Authors
Topics
Lists
Pictures
Resources
Language Quotes
500+ Sourced quotes
Source
Report...
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
Dale Carnegie
Source
Report...
History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.
Theodor W. Adorno
Source
Report...
French is the language that turns dirt into romance.
Stephen King
Source
Report...
The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.
Richard Rorty
Source
Report...
Whenever one reads of the determination of the species, or opens a book on natural science and history, in whatever language, one inevitably comes across the name of Linne.
Johannes V. Jensen
Source
Report...
While a people preserves its language; it preserves the marks of liberty.
José Rizal
Source
Report...
True creativity often starts where language ends.
Arthur Koestler
Source
Report...
Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.
Andrea Dworkin
Source
Report...
But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.
Charles Ives
Source
Report...
As our language wanes and dies, the golden legends of the far-off centuries fade and pass away. No one sees their influence upon culture; no one sees their educational power.
Douglas Hyde
Source
Report...
As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements and possibilities of language; every human use of words that is joyful, or honest or new, because experience is new... But as a Black poet and writer, I hate words that cancel my name and my history and the freedom of my future: I hate the words that condemn and refuse the language of my people in America.
June Jordan
Source
Report...
I do not mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
Edward Appleton
Source
Report...
The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.
James Fenimore Cooper
Source
Report...
Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means.
Paul de Man
Source
Report...
After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?
Russell Hoban
Source
Report...
It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
Thomas Hardy
Source
Report...
All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously incomprehensible to our soul now become the meaningful language of nature.
Rudolf Steiner
Source
Report...
The nine most terrifying words in the English language are "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help."
Ronald Reagan
Source
Report...
As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor — those great tools of thought — and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.
Naomi Shihab Nye
Source
Report...
The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat.
It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
Is it a terrible thing to be lonely?
Carl Sandburg
Source
Report...
Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.
Octavio Paz
Source
Report...
I believe that dreams transport us through the underside of our days, and that if we wish to become acquainted with the dark side of what we are, the signposts are there, waiting for us to translate them. Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.
Gail Godwin
Source
Report...
At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language.
Lafcadio Hearn
Source
Report...
Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the language in which Keats and the rest of them wrote!
Wilfred Owen
Source
Report...
Both French and Latin are involved with nationalistic and religious implications which could not be entirely shaken off, and so, while they seemed for a long time to have solved the international language problem up to a certain point, they did not really do so in spirit.
Edward Sapir
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
...
20
Quote of the day
A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
Golda Meir
Featured Authors
Lists
Predictions that didn't happen
If it's on the Internet it must be true
Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)
Picture Quotes
Confucius
Philip James Bailey
Eleanor Roosevelt
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Popular Topics
life
love
nature
time
god
power
human
mind
work
art
heart
thought
men
day
×
Lib Quotes