Best 3547 quotes in «language quotes» category

I could eat healthier, I could drink less. I should be learning another language and working out more, but I'm just always saying, 'Ah, I could get hit by a bus tomorrow.'

I couldn't live without music. I experienced things through music in different countries where you cannot speak the same language, but the music and the dance relates everything.

I cried in English, I cried in french, I cried in all the languages, because tears are the same all around the world.

I could speak Spanish fluently growing up, but I'm so out of practice, and I have such a tremendous respect for songwriting in the Spanish language.

I could teach you how to speak my language, Rosetta Stone.

Ideas do not respect national frontiers, and this is especially so where language and other traditions are in common.

I decided to come back and teach goodness in this business. To teach love, because music is the universal language. We are God's bouquet, and through music we become one.

I definitely do see language serving its users, and when it no longer serves them we need to look for new words.

I definitely have a gift for language that is rhythmic and attractive to the ear, and I have interesting [verbal] imagery which I guess is a poetic touch.

I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.

I didn't know the language of my own wisdom. I wanted to be loved and after all the various relationships I went through, I finally realized I am love. I carry love.

I dislike pastiche; it attracts attention to the language only.

I do have a regard for the musicality of language that came from BBC sitcoms like 'Fawlty Towers.'

I do love to interpret songs in American Sign Language.

I do not pretend that language is science. It isan instrument for the attainment of science.

I do not share the wish to see my language dead and decently buried

I don't have any phobias with any language, and I've grown up listening to Anglo-American rock n roll as well as Welsh-language punk rock and I'm all for sharing languages.

I don't know what the language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called Fortran.

I don't speak anything fluently, but I love picking up languages and I do this Duolingo app. I started when I moved to Sweden, when I was about 19, 20. I really loved the language; it was super melodic and really sexy.

I don't know whose sensibility I'm responding to. Until someone starts pushing against what they've inherited and starts making their own decisions about language, it's difficult.

I don't speak ... I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own.

I don't know what it is about the french language, it seems to be scared of coming out of the mouth so it comes out the nose instead.

I don't like reading music. It's like learning a language. You can't read music proficiently overnight. It takes time, it's boring work.

I don't read my reviews, I measure them.

I don't speak anything very well. The longer that you travel, you find out that you really don't even need to speak the language to get around and get things done, to live in those places. If you're somewhat resourceful and perceptive, you're pretty much going to know what's going on because human nature is human nature: they understand it, you understand it, and it works.

I don't think all poems need to be written in conversational language - those are often great poems but there should also be poems of incoherent bewilderment and muddled mystery.

I don't think I've ever quite grown out of it, actually. There was a point where I could recite some of those Elvish verses - which I've mercifully forgotten. But I can still, if really pushed, recite the text of the inside of the ruling ring in the language of Mordor.

I don't think there's any words in the English language to explain what it's -what it's like to- to sit on Texas death row and your thoughts are laying on that gurney, convicted but innocent and being put to death.

I don't use those terms [like Uncle Tom], and I would never speak in that kind of language.

I don't use coarse language very often. I have a larger vocabulary than that.

I do swear a lot, but the advantage is that having played abroad, I can choose a different language from the referee's.

I don't write in Portuguese. I write myself.

I do that in whatever language of the country I'm in, because the audience appreciate it.

I do try to incorporate particular rhythmic and generally sonic motifs I discover in music as such, and if one thinks of language in a narrow sense, that, perhaps, suggests a possibility for a rhythmic sensibility that enters poetry from outside of language.

If a language is corruptible, then a constitution written in that language is corruptible.

I dream of a language whose words, like fists, would fracture jaws.

I’d thought I knew what beauty was in women; but she’d surpassed all the language I had for it.

If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.

If any Englishman dedicated his life to securing the freedom of India, resisting tyranny and serving the land, I should welcome that Englishman as an Indian.

I feel that I speak the musical language.

If apple is the language of the future, then art must be the core.

I feel Mahatma Gandhi's non-violence was for the intelligent, educated British.It was not for those who don't understand this language.

I feel that music is more flexible than language and your song, or "piece" is only as flexible as your least flexible component.

If (early humans) weren't using and refining language I would like to know what they were doing with their autocatalytically increasing brains.

I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.

I feel more Irish than English. I feel freer than British, more visceral, with a love of language. Shot through with fire in some way. That's why I resist being appropriated as the current repository of Shakespeare on the planet. That would mean I'm part of the English cultural elite, and I am utterly ill-fitted to be.

I felt like I had reached the end of a period of life, where the work was jumping about and pushing something new every time. I wanted to dial it back and create a language that was stable and deep.

If God had so wished, he would have made all Indians speak with one language ... the unity of India has been and shall always be a unity in diversity.

I feel that Pride and Prejudice is an incredibly well constructed novel on every level. The dialogue is great. The character development is great. The plotting is great. The pacing is great. The language is great.

If I could have any power, I think flying would definitely be up there! Along with speaking every language.