Language Quotes

Sometimes I am a different character in different languages. I have different enjoyment from them. Sometimes different answers come out of me. Like, I didnt even know that about me. I get to know myself through different languages, actually.

Often times the language is different; by which I mean, I love her, and it’s the only stammer I’ve ever known.

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.

Poetry and language are often at the heartbeat of movements for change.

Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.

And certainly, we have come far enough in our technology that our language can evolve, because it has an impact.

Let us eat, drink, and love for tomorrow we die, would be in fact the language of reason, the morality of life; and who but a fool would part with a reality for a fleeting shadow?

The whole notion of sanity may be an attempt to medicalize morality – to speak of the good in the language of health: to make us more accurate, more scientific in our wanting – but by the same token it becomes a form of moral blackmail.

Love was learning to read your vulnerability like a foreign language.