logo

Quotes About Language

You should do whatever language you feel is the perfect language for you to sing in and then try to strive to do the best.
~ Enrique Iglesias
I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative.
~ Irvine Welsh
The best way to learn a language may be an episode of jail in a foreign country.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
My language! heavens!I am the best of them that speak this speech. Were I but where 'tis spoken.
~ William Shakespeare
I speak English without an accent, and I speak Spanish without an accent. I really do have the best of both worlds.
~ Eva Mendes
... the progress of the language has caused us to lose many old treasures. It is thus with all progress, and one must make the best of it.
~ George Sand
All the best bands have a language, and what they say within that language makes it is what it is.
~ Erol Alkan
Grammar is what gives sense to language .... sentences make words yield up their meaning. Sentences actively create sense in language. And the business of the study of sentences is grammar.
~ David Crystal
Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
~ John Maynard Keynes
The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much bigger business of plunder.
~ Frantz Fanon
Every form of power comes down to language. In law, there's all kinds of words you don't know if you're not a lawyer and that gives them power. In business, it's the same thing.
~ Tony Robbins
Words are your business, boy. Not just the word. Words are everything. The key to the rock, the answer to the question.
~ Ralph Ellison
Do you remember when they taught cursive in schools? I think they don't anymore. But I still enjoy it - just the physical act and all the - the whole business of making a thing out of language.
~ Anne Carson
Benedict Cumberbatch is not only the best name in show business, it's also the response you get when you ask John Travolta to pronounce Ben Affleck.
~ Neil Patrick Harris
I picked up business skills along the way, but there are things you learn at school like speaking the language of business so you can speak with CEOs.
~ Shawne Merriman
All I do know, for certain, after 53 years in this business, is that writers who sincerely think that their language can represent reality ought to be plumbers.
~ Gilbert Sorrentino
People think that other international languages are smarter and more business wise. But they have to understand that we have to preserve our culture.
~ Enock Maregesi
Write bylaws in a simple language—no one needs an advanced degree to understand them.
~ Holly Duckworth
Your world is created by your words.
~ Timi Nadela, Get To The Top
Cars are changing and so is the way we communicate about them.
~ Richard Hammond
I bought a new Japanese car, I turned on the radio ... I don't understand a word they're saying.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.
~ Theodore Bikel
The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by chance, not system.
~ Walker Evans
Love is the single most powerful and important word and notion in culture and language. Until the power of love supersedes the love of power we have no chance of ever being successful.
~ Bill Walton