Language Quotes

Music is a language of emotion.

We are obliged to steal pieces of language, both visual and textual.

So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.

I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralysed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something – a great deal – to do with how we live our lives and whom we end up speaking with and hearing.

With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.

Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.

But I think people, especially white people, have to come to understand that the language of the ghetto is a language of its own, and as the party – whose members for the most part come from the ghetto – seeks to talk to the people, it must speak the people’s language.

Anyone’s happier when they’re not being verbally abused all day long.

The same questions are there in Native American languages, they’re there in native Canadian languages, they’re there is some marginalized European languages, like say, Irish.

That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.