Language Quotes
You have never forgotten how home was more than just a language you grew inside your mouth before you said it in a way your tongue bled.
Nikita GillNikita Gill I have three tools at my disposal – my whistle, my body language and my talk.
Alan LewisAlan Lewis Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
Terence McKennaTerence McKenna Books are mute as far as sound is concerned. It follows that reading aloud is a combination of two distinct operations, of two ‘languages.’ It is something far more complex than speaking and reading taken separately by themselves.
Maria MontessoriMaria Montessori Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.
Jean BaudrillardJean Baudrillard There’s no word in the language I revere more than ‘teacher.’ My heart sings when a kid refers to me as his teacher, and it always has. I’ve honored myself and the entire family of man by becoming a teacher.
Pat ConroyPat Conroy If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
Henry JamesHenry James Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
Alan PerlisAlan Perlis I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
Stephen FryStephen Fry Our language and symbols are always incomplete versions of a greater reality.
Alan BriskinAlan Briskin If I knew the language enough to know it was a horrible love song with stupid lyrics.
Alan BishopAlan Bishop Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.
Al AlvarezAl Alvarez Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. Let them make the effort to express these ideas in appropriate words without the aid of symbols, and if they succeed they will not only lay us laymen under a lasting obligation.
James Clerk MaxwellJames Clerk Maxwell What distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the development of language in which words were not mere signals, but signifiers of something other than themselves.
John BergerJohn Berger