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Playing golf is like learning a foreign language.

Quotes by Henry Longhurst

See it all. See it fairly. Be truthful, be sensible and be careful with language. When nothing depends on man, everything depends on him.

Quotes by Henry Grunwald

Since 'concepts' are closely bound up with language, concept art is a kind of art of which the material is language.

Quotes by Henry Flynt

There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.

Quotes by Henri Bergson

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.

Quotes by Henri Matisse

Denmark is like a secret little place with its own special language.

Quotes by Helena Christensen

It's true and it's easily said that language is material, and something does materialise as one writes.

Quotes by Heinrich Boll

For me, at least, much of the German I see and hear sounds stranger than Swedish, a language of which I unfortunately understand very little.

Quotes by Heinrich Boll

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.

Quotes by Heinrich Heine

The language has got to be fully alive - I can't bear dull, flaccid writing myself and I don't see why any reader should put up with it.

Quotes by Helen Dunmore

I was always influenced by language.

Quotes by Helen Dunmore

We need to know math to be a good scientist, but math is a language, and we need to learn the language because that's the language of science.

Quotes by Heidi Hammel

I don't have a fondness for movies, which leaves me stranded when it comes to cocktail party chat, but I prefer language and books.

Quotes by Heather Mac Donald

What's exciting about theatre is observing human behaviour. You're constantly making judgments about body language, the physical, the emotional, the intellectual.

Quotes by Hattie Morahan

If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.

Quotes by Haruki Murakami

In 1989, I was awarded the Von Neumann Prize in Operations Research Theory by the Operations Research Society of America and The Institute of Management Sciences. They cited my works in the areas of portfolio theory, sparse matrix techniques and...

Quotes by Harry Markowitz

I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language.

Quotes by Harry Mathews

The form language used by the ancient Egyptians in their structures is minimal.

Quotes by Harry Seidler

I want to create a kind of new monster language for kids to play with, pick up, and incorporate into their own vocabularies.

Quotes by Harry Knowles

The language is always powerful in Shakespeare, but with 'Antony and Cleopatra,' the speeches are so big and muscular and rich - exhausting to speak, actually.

Quotes by Harriet Walter

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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