Quotes About Language

I went through a phase of reading lots of Urdu poetry, thanks to the great transliterated versions that have become available.

Felicity, not fluency of language, is a merit.

I believe that laughter is a language of God and that we can all live happily ever laughter.

Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection.

Remember that one who forgets the language of gratitude can never be on speaking terms with happiness.

Laughter has no foreign accent.

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Happiness is a very proud word of our whole cultural heritage.

For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself.

The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.

I shouldn't have named the chimps. It wasn't scientific. I didn't know. I knew nothing. And worse sin of all was that I was ascribing to them emotions like happiness, sadness and so forth.

If your eyes could speak, what would they say?

We unfortunately identify people by their religion, but my question is that, how can you say that we got different religious when we all smile in a same language..!

We are not voting for health care if we do not resolve this language on public funding for abortion - no public funding for abortion.

He was seemingly born not only with a gift for language, but with a particularly nasty clock which makes him go crazy every three years or so.

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

The word 'Sudra' which means 'Son of prostitute' should not find a place even in the history hereafter. We will not allow it to find a place in the dictionary or encycl

A language is not just words. It's a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what a community is. It's all embodied in a language.

Because we are in the world, we are condemned to meaning, and we cannot do or say anything without its acquiring a name in history.

The truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living element.

Let us see whether it is the New Order or me who will be the loser before Indonesian history. I have won. The New Order has fallen and my writings have been translated into 40 languages.

Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.

For words are magical formulae. They leave finger marks be hind on the brain, which in the twinkling of an eye become the footprints of history. One ought to watch one' s every word.