Language Quotes
The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe Love was learning to read your vulnerability like a foreign language.
Holly DuxburyHolly Duxbury Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!
Steve MartinSteve Martin It feels wonderful to be go back to the 1940s and recreate the whole era through my clothes, voice and body language.
Akshay KumarAkshay Kumar Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
Adrienne RichAdrienne Rich Erotic play discloses a nameless world which is revealed by the nocturnal language of lovers. Such language is not written down. It is whispered into the ear at night in a hoarse voice. At dawn it is forgotten.
Jean GenetJean Genet An entire mythology is stored within our language.
Ludwig WittgensteinLudwig Wittgenstein It was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we’d read about it in a manual, translated from another language, and were doing our best with what we could understand.
Aimee BenderAimee Bender I’m not really concerned with what the original version in English was, because the important thing for me is that I received them already translated, and they’ve influenced my original worldview as translations, not as original quotations.
Agustin Fernandez MalloAgustin Fernandez Mallo When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
Patrick HenryPatrick Henry No one gives Cameron Diaz a hard time for not speaking Spanish.
Jessica AlbaJessica Alba There’s a melody in everything. And once you find the melody, then you connect immediately with the heart. Because sometimes English or Spanish, Swahili or any language gets in the way. But nothing penetrates the heart faster than the melody.
Carlos SantanaCarlos Santana We were language’s magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.
Salman RushdieSalman Rushdie It is impossible to disassociate language from science, To call forth a concept, a word is needed.
Antoine LavoisierAntoine Lavoisier I am only beautiful when my legs are open and I have forgotten my mother tongue to make room for yours.
Hinnah MianHinnah Mian