Words are the physicians of the mind diseased.

Aeschylus

No instance exists of a person's writing two languages perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to him in his youth.

Thomas Jefferson

Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.

Rita Mae Brown

I understand a fury in your words, but not the words.

William Shakespeare

They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.

William Shakespeare

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below:Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

William Shakespeare

Use soft words and hard arguments.

English Proverb

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.

Samuel Johnson

We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.

Henry David Thoreau

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

William Butler Yeats

Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.

Russell Hoban

If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one.

Hebbel

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Words have a longer life than deeds.

Pindar

Languages are true analytical methods. Algebra, the means of expression which is the simplest, most exact and best adapted to its object, is both a language and an analytical method. In short, the art of reasoning can be reduced to a well-constructed.

Antoine Lavoisier

Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.

Angela Carter

If French is no longer the language of a power, it can be the language of a counter power.

Lionel Jospin

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in a language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

Thomas Hardy

A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.

Herman Melville

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Mark Twain

The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.

Lewis Thomas

Grasp the subject, the words will follow.

Cato the Elder

Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone.

Paul Tillich

A people without a language of its own, is only half a nation.

Thomas Osborne Davis

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

Sir Edward Appleton

Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.

Cesar Chavez

Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.

Charles Scribner, Jr.

Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public. Never clothe them in vulgar or shoddy attire.

George Crane

Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.

John Maynard Keynes

Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in a few words.

Aprocrypha

Language is the source of misunderstandings.

Antoine de Saint Exupery

Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

High thoughts must have high language.

Aristophanes

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.

William Penn

Deeds, not words shall speak me.

John Fletcher

Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast.

Friedrich Max Muller

For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.

Ingrid Bengis

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

Advertising practitioners are interpreters. But unlike foreign language interpreters, adpeople must constantly learn new languages. They must understand the language of each new product, and speak the language of each new target audience.

Jef I. Richards

If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.

Doug Larson

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.

Lily Tomlin

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Humphrey Davy

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.

Avram Noam Chomsky

They cannot make it say what they want it to say. And this is the beginning and the end of the case for retaining the old language: If the churches give it up, who will remember how to say what is said?

Clifford Longley

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

Sir Winston Churchill

Language is the tool of my trade -and I use them all - all the Englishes I grew up with.

Amy Tan

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

George Orwell

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.

George Orwell

Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.

William Bennett

England and America are two countries separated by a common language.

George Bernard Shaw

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

George Bernard Shaw

Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.

Galileo Galilei

We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.

Oscar Wilde

Language is memory and metaphor.

Storm Jameson

As was his language so was his life.

Seneca

It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an Airport' appear.

Douglas Adams

Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.

J. K. Rowling

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

Nelson Mandela

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'

Ronald Reagan

A filthy mouth will not utter decent language.

Chinese Proverb

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

John Erskine

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language, and forthwith it is something entirely different.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.

Samuel Johnson

'I am' is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that 'I do' is the longest sentence?

George Carlin

He didn't benefit from his own body language.

Tad Devine

There is somewhat of a lack of communication because of the language barrier.

Stephane Henchoz

This is very exciting for linguists, the language of London is changing.

Sue Fox

We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us.

Eric Hoffer

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

Joseph Brodsky

The only precautions we have right now are for language.

Joel Gallen

Change your language and you change your thoughts.

Karl Albrecht

The original goal of the committee was to clarify the existing language.

Rep Kathleen Curry

No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful, although English is becoming increasingly international. And travel. You have to have a global attitude.

Rupert Murdoch

Words may be false and full of art; Sighs are the natural language of the heart.

Thomas Shadwell

LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure.

Ambrose Bierce

The text is hard. The language is really odd. It forced a style on the production. I had gone in with a very different idea (about the play).

Cathia Pagotto

My cat speaks sign language with her tail.

Robert A. M. Stern

One of the boys' mothers helped with the [claymation] class, and that got him more interested in the language, ... He'd never been interested in speaking the language before.

Sandy Wilson

Will you let me talk? I'll have to learn the language all over again!

Stan Freberg

(Graduates) will read this and think 'The person is talking my language,'.

Margot Lester

We are talking about the same language. Really, to be fair to the man.

Musikari Kombo

We'll be working toward trying to interpret what this language was attempting to accomplish.

Susie Leonard

We are tied down to a language that makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.

Tom Stoppard

It's a language that is adaptive to emotions, ideas and feelings.

Katherine West

The language of resistance, of political discourse, is sometimes harsh. But a political speaker must be free to excite his audience.

William Moffitt

The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.

J. Michael Straczynski

If they're not happy with this new bill, then they need to become a legal citizen in my opinion. That is, learn our history, learn our government, learn our language and constitution and the American creed.

