Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language. Votes: 0
William Strunk, Jr.Painting is literature in colors. Literature is painting in language. Votes: 0
Pramoedya Ananta ToerLanguage shapes consciousness and from consciousness, our world is shaped. Votes: 0
Antonella Gambotto-BurkeEverything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening. Votes: 0
Jeanette WintersonA language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs. Votes: 0
Ferdinand de SaussureYou should take notes whenever you hear interesting or original language. Votes: 0
Randa Abdel-FattahAlgebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language. Votes: 0
Alfred North WhiteheadThe greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language. Votes: 0
Christopher DawsonEvery quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of language. Votes: 0
Samuel JohnsonHenceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar. Votes: 0
Ferdinand de SaussureThe poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened. Votes: 0
Gerard Manley HopkinsAll true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth. Votes: 0
Antonin ArtaudProfound thought is conveyed in language of very great simplicity and purity. Votes: 0
Charlotte MasonLanguage should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence. Votes: 0
Robert SmithsonThe way Shakespeare wrote Fallstaff is with a heightened language and everything. Votes: 0
Ray StevensonWe were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny. Votes: 0
Salman RushdieSloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation. Votes: 0
Dick CavettA common language is a first step towards communication across cultural boundaries. Votes: 0
Ethan ZuckermanThe habits and language of clandestinity can intoxicate even its own practitioners. Votes: 0
William ColbyA good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming. Votes: 0
Alan PerlisNo literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead. Votes: 0
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe Hawaiian language needs to be studied globally as a language of life. Votes: 0
Cary-Hiroyuki TagawaLove means a lot to those whose hearts understand its rhythm and language Votes: 0
Ikechukwu IzuakorLanguage shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about. Votes: 0
Benjamin Lee WhorfAll mystics speak the same language, for they come from the same country. Votes: 0
Louis Claude de Saint-MartinTo handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery. Votes: 0
Charles BaudelaireThe art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second. Votes: 0
Jean-Jacques AnnaudPractice the vocabulary of love - unlearn the language of hate and contempt. Votes: 0
Sathya Sai BabaThe German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being. Votes: 0
Martin HeideggerThe most important word in the language of the working class is "solidarity." Votes: 0
Harry BridgesFor a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language. Votes: 0
Joseph BrodskyTheologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language. Votes: 0
Meister EckhartMen and women may speak the same language, but we interpret words differently. Votes: 0
Pamela CumminsTypography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form. Votes: 0
Robert BringhurstThe form language used by the ancient Egyptians in their structures is minimal. Votes: 0
Harry SeidlerFEAR is an acronym in the English language for 'False Evidence Appearing Real'. Votes: 0
Neale Donald WalschIf we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world. Votes: 0
Ludwig WittgensteinEven English Language doesn't provide you with the Synonyms of the word Success. Votes: 0
Kshitij ShringiSpeech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language. Votes: 0
Alfred North WhiteheadLiteracy, written language is a very late acquisition in terms of human evolution. Votes: 0
Jean Berko GleasonIt's fascinating when you're from another place, but you don't speak the language. Votes: 0
Marcus SamuelssonLanguage mavens commonly confuse their own peeves with a worsening of the language. Votes: 0
Steven PinkerListen, I'm from Belfast. We're not polite people. And it's language. We're direct. Votes: 0
Paula MalcomsonAnimation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Votes: 0
Walt DisneyLANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure. Votes: 0
Ambrose BierceI'm afraid the Internet is filled with people using really very intemperate language. Votes: 0
Richard DawkinsThe transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation . Votes: 0
Audre LordeAnyone interested in language ends up writing about the sociological issues around it. Votes: 0
David CrystalStill, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground. Votes: 0
Diane WakoskiEverybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection. Votes: 0
Yakov SmirnoffCinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language. Votes: 0
Conrad HallI'm not tribal Labour. I'm a Liberal at heart. Different tradition, different language. Votes: 0
Michael IgnatieffArchitecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet Votes: 0
Ludwig Mies van der RoheAccent is the soul of language; it gives to it both feeling and truth. Votes: 0
Jean-Jacques RousseauA poet is the translator of the silent language of nature to the world. Votes: 0
Rufus Wilmot GriswoldUse what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonEvery good writer has much idiom; it is the life and spirit of language. Votes: 0
Walter Savage LandorOn what rests the hope of the republic? One country, one language, one flag! Votes: 0
Alexander HenryNo language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love. Votes: 0
Edwin Hubbel ChapinWe tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has. Votes: 0
Deborah TannenColour is, on the evidence of language alone, very bound up with the feelings. Votes: 0
Marion MilnerOur culture, language, history, and values are vital to uniting us as a nation. Votes: 0
Bobby JindalSocialist ideology is making France go to pot, and the French language with it. Votes: 0
Maurice DruonUntil you are there, you might not understand the language and pains of poverty Votes: 0
Ikechukwu IzuakorI love the right words. I think economy and precision of language are important. Votes: 0
Chelsea ClintonThe best translations are always the ones in the language the author can't read. Votes: 0
Jorge AmadoAstrology is a language. If you understand this language, the sky speaks to you. Votes: 0
Dane RudhyarThe wild woman is fluent in the language of dreams, images, passion, and poetry. Votes: 0
