2,489 Quotes About Language

Sunday, the day for the language of leisure.

She spoke with the usual cadences of the young: sentences curling upward at the end, all statements fading into a smoky, implied question mark, as though nothing could be said with any reasonable certainty.

Whales have a highly evolved language that works like sonar. They have special neurons called spindle cells. Human have them, too, and they’re linked with self-awareness, and compassion, and language. Except whales have had them about fifteen million years longer than we have.

Let's create a new 'International Language'! According to me, an International Language will be such a new kind of language that will be created by the presence and consent of the representatives of all the countries in the world. This new language will contain utterly new alphabets, fresh grammatical rules, original or selective vocabulary from all the current languages in the world etc.

চলুন একটি নতুন আন্তর্জাতিক ভাষা সৃষ্টি করি! আমার মতে আন্তর্জাতিক ভাষা হবে এমন একটি নতুন ধরণের ভাষা যেটি সৃষ্টি করা হবে পৃথিবীর সকল দেশের প্রতিনিধিদের উপস্থিতি ও সম্মতির মাধ্যমে। এই নতুন ভাষায় থাকবে সম্পূর্ণ নতুন বর্ণমালা, ব্যাকরণরীতি, নতুন বা বিদ্যমান সকল ভাষা হতে নির্বাচিত শব্দভাণ্ডার ইত্যাদি।

Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.

Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a child's Meccano set. It is the unavoidable result of self-censorship. To write in plain, vigorous language one has to think fearlessly, and if one thinks fearlessly one cannot be politically orthodox.

Know what you are talking about.

An entire mythology is stored within our language.