All Quotes

Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective.
‐‐ Kenneth L. Pike

Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.
‐‐ Humphry Davy

Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.
‐‐ Benjamin Whorf

Language is one component of the human cognitive capacity which happens to be fairly amenable to enquiry. So we know a good deal about that.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law.
‐‐ June Jordan

Language is possible due to a number of cognitive and physical characteristics that are unique to humans but none of which that are unique to language. Coming together they make language possible. But the fundamental building block of language is community.
‐‐ Daniel Everett

Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around.
‐‐ Howard Nemerov

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
‐‐ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Language is the dress of thought.
‐‐ Samuel Johnson

Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape.
‐‐ Mason Cooley

Language is the house of the truth of Being.
‐‐ Martin Heidegger

Language is the means by which we negotiate our relationship with time.
‐‐ Romesh Gunesekera

Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
‐‐ J. M. G. Le Clezio

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
‐‐ Karl Kraus

Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.
‐‐ Aimee Bender

Language is too complex for a computer to understand. It's not going to be able to make sense of what people are saying en masse. We need a new type of discipline that puts together computer scientists and social scientists, who can add context to the situation.
‐‐ Noreena Hertz

Language is wild - you can't fence it or tell it what to do - and it's the same with people. Even under the worst excesses of Stalinism or consumerism, the human spirit will still express itself.
‐‐ Jay Griffiths

Language is wine upon the lips.
‐‐ Virginia Woolf

Language just gradually came in, one or two stressed words a time. Before then, I would just scream. I couldn't talk. I couldn't get my words out. So the only way I could tell someone what I wanted was to scream. If I didn't want to wear a hat, the only way I knew to communicate was screaming and throwing it on the floor.
‐‐ Temple Grandin

Language kills, and inflamed rhetoric of the kind that spews almost daily from the lips of Donald Trump, Ben Carson, Mike Huckabee, and others running for public office in this country should be condemned.
‐‐ Jay Parini

Language leads a double life - and so does the novelist. You chat with family and friends, you attend to your correspondence, you consult menus and shopping lists, you observe road signs, and so on. Then you enter your study, where language exists in quite another form - as the stuff of patterned artifice.
‐‐ Martin Amis

Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
‐‐ Ben Jonson

Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification.
‐‐ Robert Smithson

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.
‐‐ George Orwell

Language patterns solidify at 10, 11, 12, so I was able to learn English fairly easily, with no accent. I didn't do speech or vocal work to get rid of the German accent; I was just lucky.
‐‐ Peter Hermann

Language pedants hew to an oral tradition of shibboleths that have no basis in logic or style, that have been defied by great writers for centuries, and that have been disavowed by every thoughtful usage manual.
‐‐ Steven Pinker

Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions.
‐‐ John Langdon

Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence.
‐‐ Robert Smithson

Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head.
‐‐ Robert Smithson

Language that is designed to dehumanize has consequences.
‐‐ Maajid Nawaz

Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising.
‐‐ Robert Smithson

Language usage always has a political context.
‐‐ Jackson Katz

Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information.
‐‐ Dee Hock

Language-wise, my mom and dad's dialect, they're pretty obscure. It's Chinese, but not your traditional Chinese, like Cantonese or Mandarin. It wasn't something that I got to use very much growing up. We eventually just spoke English around the house.
‐‐ James Wan

Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with irregularities, quirks, and words like 'knight.'
‐‐ Joshua Foer

Languages are true analytical methods.
‐‐ Antoine Lavoisier

Laos is a country where everything is eaten. When I came back, I would find myself chopping parsley and thinking: 'Why am I throwing these stems away? They're perfectly edible.'
‐‐ Ruth Reichl

Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.
‐‐ Anatole Broyard

Laquan McDonald is a wake-up call to all of us. It's a reminder there's a lot broken.
‐‐ Rahm Emanuel

Lara Croft is such a strong individual, she's very driven, she doesn't need a man, she's speaks her own mind, and that she's in control of her own life. It's a lot of what women want and have.
‐‐ Jan de Bont

Lara's done very well recently and I never had any doubts about the abilities of Lara or Waugh.
‐‐ Sachin Tendulkar

Large areas of the Gulf have escaped being scraped by trawls, crushed by more than 40,000 miles of pipelines, or displaced by one of 50,000 oil and gas wells drilled since the middle of the 20th century. Some places have been deliberately protected.
‐‐ Sylvia Earle

Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.
‐‐ Van Morrison

Large-caps were safe in 1996, '97, '98. Everybody was buying index funds and Nifty Fifty funds. As long as money was pouring in, it was great.
‐‐ Louis Navellier

Large companies and government agencies have a lot to protect and therefore are not willing to take big risks. A large company taking a risk can threaten its stock price. A government agency taking a risk can threaten congressional investigation.
‐‐ Peter Diamandis

Large companies are not going to disappear. Multinational companies with tens of thousands of employees are not going to disappear. In fact, many of them are getting larger because they can benefit from economies of scale.
‐‐ Daniel H. Pink

Large companies cannot finance political parties as their shareholders and employees have different political views.
‐‐ Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Large corporations and unions know the power of being big enough to bargain for better rates.
‐‐ Greg Walden

Large corporations have the ability to distract people with controversy that just distracts people from what's great about the movie or what works about the movie.
‐‐ Peter Landesman