Quotes about language
language faster evolve
Terence McKenna We cannot evolve faster than our language. The edge of being is the edge of meaning, and somehow we have to push the edge of meaning. We have to extend it.
language relation new-words
Ralph Waldo Emerson Every word was once a poem. Every new relation is a new word.
language speak translate
Ralph Waldo Emerson Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.
language music-is universal-language
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Music is a universal language.
language music-is universal-language
L. Ron Hubbard Music is indeed the Universal Language.
language affection splendid
Lewis Thomas We are spectacular splendid manifestations of life. We have language. We have affection. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music.
language creation
Lawrence Ferlinghetti Invent a new language anyone can understand.
language
Sid Caesar Every language has its own music.
language ifs
Lionel Jospin If French is no longer the language of a power, it can be the language of a counter power.
language states righteous
Lionel Trilling I find righteous denunciations of the present state of the language no less dismaying than the present state of the language.
language speak foreign-language
Lil Wayne I speak the truth but I guess that's a foreign language to ya'll!
language lit poetry-is
Peter Porter Poetry is either language lit up by life or life lit up by language
language planets
Kenneth Burke Words are like planets, each with its own gravitational pull.
language
Terry Tempest Williams Word by word, the language of women so often begins with a whisper.
language photograph ifs
Lewis Hine If you can take photographs with language, I'm taking one right now.
language-and-power language needed
Leon Wieseltier There are times when the power of language is not the power that is needed.
language paradox knows
Joyce Carol Oates Paradox: how do we know what we have failed to see because we have no language to express it, thus we cannot know that we have failed to see it.
language source
Karl Kraus Let language be the divining rod that finds the sources of thought.
language
Kathy Acker Life doesn't exist inside language: too bad for me.
language mankind humans
Madeleine L'Engle If our language is watered down, then mankind becomes less human, and less free...
language speak bergman
John Gielgud Ingrid Bergman speaks five languages and can’t act in any of them.
language difficult knows
Jonathan Ames Oh, God, I don't know what's more difficult, life or the English language.
language protection natural
James Lipton Our language, one of our most precious natural resources, deserves at least as much protection as our woodlands, streams and whooping cranes.
language form jew
Emma Lazarus Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt.
language enough
John Dewey The bare fact that language consists of sounds which are mutually intelligible is enough of itself to show that its meaning depends upon connection with a shared experience.
language rich trouble
Lord Byron [Armenian] is a rich language, however, and would amply repay any one the trouble of learning it.
language speak armenians
Lord Byron Armenian is the language to speak with God.
language speak company
Lord Chesterfield Speak the language of the company you are in; speak it purely, and unlarded with any other.
language brahmins english-language
Mahatma Gandhi Englishmen must learn to be Brahmins, not banias.
language foreign-language ifs
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own.
language limits mean
Ludwig Wittgenstein The limits of my language mean the limits of my world
language limits words
Ludwig Wittgenstein The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.