Language Quotes

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.

The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.

A mind enclosed in language is in prison.

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

We have a president for whom English is a second language. He's like 'We have to get rid of dictators,' but he's pretty much one himself.

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

Body language is essential for an actress, even if you don't use your body in an athletic way. Just to be free, to use it like your voice. A body can be small and have incredible violence. A body talks.

We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has.

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation.

Realistically, English is a universal language; it's the number one language for music and for communicating with the rest of the world.

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

No language is rude that can boast polite writers.

The Catholic faith never changes. But the language and mode of manifesting this one faith can change according to peoples, times and places.

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

Human language... prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.

We speak five languages, ... The problem is, my second language is profanity.

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

I get along with all the women singers, but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly language.

To have another language is to possess a second soul.

An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.

Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.

Pauley Perrette: I was a criminal science fanatic and went to study it in college as well and I think that helped me on NCIS because I was comfortable with the language, I had studied criminal science in school for years.