Language Quotes
Language does not make one an elite.
Irrfan KhanIrrfan Khan That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
Alan KayAlan Kay I feel it is unnatural and immoral to try to teach science to children in a foreign language They will know facts, but they will miss the spirit.
C. V. RamanC. V. Raman The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
Gore VidalGore Vidal I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.
Irrfan KhanIrrfan Khan She leads us through their unknown world, her gift of language rising up like a delicate string of necessary lights.
Adrian Nicole LeBlancAdrian Nicole LeBlanc What I mean is that what composes an event is always extracted from a situation, always related back to a singular multiplicity, to its state, to the language that is connected to it, etc.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou The child, merely by going on with his life, learns to speak the language belonging to his race. It is like a mental chemistry that takes place in the child.
Maria MontessoriMaria Montessori What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others.
Niels BohrNiels Bohr The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
Maria MontessoriMaria Montessori Tend to be people who didn’t take S.A.T.s, or first-time voters, or people with English as a second language.
Al FrankenAl Franken The media must be used effectively to reach the masses. You have to find a new language in which to address the people and demonstrate what is possible.
Wole SoyinkaWole Soyinka Giving English to an American is like giving sex to a child.
Adam CooperAdam Cooper The origins of chemistry were ignoble, or at least equivocal: the dens of the alchemists, their abominable hodgepodge of ideas and language, their confessed interest in gold, their Levantine swindles typical of charlatans and magicians; instead.
Primo LeviPrimo Levi No one sleeps in this room without the dream of a common language.
Adrienne RichAdrienne Rich For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge