Language Quotes

I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.

And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.

Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.

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.

A monomaniac is a sick person whose mentality is perfectly healthy in all respects but one; he has a single flaw, clearly localized. At times, for example, he has an unreasonable and absurd desire to drink or steal or use abusive language; but all his other acts and all his other thoughts are strictly correct.

I think there is no difference between the language of Shah Rukh Khan and Hafiz Saeed.

The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But we cannot speak about atoms in ordinary language.

Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.

We might possess every technological resource… but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless.

He who has two languages has two souls.