Language famous quotes

The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.
-- A. E. Waite

#Symbolism #Tarot #Language

Music is all about transporting people; speaking a language which languages fail to express.
-- A. R. Rahman

#People #Language #Failing

I want to go beyond the restrictions of language, religion and caste, and music is the only thing that allows me to do that.
-- A. R. Rahman

#Want #Language #Restriction

I gravitate toward the larger worldview questions such as, Why are we here? What are we supposed to be doing? What does it mean to know another person? To love someone? Of course, those questions are sort of in the background as I'm playing with language in the foreground, but those are the informing questions.
-- Aaron Belz

#Mean #Doe #Language

Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
-- Abbie Hoffman

#People #Wish #Language

At a priesthood meeting... the strongest language in regard to Plural Marriage was used that I ever heard, and among other things it was stated that all men in position who would not observe and fulfill that law should be removed from their places.
-- Abraham H. Cannon

#Men #Law #Language

Expression and communication in the peak–experiences tend often to become poetic, mythical, and rhapsodic, as if this were the natural kind of language to express such states of being.
-- Abraham Maslow

#Communication #Expression #Language

Language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.
-- Abraham Maslow

#Communication #Way #Language

Speak the language of the person you want to become.
-- Adam Braun

#Want #Language #Speak

Gore speaks to America as if English is its second language; George W. speaks as if English is his second language.
-- Adam Clymer

#America #Language #Speak

Perhaps we should keep our monsters about us, lest we become them ourselves.
-- Adam Dunn

#Book #Monsters #Language

We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.
-- Adam Gopnik

#Swim #Firsts #Language

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
-- Adrienne Rich

#Relationship #Language #Concentration

There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
-- Agnes Repplier

#Education #Language #Liberal Education

When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It's nourishing; it's rejuvenating.
-- Aimee Bender

#Feel Good #Body #Language

It was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we'd read about it in a manual, translated from another language, and were doing our best with what we could understand.
-- Aimee Bender

#Daughter #Father #Language

My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
-- Al Pacino

#Shy #Firsts #Language

Act averse to nasty language and partial to fruity tea.
-- Al Swearengen

#Tea #Nasty #Language

When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it's funny in any language.
-- Alan Garner

#Monkeys #Language

The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
-- Alan Kay

#Firsts #Language #Programming

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
-- Alan Kay

#Technology #Machines #Language

Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
-- Alan Kay

#Language #Building #Materials

The greatest single programming language ever designed
-- Alan Kay

#Language #Programming #Programming Languages

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
-- Alan Perlis

#Attention #Levels #Language

In English every word can be verbed.
-- Alan Perlis

#Language #English Language

In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
-- Alan Perlis

#Language #Programming #Programming Languages

Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
-- Alan Perlis

#Progress #Language #Programming

A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
-- Alan Perlis

#Learning #Thinking #Language

Well, visual language is another boring discussion about the nature of film.
-- Alan Rudolph

#Language #Film #Boring

As we read a text in our own language, the text itself becomes a barrier.
-- Alberto Manguel

#Language #Barriers

For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Intuition #Language #Spite

I consider myself a pretty good conversationalist, but you wind up being downgraded to idiot status when you don't speak the language!
-- Alec Baldwin

#Wind #Idiot #Language

I hardly ever talk- words seem such a waste, and they are none of them true. No one has yet invented a language from my point of view.
-- Aleister Crowley

#Views #Waste #Language

Even so, sometimes I wish I did have a little bit more flair in my language.
-- Alex Berenson

#Wish #Littles #Language

Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and it's reflected in his writings.
-- Alex Cox

#Writing #Conservative #Language

Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.
-- Alex Cox

#Squares #Littles #Language

Kindness is a universal language regardless of age, nationality or religion.
-- Alex Ferguson

#Kindness #Age #Language

A thug only understands you when you speak his language
-- Alexander Lukashenko

#Memorable #Thug #Language

I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
-- Alexander Pushkin

#Want #Study #Language

One of the most frustrating words in the human language, as far as I could tell, was love" - Bethany
-- Alexandra Adornetto

#Language #Frustrating #Humans

Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.
-- Alexandre Dumas

#Opportunity #Mastery #Language

The tie of language is perhaps the strongest and the most durable that can unite mankind.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville

#Ties #Language #Mankind

Mathematics is pure language - the language of science. It is unique among languages in its ability to provide precise expression for every thought or concept that can be formulated in its terms.
-- Alfred Adler

#Unique #Expression #Language

Actually, my correspondent's language is better than mine. He can put his sentiment into words.
-- Alfred Hershey

#Sentimental #Language #Sentiments

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.
-- Alfred North Whitehead

#Progress #Evolution #Language

Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language.
-- Alfred North Whitehead

#Math #Ordinary #Language

How many languages do we really speak?
-- Alfredo Jaar

#Language #Speak

Zis and zat' when uttered by the French is considered charming, but 'dis and dat' as an Africanism is ridiculed as gross and ugly.
-- Alice Childress

#Prejudice #Ugly #Language

Anguish is the universal language
-- Alice Fulton

#Language #Anguish #Universal Language

You can never tell about a person by guessing...that's why language was invented. Otherwise, we'd all be like dogs, sniffing each other to find out where we stood.
-- Alice Hoffman

#Dog #Guessing #Language

The world was a cruder, more vulgar place than the one I had known. This was the language required to live in it, I supposed.
-- Alice McDermott

#World #Language #Vulgar

What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about a plight that must be understood.
-- Alice Miller

