Language Quotes

Music is the soul of language.

Max Heindel

We can lie in the language of dress or try ot tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.

Alison Lurie

The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.

Ernest Hemingway

Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line often separates affirmation from negation, sense from nonsense, and one sex from the other.

James Grover Thurbe

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 Coleridge

Metric is definitely communist. One monetary system, one language, one weight and measurement system, one world - All communist! We know the West was won by the inch, foot, yard, and mile.

Dean Krakel, Director of the National Cowboy Hall of Fame

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.

George Santayana

The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.

J. Michael Straczynski

I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

Jane Wagne

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

What is important - what lasts - In another language is not what is said but what is written. For the essence of an age, we look to its poetry and its prose, not its talk shows.

Peter Brodie

Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground.

Noah Webste

England and America are two countries separated by a common language.

George Bernard Shaw

If you had the seeds of pestilence in your body you would not have a more active contagion that you have in your tempers, tastes, and principles. Simply to be in this world, whatever you are, is to exert an influence, compared with which mere language and persuasion are feeble.

Horace Bushnell

Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.

Samuel Johnson

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.

James Earl Jones

Our common language is... English. And our common task is to ensure that our non - English - Speaking children learn this common language.

William John Bennett

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. : -

Larry Wall in