Language Quotes

Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.

We also try to teach them both Portuguese and Serbian, though English is their primary language.

Or those who still believe that language is ‘only words’ and that an old language is good enough for our descriptions of the world we are trying to transform.

Language is a virus from outer space.

I would say that jazz is my own language.

Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.

In this disintegrative, technologically-manic time, when public language is so debased, poetry continues to matter because it’s the art that reintegrates words, speech, voice, breath, music, bodily tempo, and the powers of the imagination.

I think that phrase is the most horrible phrase in the English language – ‘I don’t know.’ It’s terribly embarrassing.

I tried to find a language for the film – not just telling stories. I picked the Picasso painting because it said more than I could explain.

The Soviet Union would never be bound by agreements, Deng warned; it understood only the language of countervailing force.