henry JamesBut here's old Ken - he's been crass, he's been insensitive and thuggish and brutal in his language - but I don't think actually if you read what he said, although it was extraordinary and rude, I don't think he was actually anti-Semitic.
Boris JohnsonBad language is the only thing we have in common with the Osbournes.
Francis FulfordOur thirty year old belief that there is only one kind of computer is the basis for our belief that there is only one kind of programming language.
John BackusSemantics, 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 JakobsonI personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
Lily Tomlin[on understanding] The definition is this: to understand something is to know what it means, to know what its significance is. To understand a sentence is to know what it means, to understand a language is to know what its words and sentences mean, to understand a phenomenon more generally is to know its significance.
Tim CranePolitical chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.
George OrwellIn language, the ignorant have prescribed laws to the learned. (Maxims, 1830)
Richard DuppaOn his own history with mathematics, and connection with John Nash:
'I had a bit of a hiccup in the third year of high school. The school I was at hired a non-English speaking Hungarian who was a professional of some great standing in Eastern Europe. But he hadn't learned the English language yet. He probably is a great asset to the teaching staff now, but we were his first class. That was when mathematics and I parted ways.
'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
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