Quotes by Language Everybody has a language or code that they use with their wife or their girlfriend or boyfriend or what have you. It's a language aside from the language they have with strangers. Ben Gibbard girlfriendwifelanguage Our language for describing emotions is very crude... that's what music is for, I guess. Ben Goertzel music-isemotionlanguage Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money. Ben Jonson stampsmistresslanguage A misspelled word is probably an alias for some desperate call for aid, which is bound to fail. Ben Marcus desperatefailinglanguage I like that confusion when people are speaking in the same language but still can't understand each other. It's also usually my experience of being in America - when I speak no one can understand what I'm saying. Ben Wheatley confusionlanguagepeople Finality is not the language of politics. Benjamin Disraeli politicspoliticallanguage No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language. Benjamin Disraeli languagewritingdiscovery Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our Language or Customs, any more than they can acquire our Complexion. Benjamin Franklin pennsylvanialanguagealiens Knowledge and Experience do not necessarily speak the same language. Benjamin Hoff knowledge-and-experiencelanguagespeak All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic. Benjamin Jowett effortcompromiselanguage Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it. Benjamin Lee Whorf defininglanguagewriting A change in language can transform our appreciation of the cosmos. Benjamin Lee Whorf cosmoslanguageappreciation Speech is the best show a man puts on. Benjamin Lee Whorf speechlanguagemen The most meaningless term in the English language is "I take full responsibility." When a politician utters those words it means absolutely nothing. Bernard Goldberg languageresponsibilitymean You can't eat language but it eases thirst. Bernard Malamud thirstlanguageease I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought. Bernard Malamud afterthoughtlanguageflower We're persecuted in the most civilized languages. Bernard Malamud persecutedcivilizedlanguage French is a language that makes those who speak it both calm and dynamic. Bernard Pivot calmlanguagequiet They place great stress on the clarity of our language for expressing nuances and showing subtleties. Bernard Pivot nuancestresslanguage There is a pride in speaking this language. Bernard Pivot languagepridetalking«7891011121314151617»