Scott Russell

When dual-language started, you had to have at least a 50/50 model. That's not happening in this school, and it is not happening here in Greeley.

Juan Verdugo

Talk the language of the employer -- which is the bottom line.

Ron Krannich

The English did many terrible things but one great thing you did was give us this extraordinary language ... and it works for us.

John Banville

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

Henry James

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

Leonard Cohen

Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Our superintendent has been there a fairly long time and seems to be doing well. There's certainly more trust in this superintendent and her abilities than there was when that language was adopted.

Tom Dugan

How do we acquire our first language? Fist we hear it, then we understand it, then we speak it, then we read it, then we write it.

Mary Cimbalnik

This [language and criticism] is unbecoming of the president of Syria.

Walid Jumblatt

I could tell by his body language that Andy was ready to save it.

Colin Lee

Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.

Gail Godwin

I'm not trying to stump anybody, ... It's the beauty of the language that I'm interested in.

Buddy Holly

All of that for using foul language and clearing a crime scene. They showed no compassion. They were only interested in the politics.

Frank Desalvo

Dance is the hidden language of the soul.

Martha Graham

I worked as hard as I could. I'm not fluent but I felt like I made real headway. The language is beautiful.

Lisa Williams

I am so far as I am aware not at all influenced by dramatists, expect for Shakespeare, who I have to say, it is impossible not to be influenced by if you hold language to be the major element of theatre.

Howard Barker

Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.

Henry James

The concepts of our shows that we've created here (in the U.S.) travel in China and around the world, even though the language is different.

Sumner Redstone

The people of South Sudan are ethnically different. They have their own language, and many of them are Christians. It is based on identity.

Anna Hadingham

English is the predominant business language.

Rob Marr

I feel his language is encouraging -- he seems to be discovering a reality, the same reality that I see. Now what we need to see is whether he will use the George Bush-style conviction to eliminate poverty.

Bruce S. Gordon

Suddenly, they were asking for dozens of redactions of the exact same language they'd cleared before.

Mark Zaid

It's really the artist who needs to find their language to communicate. Learn about how people tick -- it's always a new challenge.

Jonas Kage

We present the best of the independent foreign-language and Hollywood films. We increase the number of films available to the community.

Noel Hazard

No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.

Sam Rayburn

We're just getting to the point where we're having fun. Are we going to set carbon targets? Are we - god forbid in Arizona - going to do something about sprawl? We're going to do our best to get language in that will make a difference.

Roger Clark

How do you get around the language you are telling me to ignore?

Thomas Marten

That's scandalously reckless language for the speaker to be using.

Kevin Hall

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.

Sir William Osler

We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.

Buck Henry

Some cities and counties have included language that if you exceed expectations for an entire year, then another year is added to the contract.

Geoffrey Segal

We came out of the gate intuitively thinking that you have to be local to connect with the audience. That it wasn't only about the language and the music, but sensibility...even though the brand can be the same everywhere.

Bill Roedy

In our language arts instruction, we have taken a balance approach to literacy with strong focus on phonics.

Ray Morgan

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.

Anna Jameson

You still have the Iran case under discussion and I think Iran won't change their strong language.

Nahiro Niimura

The language of the early drafts didn't protect it.

Tom Florczak

If they're going to close somebody else, I'm hoping to get that business. With the favorable language, I would hope the company would consider us.

Joe Jerzewski

Freedom requires that you discover your own inner language - your own life rules - your own vision.

Zephyr Bloch jorgensen

If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.

Doug Larson

The eye-exam language creates a financial barrier to enter the public-school system and may bar some children from exercising their constitutional right to attend school.

Leanne Winner

Last year was like a different language. This year we all knew what we were doing.

Jake Hutton

This election should not be about race, about language, about coups, about an Indian or Fijian prime minister.

Mahendra Chaudhry

I definitely feel more connected, but I wish I could speak the language.

Danny Graves

It's not the same alphabet, and not at all the same as a romance language.

Debbie Guzzi

The English language was carefully, carefully cobbled together by three blind dudes and a German dictionary.

Dave Kellett

Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.

Jeremy Taylor

Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work.

Sir Joshua Reynolds

The language with most initiatives can be very confusing, and these are not easy issues to simplify.

Steve Kinney

Some new language has been added to these laws, and it will be up to the prosecutors in each county to relate to each agency how he or she interprets these laws.

Jimmy Morgan

We are alarmed that in 2006 some soldiers of the U.S. Army would embrace the language of hatred towards gays in the context of such an incident.

Chuck Bowen

We already have some specific language about proper behavior in general.

Sterling Ivey

It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word.

Kevin Kline

We're continuing with programs which we implemented last year and we'll continue to work with an English-language development consultant.

Carlomagno

He hears the language of his people.

Lloyd Richards

Music is the universal language of mankind.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.

