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 MorrisSummer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Henry JamesIf you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
Nelson MandelaOn 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.'
Ben AffleckLanguage tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms
Penelope LivelyThe limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Ludwig WittgensteinParents 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 MartinDance is the hidden language of the soul.
Martha GrahamBut 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 JohnsonIt is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
Thomas HardyGreat literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
Ezra PoundOur 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 BackusViewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.
Walt WhitmanSpeaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.
Jimmy BreslinI love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.
Coco ChanelMoney speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
Aphra BehnIf the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless.
John HumeTwo nations divided by a common language.
Winston ChurchillScience and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.
J G BallardA vain, idle and sinful game at which there was much of the language of the accursed going on [on tennis]
James HoggI 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 ColeGood writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
Ezra PoundLanguage is the dress of thought.
Samuel JohnsonTwo million dollars gate at one fight! That's some cabbage in any man's language.
Wilfrid DiamondI don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
Edward AppletonA special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
Gaston BachelardSemantics, 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 JakobsonA mind enclosed in language is in prison.
Simone WeilWhere nature's end of language is declined,
And men talk only to conceal the mind
Edward YoungIt is not enough for language to have clarity and content: it must also have a goal and an imperative.
Rene DaumalNever 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 BaudrillardA language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.
Joseph BrodskyOur language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It 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.
Paul TillichMan acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
Martin HeideggerHe attempts to use language which he does not know
PersiusThere is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.
Elias CanettiEvery quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language
Samuel JohnsonWhen I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language
James Earl JonesOn 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
Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.
Marshall McLuhan
Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language
Gail Godwin
The eyes have one language everywhere.
George Herbert
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.
Paul Goodman
Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.
George Orwell
One who in a crisis forgets nautical language and shouts: 'For God's sake turn left!' [on coarse sailing]
Michael Green
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
Larry Wall
Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in moulding life than nationalism or a common language.
Hilaire Belloc
We 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 Roux
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
No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
Sam Rayburn
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