Language Quotes
I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad.
Jet LiJet Li My thought process is in Malayalam. So, every time I have to work outside Malayalam, the process is a little stressful. I have to translate my Malayalam thoughts into English and back to Tamil.
Fahadh FaasilFahadh Faasil It is aurora borealis when your eyes are shut. It is beyond what our language can convey or comprehend.
Melanie MartinezMelanie Martinez Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
Henri BergsonHenri Bergson I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralyzed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something – a great deal – to do with how we live our lives.
Adrienne RichAdrienne Rich The tie of language is perhaps the strongest and the most durable that can unite mankind.
Alexis de TocquevilleAlexis de Tocqueville In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country’s fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!
Ivan TurgenevIvan Turgenev I don’t see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty – and evaporating quickly.
Dick CavettDick Cavett A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and a culture, and the living embodiment of the thoughts and fancies that have moulded them.
Jawaharlal NehruJawaharlal Nehru Language transcends us and yet we speak.
Maurice Merleau PontyMaurice Merleau Ponty The process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialised language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve;.
Abraham VergheseAbraham Verghese In our evolution language has been the greatest single contribution to our understanding and misunderstanding
Rasheed OgunlaruRasheed Ogunlaru Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
Ezra PoundEzra Pound Laughter is the language of the soul.
Pablo NerudaPablo Neruda The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.
Jonathan SwiftJonathan Swift