Language Quotes

Poetry, as odd as it is, and as hard to figure out as it is, many times, it's almost something that we're used to. It's kind of like a dream language that we had centuries ago, so that when we speak poetically or write a poem about what's going on, a real difficult issue that's facing our communities, people listen.

~ Juan Felipe Herrera

Everyone is not able, or inclined, to write poetry in the narrower sense any more than everyone is qualified to take part in a walking race. But just as all of us can and do walk, so all of us can and do use language poetically.

~ Louis Macneice

Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground.

~ Diane Wakoski

The modern progressive movement believes that dissenting language is objectionable, which then removes the brakes between anger and violence.

~ Greg Gutfeld

If you're writing about angry people, you use the language of anger. If you're writing about desperate people, you use the language of desperation.

~ Chris Crutcher

Language, identity, place, home: these are all of a piece - just different elements of belonging and not-belonging.

~ Jhumpa Lahiri

A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.

~ Daniel Dennett

Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.

~ Paul Tillich

Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society.

~ Edward Sapir

Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics.

~ Preston Manning

I'm not a lawyer, and maybe I should have used more specific legal language.

~ Sonny Bono

In legal language, a covenant generally denotes an agreement between two or more parties. But in a religious context, a covenant is much more significant. It is a sacred promise with God. He fixes the terms.

~ Russell M. Nelson

You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn't have any kind of discussion without permission, without a legal framework behind it.

~ Anatoly Chubais

A new, a vast, and a powerful language is developed for the future use of analysis, in which to wield its truths so that these may become of more speedy and accurate practical application for the purposes of mankind than the means hitherto in our possession have rendered possible.

~ Ada Lovelace

What appeals to me? There are things, points of view, uses of the language, habits of dress, ways of thought and believing that came to me from my grandparents and came to them from theirs. Things that are of good use in any situation, no matter what the future may hold.

~ Tommy Lee Jones

I feel often that we don't have the right language to talk about emotions in disasters. Everyone is on edge, of course, but it also pulls people away from a lot of trivial anxieties and past and future concerns and gratuitous preoccupations that we have, and refocuses us in a very intense way.

~ Rebecca Solnit