It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs

Body language is more powerful than words.

An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.

Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.

It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are disguised by sobriety

In the modern languages there was not, six hundred years ago, a single volume which is now read. The library of our profound scholar must have consisted entirely of Latin books

Language is the machine of the poet

It is, I believe, no exaggeration to say that all the historical information which has been collected from all the books written in the Sanskrit language is less valuable than what may be found in the most paltry abridgement used at preparatory schools in England

The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.

Music goes further than any border, any language.

Oh, these cursed phrases, these lies of language, under which people with meat in their bellies and whole shirts on their backs shelter themselves, and evade the responsibility of their brothers and sisters, empty of belly and without whole shirts on their backs.

You forget how I talked when you first met me. I have learned a new language since then. Before that time I talked as that girl talks. Now I can manage to make myself understood sufficiently in your language to explain that you do not know that other girl’s language.

This is the first time I have heard ‘ethics’ in the mouth of a man. You and I are the only men on this ship that know its meaning. At one time in my life, I dreamed that I might someday talk with men who used such language, that I might lift myself out of the place in life in which I had been born, and hold conversation and mingle with men who talked about just such things as ethics.

Dreams say what they mean, but they don’t say it in daytime language.

“Language makes the uncommon common. It can never create experience of something we do not know – only release something in us that is already there.”

So thinking is prior to language. What language contributes is to firm up certain particular ways of seeing the world and give fixity to them. This has its good side, and its bad. It aids consistency of reference over time and space. But it can also exert a restrictive force on what and how we think. It represents a more fixed version of the world: it shapes, rather than grounds, our thinking.

There were not words enough in the English language, nor in any language, to make his attitude and conduct intelligible to them.

No; I did not hate him. The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings. I can say only that I knew the gnawing of a desire for vengeance on him that was a pain in itself and that exceeded all the bounds of language.

I think maybe since there isn’t a great deal of access to the mainstream media and people don’t understand the language of mainstream media, if you put music out there with lyrics that are loosely political, people absorb some of it and spit it back out.

I lived for a year in Scotland. British sign language is very different from American.

I don’t see it in terms of changing things, but rather using language and music as weapons for fighting a mainstream media which is predominately right wing, and loyal to the political framework and its corporate interests

The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.

I remember people saying that Atletico wanted me, that they are a big team, and that it will be a big challenge for me. I don’t know why, but I just felt really prepared for it, really confident. I went there and tried to do my best in training as well as learn the language really quickly. That was important, I think

Atletico was a real group of friends. We went out together, and my teammates taught me a language I did not know at all when I arrived. When I left, I cried

My arrival at Porto wasn’t easy and I had some difficulties. I spoke the same language but I felt very lonely. Two months later I caught tuberculosis yet at the time no doctor at Porto knew for sure what was wrong with me. I trained and played with the B team

Theatricality is a concept. It’s not a specific language.

Films, fiction, can encompass a whole global vision on a particular subject with any story, whatever it is. You can play the story in whatever country with whatever language in whatever style you want to tell the story in.

In English, I’m a little bit limited. I speak English as a second language, and that’s a little limitation that I have to work around and I have to use it to my favor. So, yes, that’s why I end up wanting to do more things in Latin America.

It’s difficult to act in a language that’s not your own. It takes a long time to put your head around it and feel confident with it.

I generally won’t give importance to language barriers. If I feel an actor will fit into the role I will approach.

Baseball is a language that transcends borders and unites people from all walks of life

For us Indians, I don’t think English can ever exude that magic of emotions which our mother tongue can.

In a country like India, we don’t want to put everyone in one big mixture. We have a different language, culture and cuisine for each region, even though we are united in the larger context. We are more like a fruit salad, where each ingredient has its own specialty, each fruit its distinct flavor, and together, the salad makes a tasty dish, without losing the individuality of each constituent.

I love singing devotional songs, in whatever language.

Different languages, different food, different customs. That’s our neighborhood: wild and tangled and colorful. Like the best kind of garden.

Art isn’t held with the same high regard as it is after success. In any country, in any language, you’re a loser if you’re making music until you prove otherwise.

I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as ABC, hold up truth to your eyes

That which is now called learning, was not learning originally. Learning does not consist, as the schools now make it consist, in the knowledge of languages, but in the knowledge of things to which language gives names

Language is our most powerful tool and our greatest gift.

