Quotes by Language I've become obsessed with learning other languages in movies, because I was like, since I was like, but I learned how to box so why don't I just learn another language for a movie? Jake Gyllenhaal boxesobsessedlanguage My least favorite phrase in the English language is 'I don't care.' James Caan phrasescarelanguage Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. James Clerk Maxwell languagemayideas People remember Longfellow wrote Hiawatha, quite forget he was a Professor of Modern Languages! J. R. R. Tolkien languagerememberpeople I don't have children. I serve the world and I serve God by living as deep within my work as I can, reveling in the language of other times and putting it forth for the world. James Ellroy languagechildrenworld English poetry begins whenever we decide to say the modern English language begins, and it extends as far as we decide to say that the English language extends. James Fenton english-poetrymodernlanguage Many words are in a state of mutation, the pronunciation being unsettled even in the best society, a result that must often arise where language is as variable and undetermined as the English. James F. Cooper mutationvariableslanguage Some changes of language are to be regretted, as they lead to false inferences, and society is always a loser by mistaking names for things. James F. Cooper loserlanguagenames Thinking about language, while thinking _in_ language, leads to puzzles and paradoxes. James Gleick paradoxlanguagethinking It is worth the expense of youthful days and costly hours, if you learn only some words of an ancient language, which are raised out of the trivialness of the street, to be perpetual suggestions and provocations. It is not in vain that the farmer remembers and repeats the few Latin words which he has heard. Henry David Thoreau suggestionslanguagelatin My culture and my language have the right to exist, and no one has the authority to dismiss that. James Kelman languageauthorityculture One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot. James Joyce plotlanguageuse Our language, one of our most precious natural resources, deserves at least as much protection as our woodlands, streams and whooping cranes. James Lipton protectionlanguagenatural Praise is the symbol which represents sympathy, and which the mind insensibly substitutes for its recollection and language. James Mackintosh languagepraisemind Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere. James Martineau atmospherelanguageprayer When a man is born...there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets. James Joyce languagetryingmen english doesn't borrow from other languages. english follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar. James Nicoll pocketslanguagedark Oh, God, if I were sure I were to die tonight I would repent at once. It is the commonest prayer in all languages. James M. Barrie tonightlanguageprayer If the Irish programme did not insist on the Irish language I suppose I could call myself a nationalist. As it is, I am content torecognize myself an exile: and, prophetically, a repudiated one. James Joyce exilepoliticslanguage I hate women because they have brought into the currency of our language such expressions as "all righty" and "yes indeedy" and hundreds of others. James Thurber hatelanguageexpression«4445464748495051525354»
