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Many Indians and Israelis seem set to elect, with untroubled consciences, those who speak the language of torturers and terrorists. More disturbingly, these corrupted democracies may increasingly prove the norm rather than the exception.

Quotes by Pankaj Mishra

I think cinema has this beautiful component. It's a universal language.

Quotes by Paolo Sorrentino

Maybe Trump isn't a racist in private. But he's sure acting like one in public. And his body language is corroborating the evidence.

Quotes by Pamela Meyer

There is simply no room for racial, hurtful language spoken to your colleagues or anyone else.

Quotes by Pam Bondi

Neither Aristotelian nor Russellian rules give the exact logic of any expression of ordinary language; for ordinary language has no exact logic.

Quotes by P. F. Strawson

A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.

Quotes by Oswald Chambers

Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization.

Quotes by Orson F. Whitney

The easiest way for me to tell someone what I do is to say that I'm a non-musician who practises and produces music. I don't have a theoretical language for music. I have this abstract dream language.

Quotes by Oneohtrix Point Never

The problem with depicting what's weird and what isn't is that it's got to this point of near total oversaturation. There's definitely a threshold at which that language and experience becomes tedious. How can something be weird if everything is...

Quotes by Oneohtrix Point Never

Understanding of natural language is what sometimes is called 'AI complete,' meaning if you can really do that, you can probably solve artificial intelligence.

Quotes by Oren Etzioni

Parallel cinema has not made an effort to communicate in a language the other person understands.

Quotes by Om Puri

I don't feel restricted by the language: I feel more free.

Quotes by Olivier Martinez

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

If your country is wiped off the map and your language is banned, if your literature has to serve a cause, it becomes, however brilliant, rather hard to travel.

Quotes by Olga Tokarczuk

State television, from which a significant number of Poles get their news, consistently smears, in aggressive and defamatory language, the political opposition and anyone who thinks differently from the ruling party.

Quotes by Olga Tokarczuk

Sometimes I wonder how my life would have worked out if my books had been translated into English sooner, because English is the language that's spoken worldwide, and when a book appears in English it is made universal, it becomes...

Quotes by Olga Tokarczuk

The English book world is relatively closed to translation, so only a small amount of foreign language work can come in.

Quotes by Olga Tokarczuk

The charge of being ambiguous and indefinite may be brought against every human composition, and necessarily arises from the imperfection of language. Perhaps no two men will express the same sentiment in the same manner and by the same words;...

Quotes by Oliver Ellsworth

The object of poetic activity is essentially language: whatever his beliefs and convictions, the poet is more concerned with words than with what these words designate.

Quotes by Octavio Paz

Abstract painting seeks to be a pure pictorial language, and thus attempts to escape the essential impurity of all languages: the recourse to signs or forms that have meanings shared by everyone.

Quotes by Octavio Paz

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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