Language Quotes

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

He who has two languages has two souls.

The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.

The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.

Ernest Hemingway was always uneasy in New York and liked being there less than in any other city he frequented.

You need to learn to stand up for yourself and what you believe and sometimes, pardon my language, kick some ass.

Nature is a book of many pages and each page tells a fascinating story to him who learns her language.

The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.

To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.