Language Quotes

We are facing an external attack against us, which is more dangerous than any other previous wars… We are dealing with those who are extremists, who only know the language of killing and criminality.

I analyse in my own way, in very simple, no-jargon language. If somebody is talking in very complicated way, I never like that.

Ever since I was a kid, I just loved those comedians on TV who would just have fun with the language.

Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,

Sarcasm is the language of people whose emotions are dying.

We can appreciate each other’s languages. And the question of being uncomfortable about our languages would go away.

If a novel is written in a certain language with certain characters from a particular community and the story is very good or illuminating, then that work is translated into the language of another community.

Each man is contained and constrained, on entering social life, to fit his own life in, just as he fits his words and thoughts into a language that was formed without and before him and which is impervious to his power.

Music goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn’t even talk about. We know it’s there.

Entering the game, as it were, whether of belonging to a nation or of using a language.