Clarissa Pinkola EstesMusic is healing and soothing. It is the universal language of kindness and love. Votes: 0
Debasish MridhaMusic is a simulation of something, but language is the greatest thing we possess. Votes: 0
John LydonWas there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect? Votes: 0
Jodi PicoultTypography at its best is a visual form of language linking timelessness and time. Votes: 0
Robert BringhurstWell, language seems to be something that obsesses me. I'm always writing about it. Votes: 0
Lisel MuellerI'm a visual thinker, not a language-based thinker. My brain is like Google Images. Votes: 0
Temple GrandinI personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain. Votes: 0
Jane WagnerHula is the language of the heart, therefore, the heartbeat of the Hawai'ian people. Votes: 0
KalakauaA programming language is a tool that has profound influence on our thinking habits. Votes: 0
Edsger DijkstraI'm not against profanity. It's an important part of the language when used properly. Votes: 0
Robert KleinThe most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language. Votes: 0
Alan KayProletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies. Votes: 0
Theodor AdornoTwitter is most suitable for me. In the Chinese language, 140 characters is a novella, Votes: 0
Ai WeiweiMusic is the Universal Language that allows all people to communicate with each other. Votes: 0
Ellen J. BarrierOur government should speak a common language with the American people - plain English. Votes: 0
Alan SiegelThere are times when the power of language is not the power that is needed. Votes: 0
Leon WieseltierWhen you work in a different language you are not so attached to the words. Votes: 0
Antonio BanderasSenator, we just don't use that kind of language on the floor of the Senate. Votes: 0
Mike MansfieldI believe in a visual language that should be as strong as the written word. Votes: 0
David LaChapelleLanguage is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it. Votes: 0
Dennis RitchieLanguage is the main instrument of man's refusal to accept the world as it is. Votes: 0
George SteinerI'm so far gone that I'm telling the truth. It sounds like a foreign language. Votes: 0
Richard PeckMy French is still good. That's a beautiful language and I'm happy to speak it. Votes: 0
Famke JanssenI have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965. Votes: 0
Wanda JacksonThe Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French. Votes: 0
Wilfrid LaurierTo me the Yiddish language and the conduct of those who spoke it are identical. Votes: 0
Isaac Bashevis SingerI am attached to the French language. I will defend the ubiquitous use of French. Votes: 0
Francois HollandeDo not be troubled for a language, cultivate your soul and she will show herself. Votes: 0
Eugene DelacroixThe stars have their own language, you know. If you're careful, you can learn it. Votes: 0
Sarah JioLanguage is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas. Votes: 0
Samuel JohnsonIt makes sense to me that the polyglot wouldn't know what language he dreamed in. Votes: 0
James ArthurWhen you are a man of the spirit, your convictions speaks the language of heavens Votes: 0
Ikechukwu IzuakorVisual art is a foreign language I'm fluent at, but my native language is language. Votes: 0
Julia GlassThe true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs. Votes: 0
A. E. WaiteThe quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language. Votes: 0
J. Michael StraczynskiComputer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is. Votes: 0
Larry WallAll Christian language about the future is a set of signposts pointing into a mist. Votes: 0
N. T. WrightA poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. Votes: 0
W. H. AudenLanguage is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think. Votes: 0
Holly NearUnder the tropic is our language spoke, And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our yoke. Votes: 0
Edmund WallerIn songwriting, I needed language. And I always believed in singing about what I do. Votes: 0
Jason MolinaThe communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living. Votes: 0
T. S. EliotThe four most powerful words in the English language - please, thanks, sorry and why. Votes: 0
Wendy AlexanderYou must feel what you're singing, not just have a good presentation of the language. Votes: 0
Cecilia BartoliLanguage has created a barrier that prevents us from seeing existence as it truly is. Votes: 0
Chris MatakasI lived for a year in Scotland. British sign language is very different from American. Votes: 0
I. King JordanIf this hast been done to language, I fear to know the fate of all else. Votes: 0
Michael J. SullivanThere was no language barrier when it came to kids, and when it came to play. Votes: 0
Connie SelleccaWhen a person has an accent, it means he can speak one more language than you Votes: 0
Fernando LamasI have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine. Votes: 0
Saul WilliamsWords may be false and full of art; Sighs are the natural language of the heart. Votes: 0
Thomas ShadwellNo one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut. Votes: 0
Sam RayburnWhen people speak their own language you get a much better sense of who they are. Votes: 0
Bruno TonioliThe Holy Bible is the Spirit of God exposed to humanity in the Language of Heaven. Votes: 0
Felix WantangI never said to myself, I am longing; that feeling lived at a level below language. Votes: 0
Lauren SlaterThose are the facts but not the truth, which does not even speak the same language. Votes: 0
Sonja LivingstonWe use so much bad language that it forms a barrier between ourselves and the truth. Votes: 0
Tom RobbinsI try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies. Votes: 0
Dana SpiottaI trade both with the living and the dead, for the enrichment of our native language. Votes: 0
John DrydenLanguage is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs. Votes: 0
Noam ChomskyTwo of the hardest words in the language to rhyme are life and love. Of all words! Votes: 0
Stephen SondheimSlang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work. Votes: 0
Carl SandburgLanguage is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow. Votes: 0
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow. Votes: 0
Oliver Wendell HolmesDeep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help. Votes: 0
Thom GunnWords!The Way is beyond language,for in it there is no yesterday no tomorrow no today. Votes: 0
Xinxin MingMy language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldn't be able to say anything. Votes: 0
Howard Hodgkin