Language Quotes
Nature is written in mathematical language.
Galileo GalileiGalileo Galilei One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.
James JoyceJames Joyce Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.
Duke EllingtonDuke Ellington I have a few minor rules for myself but I break them all the time. For example, when translating from Romance languages to English, there is often a choice between a Latinate cognate and a Germanic equivalent.
Adam MorrisAdam Morris As was his language so was his life.
Language is the only homeland.
Czeslaw MiloszCzeslaw Milosz I’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre Don’t use language instrumentally.
Jordan PetersonJordan Peterson Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, ‘Blah, blah, blah.’ That’s when I get crazy.
Jackie ChanJackie Chan The night is young we can keep talking till morning but lets change to the body language instead.
Ani ShahverdyanAni Shahverdyan Once I spoke the language of the flowers, Once I understand each word the caterpillar said, Once I smiled in secret at the gossip of the starlings.
Shel SilversteinShel Silverstein In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.
Adrienne RichAdrienne Rich Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in.
Charles Caleb ColtonCharles Caleb Colton I am the androgyne, I am the living mind you fail to describe in your dead language the lost noun, the verb surviving only in the infinitive the letters of my name are written under the lids of the newborn child
Adrienne RichAdrienne Rich The idea of justice – even just dreaming of justice – is revolutionary. The language of human rights tends to accept a status quo that is intrinsically unjust – and then tries to make it more accountable.
Arundhati RoyArundhati Roy