Language Quotes

The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.

The Germans and I no longer speak the same language.

When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it’s funny in any language.

A person who acquires English has access to all the things that that language makes possible.

I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language.

The greatest single programming language ever designed

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.

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.

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

But we’ve got all the language wrong and made this divide between secularism and spirituality, whereas instead it’s about being human.