Language Quotes - page 8

Swearing is industry language. For as long as we're alive it's not going to change. You've got to be boisterous to get results. (Gordon Ramsay)
Toeing the starting line of a marathon, regardless of the language you speak, the God you worship or the color of your skin, we all stand as equal. Perhaps the world would be a better place if more people ran. View quote
Dean Karnazes
As thy days, so shall thy strength be which, in modern language, may be translated as thy thoughts so shall thy life be. View quote
Emmet Fox
When I started writing my stories, I thought that not only nobody outside my language, but nobody outside my neighbourhood would get them. View quote
Etgar Keret
... for music alone can abolish differences of language or culture between two people and invoke something indestructible within them. View quote
Irene Nemirovsky
You can never tell about a person by guessing...that's why language was invented. Otherwise, we'd all be like dogs, sniffing each other to find out where we stood. View quote
Alice Hoffman
Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language. View quote
Christopher Lasch
They're on their way to the foreign-language wing. That's no surprise. The foreign kids are always here, like they need to breathe air scented with their native language a couple times a day or they'll choke to death on too much American. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
I dislike math, yet I respect and appreciate the fact that math is the language of the universe. View quote
Lucas Grabeel
Fashion is a language. Some know it, some learn it, some never will - like an instinct. View quote
Edith Head
Over the years, I've trained myself to speak using the same language I would use if I were typing: meaning using full sentences in the way that paragraphs and scenes are arranged. (Kevin J. Anderson)
The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language. View quote
Christopher Dawson
Apparently Arnold was inspired by President Bush, who proved you can be a successful politician in this country even if English is your second language. View quote
Conan O'Brien
I think I am too interested in my own ideas to copy anyone else's, but I find that other people's imagery, the flow of language in the outside world, games with words, and ideas about relationships are all most important to me. View quote
Margaret Mahy
Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth. View quote
Ferdinand de Saussure
Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another. View quote
Ferdinand de Saussure
Neither Aristotelian nor Russellian rules give the exact logic of any expression of ordinary language; for ordinary language has no exact logic. View quote
P. F. Strawson
Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square. View quote
Alex Cox
We need a president who's fluent in at least one language. View quote
Buck Henry
Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words. View quote
Deborah Bull
And I have to work so hard at talking positively to myself. If I don't, it's just real hard to get through the day, and I'll get really down, and just want to cry. My whole body language changes. I get more slumped over. (Delta Burke)
I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc. View quote
Diane Wakoski
I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry. View quote
Diane Wakoski
I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to intrigue and hook a reader. View quote
Dick Schaap
I was also in love with the English language. View quote
Dick Schaap