language quotes

• It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in a language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs. (Thomas Hardy) [feelings/language/men]
• "An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates. (Thomas Mann) [art/language/willpower/high]
• Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. (Henry James) [words/english/language]
• Music is the universal language of mankind. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) [music/language/mankind]
• With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows. (Antonin Artaud) [society/language]
• Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire. (Roland Barthes) [language/language/words/words]
• All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology. (Roland Barthes) [language/school/advertising/news]
• To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished. (Roland Barthes) [love/language/language]
• Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive. (Roland Barthes) [language/speech/power/speech]
• Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence. (Jean Baudrillard) [language/pleasure]
• If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity. (Jean Baudrillard) [love/love/language/form]
• The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary. (Italo Calvino) [literature/language/literature]
• The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions. (Italo Calvino) [land/language/result]
• There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth. (Elias Canetti) [thing/ugly/language/language]
• Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it. (Thomas Carlyle) [language]
• Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience. (Dale Carnegie) [language]
• It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be within the grasp of superficially educated people. It is not a natural growth, much as its proletarian writers would like to think so. But compared with it at its best, English has reached the Alexandrian stage of formalism and decay. (Raymond Chandler) [language/language/being/writers]
• Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered. (Leonard Cohen) [prayer/child/language]
• Good music is very close to primitive language. (Denis Diderot) [music/language]
• Finality is not the language of politics. (Benjamin Disraeli) [language/politics]
• When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language. (John Donne) [language]
• The words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The physical entities which seem to serve as elements in thought are certain signs and more or less clear images. (Albert Einstein) [words/language/role/more]
• Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone. (Albert Einstein) [/science/language]
• The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words. (George Eliot) [language/words]
• When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [eyes/thing/language]
• Language is the archives of history. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [language]
• No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby-so helpless and so ridiculous. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [language]
• Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [language/human/being]
• The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [language/willpower/men/speak]
• Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [language/action]
• I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization. (Frantz Fanon) [phenomenon/language/speak/position]

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