Language Quotes

The Constitution is no simple contract, not because it uses a certain amount of open-ended language, but because its language grants and guarantees many good things, and good things that compete with each other and can never all be realized, altogether, all at once. David Souter

Though music transcends language, culture and time, and though notes are the same, Indian music is unique because it is evolved, sophisticated and melodies are defined. Dayananda Saraswati

Music Time Culture Language Defined Melodies Though Evolved Indian Indian Music Sophisticated Because Same Transcends Notes Unique

'Arrival' talks very little about language and how to precisely dissect a foreign language. It's more a film on intuition and communication by intuition, the language of intuition. Denis Villeneuve

Communication Language Intuition About More Talks How Foreign Foreign Language Arrival Very Precisely Little Film Dissect

Metaphor is embodied in language. Dennis Potter

Language Embodied Metaphor

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand. Edward Appleton

Language Mind Long Sung Opera Understand

We should never denigrate any other culture but rather help people to understand the relationship between their own culture and the dominant culture. When you understand another culture or language, it does not mean that you have to lose your own culture. Edward T. Hall

One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other. Emil Cioran

Language Country Other Fatherland Our Does Inhabit

I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born. Emily Carr

The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression. Eugene Wigner

Natural Language Complexities Laws Through Arise Natural Laws Use Expression

Modesty in dress and language and deportment is a true mark of refinement and a hallmark of a virtuous Latter-day Saint woman. Ezra Taft Benson

Woman Language Mark Virtuous Dress True Hallmark Saint Refinement Modesty

The eyes have one language everywhere. George Herbert

Eyes Language Everywhere

Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because they won't get it later on. Harrison Salisbury

Language Economics Liberal Liberal Arts Later Background Solid Students Journalism Because Understand Get Arts Literature Sociology Need

Women are better at reading body language everywhere in the world. As a matter of fact, it's associated with the female hormone estrogen. Women are better at figuring out of tone of voice, reading your face and posture and gesture. Helen Fisher

An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language. Henri Matisse

All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by God to manifest himself. But this relationship is secret and incomprehensible, beyond the bounds of reason and analysis. Jacques Ellul

In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth. Jacques Lacan

Man Words Language First Before Other Birth Born Given He Deals Caught His Existence In Other Words Who Even

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. James Earl Jones

We have language and they do not. Chimps communicate by embracing, patting, looking - all these things. And they have lots of sounds. But they cannot sit and discuss. They cannot teach about things that are not present, as far as we know. Jane Goodall

Communicate Language Looking Sit Embracing About Know Sounds Lots Discuss As Far As Cannot Far Teach Things Present

I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain. Jane Wagner

Language Think Complain Our Developed Because Personally Deep Inner Need

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