Language Quotes
Good music is very close to primitive language.
Denis DiderotDenis Diderot I may speak many languages, but there remains one in which I live.
Maurice Merleau PontyMaurice Merleau Ponty f you aspire to be a leader of your own country, you must speak your own language, for God’s sake.
Vladimir PutinVladimir Putin As for rosemary, I let it run all over my garden walls, not only because my bees love it but because it is the herb sacred to remembrance and to friendship, whence a sprig of it hath a dumb language.
Thomas MoreThomas More The artist must say it without saying it.
Duke EllingtonDuke Ellington Poetry has never been the language of barriers, it’s always been the language of bridges.
Amanda GormanAmanda Gorman 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.
Jack LondonJack London We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
Toni MorrisonToni Morrison I speak two languages, Body and English.
Mae WestMae West Everyone smiles in the same language.
George CarlinGeorge Carlin In the interstices of language lie powerful secrets of the culture.
Adrienne RichAdrienne Rich Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things. But to use and apply that language, we must be able fully to appreciate, to feel, to seize the unseen, the unconscious.
Ada LovelaceAda Lovelace There are two languages that I love: Farsi and Panjabi. Because the depth of Sufi thought in these two languages cannot be found in any other language.
Nusrat Fateh Ali KhanNusrat Fateh Ali Khan I strip. In low light. In the silence of my room. I strip like an act of confession. Unclothing my meticulous mind and teasing language from the vestry of my soul.
Gemma IversenGemma Iversen Language forms a kind of wealth, which all can make use of at once without causing any diminution of the store, and which thus admits a complete community of enjoyment; for all, freely participating in the general treasure, unconsciously aid in its preservation.
Auguste ComteAuguste Comte Having an international voice is not really about whether we speak Persian or any other language.
Abbas KiarostamiAbbas Kiarostami