Language Quotes

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I thought it was respectful to each country to sing in their language. — Nana Mouskouri
We are at a time in our country's history that inclusive language is better than exclusive language. — Barack Obama
On the contrary a film can promote the idea of change without any political message whatsoever but in its form and language can tell people… — Wim Wenders
The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense. — Benjamin Franklin
There is no such thing as the Queen's English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the… — Mark Twain
To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost -that is to… — Victor Hugo
Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then abstract. They… — Thomas B. Macaulay
The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside the other world,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say… — Paul de Man
Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be… — Virginia Woolf
The living language is like a cowpath: it is the creation of the cows themselves, who, having created it, follow it or depart from it… — Elwyn Brooks White
We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character. — Henry David Thoreau
The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms. — James F. Cooper
There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear… — Elias Canetti
Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb. — Italo Calvino
If everything is perfect, language is useless. This is true for animals. If animals don't speak, it's because everything's perfect for them. If one day… — Jean Baudrillard
All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the… — Roland Barthes
I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to find a language. Which goes… — Salman Rushdie
Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being because he sometimes speaks. Language is the mark, the… — Octavio Paz

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