Language is a tool for understanding and empathy, and literature is its most powerful expression.

Human language is local and changeable, and is therefore incapable of being used as the means of unchangeable and universal information

The logic of the poet – that is, the logic of language or the experience itself – develops the way a living organism grows: it spreads out towards what it loves, and is heliotropic, like a plant

The notion that anything is gained by fixing a language in a groove is cherished only by pedants.

The whole language of writing for me is finding out what you don’t want to know, what you don’t want to find out. But something forces you to anyway.

The French in particular confuse unadorned direct language with a lack of culture or intellectual elegance

The whole language of writing for me is finding out what you don’t want to know, what you don’t want to find out. But something forces you to anyway.

You might say that Richard Wagner was the Queen Victoria of Europe. He had musical children everywhere.

To be able to speak, listen, and understand the language of love is a greater education than any degree.

He has done more than anyone for the Spanish language since Cervantes.

The duty of the writers is not to preserve the language but to open the way for it in history.

The grammarians burst with anger at our blunders but those of the next century pick them up as genius of the language. So rest assured: there is no lawsuit. See you in the third millennium.

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.

All language is but a poor translation.

In every language, the first word after “Mama!” that every kid learns to say is “Mine!” A system that doesn’t allow ownership, that doesn’t allow you to say “Mine!” when you grow up, has – to put in mildly – a fatal design flaw

Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English

We inhabit a language rather than a country.

Duty is the sublimest work in the English language.

Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.

All translations are made up” opined Vikram, “Languages are different for a reason. You can’t move ideas between them without losing something

Its very variety, subtlety, and utterly irrational, idiomatic complexity makes it possible to say things in English which simply cannot be said in any other language.

Mathematics is not just a language. Mathematics is a language plus reasoning.

Precise language is not the problem. Clear language is the problem.

Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.

The eyes have one language everywhere.

It was a pleasure merely to hear the sound of her voice, with which, like an instrument of many strings, she could pass from one language to another; so that there were few of the barbarian nations that she answered by an interpreter.

Cicero called Aristotle a river of flowing gold, and said of Plato’s Dialogues, that if Jupiter were to speak, it would be in language like theirs.

Swearing is industry language. For as long as we’re alive it’s not going to change. You’ve got to be boisterous to get results.

Synergy is the only word in our language that means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the separately observed behaviors of any of the system’s separate parts or any subassembly of the system’s parts.

I am learning the Language of World and everything in the world is beginning to make sense to me.

If I can learn to understand this language without words, I can learn to understand the world.

Every human being should know two languages: the language of society and the language of signs. One serves to communicate with other people, the other serves to understand God’s messages.

Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

Dreams are the language of God.

The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use.

If you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language.

Nothing which is harmonized by the bond of the Muse can be changed from its own to another language without destroying its sweetness.

At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain.

I can ask for cigarettes in every language.

I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane, and a derby hat. Everything is a contradiction: the pants are baggy, the coat tight, the hat small, and the shoes large.

Industry cannot flourish if labor languishes

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

A riot is the language of the unheard.

What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become.

Everyone smiles in the same language.

It doesn’t matter what the income level of your family is, or if English is the first or second language. It makes no difference. The bottom line is that every child can be an academic champion, an academic champion and a superstar in academics.

I had to know at least two languages.

If 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.

Language is the exact expression of thought and this is only achieved with one’s own language, which does it in a perfect way

I listened to a lot of tapes of British theatre actresses and tried to learn from them. As Americans, we don’t have such a gift with language.

Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos.

We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds

A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.

The nations of our time cannot prevent the conditions of men from becoming equal, but it depends upon themselves whether the principle of equality is to lead them to servitude or freedom, to knowledge or barbarism, to prosperity or wretchedness.

The world is made of language, and if you know the laws that govern language, you can make of it what you will.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor

The Fawn and His Mother A YOUNG FAWN once said to his Mother, “You are larger than a dog, and swifter, and more used to running, and you have your horns as a defense; why, then, O Mother! do the hounds frighten you so?” She smiled, and said: “I know full well, my son, that all you say is true. I have the advantages you mention, but when I hear even the bark of a single dog I feel ready to faint, and fly away as fast as I can.” No arguments will give courage to the coward

The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Wherever I go in America, I like it when the land speaks its own language in its own regional accent.