#Addiction #Plight #Language

The exchange of words is a lot like a virtual handshake. Is the writer's grasp of the language strong and bold? Are the words gripping? Direct? Inventive? Sincere?
-- Allison Mackie

#Strong #Language #Sincere

The best translators slip into the glove of a text and then turn it inside out into another language, and the whole thing comes out looking like a brand-new glove again. I'm completely in awe of this skill, since I happen to be both bilingual and a writer, but nevertheless a lousy translator.
-- Alma Guillermoprieto

#Skills #Gloves #Language

One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language.
-- Alma Guillermoprieto

#Doe #Language #Given

Dictionary: a malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Growth #Language #Literary Devices

Hash, x. There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is. Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable. Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Growth #Definitions #Language

The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.
-- Ammianus Marcellinus

#Truth #Simple #Language

Language is the tool of my trade -and I use them all - all the Englishes I grew up with
-- Amy Tan

#Tools #Use #Language

I would say that jazz is my own language.
-- Amy Winehouse

#Jazz #Language

Art speaks its own language-soul to soul, heart to heart.
-- Ana Tzarev

#Art #Soul #Language

I never liked the language of Henry Miller. I don't think ***** has added to our sensual life.
-- Anais Nin

#Thinking #Sensual #Language

Life, religion and art all converge in Bali. They have no word in their language for 'artist' or 'art.' Everyone is an artist.
-- Anais Nin

#Art #Asia #Language

Reality is beyond speech and thought. Only that which can be expressed in words is being said. But what cannot be put into language is indeed That which IS.
-- Anandamayi Ma

#Reality #Speech #Language

You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn't have any kind of discussion without permission, without a legal framework behind it.
-- Anatoly Chubais

#Needs #Language #Kind

Photography is my only language.
-- Andre Kertesz

#Photography #Photographer #Language

I make music to touch the souls of people as it's a language we all can speak.
-- Andre Rieu

#People #Soul #Language

It is a tragedy beyond the power of language to convey when what has been imposed on women by force becomes a standard of freedom for women: and all the women say it is so.
-- Andrea Dworkin

#Tragedy #Language #Force

It's still a mystery to me exactly how I learned the language. [But] I was 19 years old and I had very urgent things to tell girls.
-- Andrei Codrescu

#Girl #Years #Language

I like to call someone a raving c**t every now and then, when it’s appropriate, for effect (...) ‘You cocksucker.’ I love that kind of language.
-- Andrew Breitbart

#Language #Kind #Now And Then

I certainly don't walk around my home or being with my family and just using profane language all the time, but on stage, it's a constant,
-- Andrew Dice Clay

#Home #Language #My Family

I start by using Chinese and many of the sounds of other languages are similar.
-- Andy Lau

#Chinese #Sound #Language

I like to play with someone who can cover a lot of ground and someone with whom you can discuss the language at a reasonable level; otherwise it gets a bit frustrating.
-- Andy Summers

#Play #Levels #Language

The language of priorities is the religion of socialism.
-- Aneurin Bevan

#Priorities #Language #Socialism

Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.
-- Angela Carter

#Culture #Language #Instruments

He is, I think, already pondering a magisterial project: that of buggering the English language, the ultimate revenge of the colonialised.
-- Angela Carter

#Revenge #Thinking #Language

I think you always feel braver in another language.
-- Anita Brookner

#Thinking #Language #Feels

The only language she could speak was grief. How could he not know that? Instead, she said, "I love you." She did. She loved him. But even that didn't feel like anything anymore.
-- Ann Hood

#Grief #Love You #Language

One must not be shy where language is concerned.
-- Ann Patchett

#Shy #Language #Concerned

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.
-- Anna Brownell Jameson

#Language #Accuracy

I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators 'the haute couture of language.'
-- Anna Deavere Smith

#Political #Haute Couture #Language

I was very adept at acquiring languages.
-- Anna Held

#Language

A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.
-- Anna Seward

#Acquisition #Attention #Language

A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
-- Anne Carson

#Population #Language #Hungry

What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
-- Anne Carson

#Burning #Body #Language

Language grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences. 828
-- Anne Sullivan Macy

#Needs #Language #Grows

I am influenced by words and the chewiness of language
-- Annie Proulx

#Language

My French definitely improves the more I drink, as I worry less and less about absolutely perfect grammar. I do speak and understand the language, just not particularly well.
-- Anthony Bourdain

#Perfect #Worry #Language

Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination.
-- Anthony Burgess

#Imagination #Records #Language

My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness.
-- Anthony Doerr

#Silence #Pockets #Language

It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is.
-- Anthony Doerr

#Language #Inadequate

She was fluent in four languages and yet her fists against the rusted hood were the fullest articulation of her defeat.
-- Anthony Marra

#Four #Fists #Language

What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#Men #Desire #Language

Languages are true analytical methods.
-- Antoine Lavoisier

#Language #Method

It is impossible to disassociate language from science...To call forth a concept, a word is needed.
-- Antoine Lavoisier

#Impossible #Language #Needed

Body language is so important, as is composition. You can not say something, and then the body reacts, and it says a lot of things dialogue can also say.
-- Anton Corbijn

#Important #Body #Language

What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into concepts...
-- Anton Webern

#Ideas #Want #Language

Language shapes consciousness and from consciousness, our world is shaped.
-- Antonella Gambotto-Burke

#Our World #Shapes #Language

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.
-- Antonin Artaud

#Communication #Teeth #Language

With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.
-- Antonin Artaud

#Bombs #Language #Tyranny