Language Quotes
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 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 Quiet talk is the language of love. It is the language of peace. It is the language of God.
Gordon B. HinckleyGordon B. Hinckley I wanted Americans to understand that words matter—that the hateful language they heard coming from their TVs did not reflect the true spirit of our country and that we could vote against it.
Michelle ObamaMichelle Obama Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech.
Roland BarthesRoland Barthes Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
Noam ChomskyNoam Chomsky Thus, while I thought myself employed only in forming a Nomenclature, and while I proposed to myself nothing more than to improve the chemical language, my work transformed itself by degrees, without my being able to prevent it, into a treatise upon the Elements of Chemistry.
Antoine LavoisierAntoine Lavoisier I guess we all understand the love language fine; but maybe truth is we’re just too fluent in goodbyes.
Odd KenOdd Ken The dictionary is based on the hypothesis — obviously an unproven one — that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
Jorge Luis BorgesJorge Luis Borges I’m learning Cuban. It’s like Spanish, but with fewer words for luxury items.
Emo PhilipsEmo Philips The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
Alan KayAlan Kay I knew that I would speak in the language of the vanquished No more durable than old customs, family rituals, Christmas tinsel, and once a year the hilarity of carols.
Czeslaw MiloszCzeslaw Milosz