Martin Buber

We are drafting the (contract) language now, and it wouldn't serve either party well to discuss it.

Ben Visnick

To so interpret the language of the act is to extract more sunbeams from cucumbers than did Gulliver's mad scientist.

Tom C. Clark

No one wants to see this happen. But the bottom line is they are going to have to say to us ?you are a partner in this district.? The language that cuts days and the language that changes our (pay increases) must be changed.

Joe Burns

A child's hearing is so critical for development. Even partial hearing loss can result in an impaired ability to speak and acquire language.

Alison Cassady

It's insensitive, inappropriate language, and it's conduct unbecoming a teacher.

Lauren Roberts

The play is more about their struggle, their battle, ... It's also playing with what language is and what language isn't. Is language what makes us human?

Stephen Sachs

Music is our second language.

Mike Saari

You can tell a lot by someone's body language.

Harvey Wolter

I think it's very fair and impartial, and I think it removes the confusion. I think it explains the issue at hand in very clear and concise language.

Robyn Bagley

My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.

Al Pacino

In the rich cities, an Internet user who spends $1 actually gets more out of their experience and finds more Web sites in their language.

Philip Howard

Remember that we all compete for that teacher that is trained in that language, and Texas and Arizona and California are there way before us.

Stan Kerr

The structure of language determines not only thought, but reality itself.

Avram Noam Chomsky

Language is the key to understanding people in an area.

Gerald Lampe

In clear language say, 'This may be nothing, but let me tell you what I saw.'

Kelly Mccann

Yeah, that's something I base my game on, is a lot of communication. Bobby does it very well, being a center back. Facundo is getting better with the (English) language, and he's stepping up as well.

Troy Perkins

When a language creates -- as it does -- a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.

Christopher Ricks

The winning story usually has a great story and they also have stylistically, a great language.

Brady Allen

Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more, you should never wish to do less.

Robert E. Lee

Language is, then, positively a distinctly human opening of and opening to the world: Not just a distinguishable or instrumental but a constitutive faculty.

Raymond Williams

If you want some information from those cultures, and you start in English without the greeting in the language of the culture you're in, you're liable to set up resistance before you even start.

David Solomons

They wanted to give themselves some flexibility, which they didn't have with that language.

Robert Macintosh

True creativity often starts where language ends.

Arthur Koestler

War is what happens when language fails.

Margaret Atwood

Language is a complex beast. At best, machine translation is a reasonable alternative to zero translation.

Don Depalma

What they're likely to do is take away the mild and gradual language from the statement.

Adam Le Mesurier

Emotions are the language of the soul.

Karla Mclaren

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.

Lucille Clifton

You're dealing with the kind of language very few people speak anymore.

Roy Gullane

Some may choose a separate domain or language for each language they are targeting.

Myriam Siftar

The dancer's hand movements are in ancient sign language.

Sarun Chan

Before, you would haul out the language books, and they would start groaning.

Kathy Deepe

We have hired employment lawyers to come up with model language for contracts. We are hopeful this will be emulated by others in the industry.

Karina Litvack

On the broader scale, we hope this event will contribute to their lifetime learning. It's becoming very important to know a foreign language in this world.

Dr. Tatiana Karmanova

For some of the kids, school is the only time to be exposed to the language. If we don't expose them to English while in school, they won't be getting it anywhere else.

Ranelle Lang

We have all this information that tells us when we learn something new, like a new language or a new instrument, we get the biggest bang and the brain grows.

Sandra Cusack

Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.

John Denham

That a lot of the language he was using about Kim and North Korea would be counterproductive to getting them back to six-party talks.

Thomas Hubbard

Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.

Alan Moore

The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God.

Charles Stanley

The language was ill-advised. In the opinion of the deputy chiefs, (the change) was not good policy and they directed that revisions be made.

Don Aaron

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.

Robert Benchley

Sign language is for everyone.

Kathy Clark

There are moments in life that are beyond language.

Stephen Sachs

He will get a chance to adapt this week and start to get used to a different language.

Mike Shanahan

We decide certain words aren't so bad anymore. It's reflected in our everyday language use.

Carol Bruess

Because of our kinship in suffering, our channels of contact have always been charged with the language of the heart.

Bill Wilson

He uses language that would make your hair curl.

William S. Gilbert

I would refer you to the language of the law, ... It depends on the circumstances.

Janet Reno

This initiative fits in perfectly with our program because it fights the language of war with the language of creativity.

Luz Piedad Herrera

Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb.

Italo Calvino

We have no doubt that the clear and unambiguous language of [state law] encompasses undocumented aliens.

Robert Bell

The body language of the salespeople is very important in showing friendliness.

Minjeong Kim

It was much worse than the so-called negro. It's about a triple form of discrimination -race, language and culture.

Dan Klores