2,489 Quotes About Language

I was always influenced by language.

No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.

Painting is... a richer language than words... Painting operates through signs which are not abstract and incorporeal like words. The signs of painting are much closer to the objects themselves.

The bare fact that language consists of sounds which are mutually intelligible is enough of itself to show that its meaning depends upon connection with a shared experience.

It's better if you don't know their native language.

The Germans and I no longer speak the same language.

The liberation of language is rooted in the liberation of ourselves....

Why mess with success? If the language worked in the House, you would think it would work here in the Senate as well,

Laguna' was sort of told in the visual language of a lush teen drama. The idea here was to be a little grittier, more voyeuristic.