Language Quote by Frances Mayes

“It's daunting to find the language so foreign, so distant, but also so thrilling. One is absolved of responsibility when the language is incomprehensible.…

— Frances Mayes

In the lives of individuals and societies, language is a factor of greater importance than any other. For the study of language to remain…

— Ferdinand de Saussure

Language should fulfill your individual existence as a wholesome human being... Language should be more than just getting by.

— Chogyam Trungpa

It's the best motivation to have a particular beloved reader in mind! Because you feel this urgency that you really want somebody you care…

— Idra Novey

Language is the key to the heart of people.

— Ahmed Deedat

Language is the light of the mind

— John Stuart Mill

The wonderful thing is, imagination is universal all over the world, no matter what the language is.

— Roy Horn

Language is one component of the human cognitive capacity which happens to be fairly amenable to enquiry. So we know a good deal about…

— Noam Chomsky

Foreign languages was the only thing that interested me when I was at school, so playing in another language... it is quite demanding because…

— Tom Wlaschiha

When you have those two languages - an analytic one like English and a synthetic, very sensual thing like Russian, you get almost a…

— Joseph Brodsky

There's a whole language out there, and one's role as a writer is to stumble around in it.

— Ciaran Carson

My view is that knowing languages is part of the process of becoming a cultured person.

— Kató Lomb