Never 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 BaudrillardI wonder what language truck drivers are using,
now that everyone is using theirs?
Beryl PfizerNo one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
Sam RayburnLanguage tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms
Penelope LivelyA vain, idle and sinful game at which there was much of the language of the accursed going on [on tennis]
James HoggMan acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
Martin HeideggerIn language, the ignorant have prescribed laws to the learned. (Maxims, 1830)
Richard DuppaA scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
William HazlittSaddam Hussein also challenged President Bush to a debate. The Butcher of Baghdad vs. the Butcher of the English language.
Jay LenoGreat literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
Ezra PoundIf 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 MorrisThe lapse of ages changes all things - time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing 'about, around, and underneath' man, except man himself.
Lord ByronThe eyes have one language everywhere.
George HerbertMy first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
Al PacinoNo language is rude that can boast polite writers.
Aubrey BeardsleyI 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.
Anthony ComstockA common language is the most obvious binding element in any society.
Michael HowardI do not mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I do not understand.
Sir Edward Appleton Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.
Jimmy BreslinThere 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 CanettiAccuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth
Anna Brownell JamesonParents 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 MartinI do swear a lot, but the advantage is that having played abroad, I can choose a different language from the referee's.
Jurgen KlinsmannDreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language
Gail GodwinOur 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 BackusLanguage... 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 TillichBad language is the only thing we have in common with the Osbournes.
Francis Fulford'Two peoples separated by a common language' - About the Americans and English
George Bernard ShawBy and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
George CarlinIt is not enough for language to have clarity and content: it must also have a goal and an imperative.
Rene DaumalHe attempts to use language which he does not know
PersiusSlang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
Carl SandburgTo 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 PelikanOur 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 TillichI 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 ChanelEvery legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.
James BaldwinFrench is the language that turns dirt into romance.
Stephen KingMoney speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
Aphra BehnGreat art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.
Marshall McLuhanOne who in a crisis forgets nautical language and shouts: 'For God's sake turn left!' [on coarse sailing]
Michael GreenOn 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
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
Simone Weil
The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words
Hippocrates
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
Dale Carnegie
Science 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 Ballard
I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
Lily Tomlin
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
Language is the dress of thought.
Samuel Johnson
On Sylvester Stallone: 'You have this preconceived notion of him as a big, tough guy, but he speaks four languages and he likes to watercolor.'
Rachael Leigh Cook
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