Language Quotes
There’s always a better word than a swear word.
FinneasFinneas I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
Gwendolyn BrooksGwendolyn Brooks I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.
Vera WangVera Wang Only the foolish, blinded by language’s conventions, think of fire as red or gold. Fire is blue at it’s melancholy rim, green in it’s envious heart. It may burn white, or even, in it’s greatest rages, black.
Salman RushdieSalman Rushdie Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.
Tutu DesmondTutu Desmond Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
Samuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson Music is all about transporting people, speaking a language which languages fail to express.
A. R. RahmanA. R. Rahman Page 61: No matter where I go in the world, although I can’t speak any foreign language.
Akira KurosawaAkira Kurosawa The language of love is the language of humility or humbleness.
Mata AmritanandamayiMata Amritanandamayi You can’t eat language but it eases thirst.
Bernard MalamudBernard Malamud When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections.
Niels BohrNiels Bohr I will not compromise on language or content. At 15, people can handle the same language as me, they’re just as complicated as me and are very interested in thinking about important questions for the first time.
Aidan ChambersAidan Chambers Story is the language of the heart.
John EldredgeJohn Eldredge Like all magic cultures expressed by appropriate hieroglyphs, the true theater has its shadows too, and, of all languages and all arts, the theater is the only one left whose shadows have shattered their limitations.
Antonin ArtaudAntonin Artaud Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
Lily TomlinLily Tomlin That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker