Language Quotes
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 Speech happens to not be his language.
Madame de StaelMadame de Stael 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 Just remember if we get caught, you’re deaf and I don’t speak English.
Rick RiordanRick Riordan The Germans and I no longer speak the same language.
Marlene DietrichMarlene Dietrich When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it’s funny in any language.
Alan GarnerAlan Garner A person who acquires English has access to all the things that that language makes possible.
Ngugi wa Thiong'oNgugi wa Thiong'o I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language.
Alan FurstAlan Furst The greatest single programming language ever designed
Alan KayAlan Kay Music is a universal language insofar as you don’t need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music.
Jerry GarciaJerry Garcia Such indeed is the respect paid to science, that the most absurd opinions may become current, provided they are expressed in language, the sound of which recals [sic] some well-known scientific phrase.
James Clerk MaxwellJames Clerk Maxwell To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
George EliotGeorge Eliot