Language Quotes

5358 quotes by 3063 authors

I started out with machine code and assembly language. — Charles Petzold
What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind. Music is love itself - it is the purest, most ethereal language… — Carl Maria von Weber
I was 13 when my parents moved to Israel, and I was put in a Scottish mission school. Ninety-nine percent of the children were Israeli...… — Arlie Russell Hochschild
Part of being out there, campaigning, talking to people, is being able to read body language. — Gary Johnson
I could never learn to be totally fluent in any other language. — Max von Sydow
These poor women in academia have to talk this silly language that nobody can understand in order to be accepted, they think. — Gloria Steinem
To direct actors is difficult. To direct actors in another language is more difficult, but directing non-actors in another language is one of the craziest… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
All the teaching I had ever received had failed to make me apply such intelligence as I was possessed of, directly and vividly: there had… — Edward Frederic Benson
Movements such as the Pan-Germanic, Pan-Islamic, or Pan-Negro justify themselves on the basis of their common language, or their common religion, or their color. But… — Leon Bourgeois
People who work in specialized fields seem to have their own language. Practitioners develop a shorthand to communicate among themselves. The jargon can almost sound… — Barry Ritholtz
UKIP trades in the language of fear and division; it seeks power in order to reject responsibility. — Robert Webb
Danish is a different language, even though Danish people understand Swedes, and very few Swedes understand Danish. — Joel Kinnaman
I have been writing fairy tales for as long as I can remember. Not much has changed in terms of my natural attraction to the… — Kate Bernheimer
I take a real interest in the possibilities of teaching - including the practice of bringing creative writing, and serious reading, into the classroom. I… — Michael Cadnum
My hope is for a literature that raises the language above the ordinary, makes words both functional and emotional, and to resonate at the frequency… — Theresa Breslin
I love making up visual works of art in language. I get to be an artist without actually being an artist in that sense. — Siri Hustvedt
When it comes to love, the English language bears no shortage of cliches. — Sarah MacLean
English is not my first language. — Unknown Author
I love the idea of using film language similarly to how musicians use music - combining images and sounds in a way that they create… — Damien Chazelle
When I was in Mexico and started to dream in Spanish, I knew that was a good sign that I was learning the language. It… — Andrea Navedo

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