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My ideal vacation isn't about complex maneuvers. I want to arrive somewhere foreign where I don't speak the language, go hiking, then plop down in a sunny square, have drinks, read a book, and see what happens.

Quotes by Rosecrans Baldwin

Go learn the language. Go take some acting lessons. Start from zero like everybody else.

Quotes by Roselyn Sanchez

I use language to pierce the brain. If I spoke like everybody else spoke, it would just dull everything.

Quotes by Rose McGowan

In the British embassy in Afghanistan in 2008, an embassy of 350 people, there were only three people who could speak Dari, the main language of Afghanistan, at a decent level. And there was not a single Pashto speaker.

Quotes by Rory Stewart

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

Quotes by Ronald Reagan

In my career, I played for four different teams in a lot of different systems, and it's like learning another language.

Quotes by Ron Jaworski

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

Quotes by Romesh Gunesekera

The language of freedom-fighting was so co-opted by the baby boomers in order to express their now-hopelessly compromised ideologies that no other generation could emulate it without a smirk. This has created an apathetic generation in the West, with young...

Quotes by Romola Garai

Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.

Quotes by Roman Jakobson

In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a sort of accompaniment to the signified.

Quotes by Roman Jakobson

Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study of language.

Quotes by Roman Jakobson

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.

Quotes by Roland Barthes

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Quotes by Roland Barthes

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.

Quotes by Roland Barthes

The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing.

Quotes by Roger Babson

The English language has 112 words for deception, according to one count, each with a different shade of meaning: collusion, fakery, malingering, self-deception, confabulation, prevarication, exaggeration, denial.

Quotes by Robin Marantz Henig

I love period dramas and language, but I love comedy as well.

Quotes by Robin McLeavy

The language of violence that many whites use to describe anti-racist endeavors is not without significance, as it is another example of how white fragility distorts reality.

Quotes by Robin DiAngelo

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

Quotes by Robert Smithson

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

Quotes by Robert Smithson

Frequently Asked Questions

What do these Language quotes explore?
This set looks at the limits of ordinary language for describing science, the case for more scientific language in public discourse, feeling outmatched by the sheer size of the English language, and wanting to master the technical language of a craft like directing. If you like exploring how words shape meaning, so is our Like collection.
Is there a quote about language struggling to describe science?
Yes — one quote says, "The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But we cannot speak about atoms in ordinary language."
Is there a quote calling for more scientific language in public life?
There is. One quote argues, "More scientific language and less diplomatic rhetoric may make this world even better." For more ideas along these lines, see our More collection.
Is there a quote about the English language being hard to keep up with?
Yes — one quote admits, "Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head." Shakespeare is famous for exploring love as much as language, and you can see more of that in our Love collection.
Is there a quote about wanting to master a craft's technical language?
Yes — one quote shares, "The producing thing has come quite naturally to me. I feel like for directing, I would like to be more technically-savvy. I want to have the language under my belt." For more reflections framed in first person, see our Me collection.

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