Quotes of: Language Keyword

On what rests the hope of the republic? One country, one language, one flag!

Alexander Henry

The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in the language or design of the Constitution.

Byron White

Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.

Humphry Davy

I'm inspired by playwrights, novelists, poets: The value of language has been a lifelong passion of mine. I enjoy it. I'm good at it.

Mos Def

Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.

Thomas Bulfinch

Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language.

Eric Allin Cornell

Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.

Gates McFadden

I've always felt, even as a songwriter, that the rhythm of speech is in itself a language for me.

Cyndi Lauper

Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing.

J. L. Austin

I appreciate people who try and use language in an interesting way.

Jarvis Cocker

Fashion is a language. Some know it, some learn it, some never will - like an instinct.

Edith Head

I haven't sat down and memorized the language of Elvish, and anyone who does that is crazy!

Evangeline Lilly

Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.

Bela Lugosi

Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages.

Benjamin Whorf

To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.

Charles Baudelaire

Denmark is like a secret little place with its own special language.

Helena Christensen

To fly/steal is woman’s gesture, to steal into language to make it fly.

Hélène Cixous

Write bylaws in a simple language—no one needs an advanced degree to understand them.

Holly Duckworth

Language forces us to perceive the world as man presents it to us.

Julia Penelope

While a people preserves its language; it preserves the marks of liberty.

Jose Rizal

The market is like a language, and you have to be able to understand what they're saying.

Jil Sander