Language Quotes - Page 33

• My language! heavens!I am the best of them that speak this speech. Were I but where 'tis spoken.

  William Shakespeare

  Heaven, Speech, Speak

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons (1836). “The Dramatic Works and Poems of William Shakespeare”, p.36

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• Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue.

  William Shakespeare

  Speech, Tongue, Praying

  William Shakespeare (1740). “The Works of Shakespeare: In Eight Volumes. Collated with the Oldest Copies, and Corrected: with Notes, Explanatory, and Critical”, p.160

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• Ay, is it not a language I speak?

  William Shakespeare

  Speak

  William Shakespeare, Charles Henry Wheeler (1832). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: With Glossarial Notes, a Sketch of His Life, and an Estimate of His Writings”, p.676

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• I know how to say 'no' in twelve languages. That's enough for a woman.

  Sophia Loren

  Twelve, Enough, Know How

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• Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.

  William James

  Mean, Imperfect, Communicate

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• There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with these the sound of hands, made a tumult which is whirling through that air forever dark, and sand eddies in a whirlwind.

  Dante Alighieri

  Pain, Dark, Language Words

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• Why would you have a language that is not theoretically exciting? Because it's very useful.

  Rob Pike

  Programming, Exciting

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• Go is such a refreshing language to program in, there is very little clutter just the stuff you need to get the job done

  Matthew West

  Jobs, Needs, Done

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• The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud.

  George Steiner

  Life, Music, Fashion

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• As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.

  Karl Marx

  Life, Real, Party

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1975). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: collected works”

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• 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

  Love, Hate, Names

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• The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism. Drunk with self-love, criticism has hugely overestimated the centrality of language to western culture. It has failed to see the electrifying sign language of images.

  Camille Paglia

  Love, Art, Self

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae”, p.51, Yale University Press

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• That first pregnancy is a long sea journey to a country where you don't know the language, where land is in sight for such a long time that after a while it's just the horizon - and then one day birds wheel over that dark shape and it's suddenly close, and all you can do is hope like hell that you've had the right shots.

  Emily Perkins

  Country, Pregnancy, Dark

  Emily Perkins (2012). “Novel About My Wife”, p.68, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together.

  Bill Gates

  Travel, Brother, Writing

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• The fact is that if you have not developed language, you simply don't have access to most of human experience, and if you don't have access to experience, then you're not going to be able to think properly.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Experience, Able

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• Life is a language in which certain truths are conveyed to us; if we could learn them in some other way, we should not live.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  True Life, Way, Life Is

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• I've found that there are only two kinds that are any good: slang that has established itself in the language, and slang that you make up yourself. Everything else is apt to be passe before it gets into print.

  Raymond Chandler

  Two, Kind, Found

  Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.80, Univ of California Press

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• In fast-moving, progress-conscious America, the consumer expects to be dizzied by progress. If he could completely understand advertising jargon he would be badly disappointed. The half-intelligibility which we expect, or even hope, to find in the latest product language personally reassures each of us that progress is being made: that the pace exceeds our ability to follow.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Moving, America, Progress

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There was a time when we were told . . . that a sense of common interest would preside over the conduct of the respective members...This language at the present day would appear as wild as that great part of what we now hear from the same quarter will be thought, when we shall have received further lessons from that best oracle of wisdom, experience.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Wisdom Experience, Public Opinion, Oracles

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• There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting, and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Pain, Attitude, Struggle

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• The most evident difference springs from the important part which is played in man by a relatively strong power of imagination and by the capacity to think, aided as it is by language and other symbolically devices.

  Albert Einstein

  Strong, Spring, Power

  Albert Einstein (1956). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, Gramercy

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• What night gave Rafael was a formlessness in which everything had a purpose. As if darkness had a hidden musical language.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Music, Night, Darkness

  Michael Ondaatje (2010). “Divisadero”, p.57, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Fearlessness, absolutely. Discipline. You also need open-minded creativeness that lets everything in. You never want to lose a word or a phrase, yet every one should count. Always the best language possible. And, finally, knowing when to leave it alone. Stop when it's done.

  Ben Harper

  Writing, Knowing, Discipline

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• Church reminded me very much of going to shul. It was a bunch of men wearing long robes, speaking in a language I didn't understand.

  Amy-Jill Levine

  Men, Long, Church

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• I had a linguistics professor who said that it's man's ability to use language that makes him the dominant species on the planet.That may be. But I think there's one other thing that separates us from animals. We aren't afraid of vaccuum cleaners.

  Jeff Stilson

  Funny, Animal, Men

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