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The Germans and I no longer speak the same language.

Quotes by Marlene Dietrich

My interest is in how meaning is communicated via language, and I believe the shape, positioning, even the color of the language has an effect on meaning.

Quotes by Mark Z. Danielewski

Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.

Quotes by Mark Strand

I taught high school English for 24 years. I always teach my students to appreciate the beauty of language and to write poetically.

Quotes by Mark Takano

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

Mark Twain

CIOs have earned a strategic seat at the table, but now they've got to hold that seat - and the only way they can do that is to converse in the language of business value and business benefits and business...

Quotes by Mark V. Hurd

It might be inevitable that we have to confront the idea that our destiny is to be one world with one language.

Quotes by Mark Pagel

Each of you possesses the most powerful, dangerous and subversive trait that natural selection has ever devised. It's a piece of neural audio technology for rewiring other people's minds. I'm talking about your language.

Quotes by Mark Pagel

Image is an international language.

Quotes by Marjane Satrapi

Keeping with our family tradition of sending their children abroad for a couple of years, and aware of my interest in chemistry, I was sent to a boarding school in Switzerland when I was 11 years old, on the assumption...

Quotes by Mario J. Molina

The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost and what is gained in the linguistic transition.

Quotes by Marilyn Hacker

The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.

Quotes by Marilyn Hacker

There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for example, a workshop can liberate the students' use of the vocabulary they're acquiring.

Quotes by Marilyn Hacker

Americans can pretty much sing anything, whereas foreign singers are often limited in style, language, even composer.

Quotes by Marilyn Horne

Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage.

Quotes by Marilyn vos Savant

When I went to college, I majored in American literature, which was unusual then. But it meant that I was broadly exposed to nineteenth-century American literature. I became interested in the way that American writers used metaphoric language, starting with...

Quotes by Marilynne Robinson

I grew up in a house where language was appreciated and cared about. I'm sure that, although I wasn't aware of it at the time, it must have made an impression on me.

Quotes by Marian Seldes

I write on a visual canvas, 'seeing' a scene in my thoughts before translating it into language, so I'm a visual junkie.

Quotes by Marianne Wiggins

The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!

Quotes by Maria Montessori

The child, merely by going on with his life, learns to speak the language belonging to his race. It is like a mental chemistry that takes place in the child.

Quotes by Maria Montessori

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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