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The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened.

Quotes by Gerard Manley Hopkins

The narrative of, 'You won an award, so you're going to skyrocket' - it's very emotive language but not necessarily true. I've definitely got auditions I wouldn't have got before, but it's not like jobs get rained down on you.

Quotes by Georgina Campbell

As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.

Quotes by George Will

Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.

Quotes by George Steiner

I have every reason to believe that an individual man or woman fluent in several tongues seduces, possesses, remembers differently according to his or her use of the relevant language.

Quotes by George Steiner

Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence.

Quotes by George Steiner

A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens.

Quotes by George Stigler

The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist in fictitious life an uncertain model to copy and unstable materials to work in.

Quotes by George Saintsbury

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

George Orwell

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

George Orwell

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

George Orwell

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

George Orwell

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.

George Orwell

Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.

Quotes by George Henry Lewes

The eyes have one language everywhere.

Quotes by George Herbert

What gives it its human character is that the individual through language addresses himself in the role of the others in the group and thus becomes aware of them in his own conduct.

Quotes by George Herbert Mead

Who of English speech, bred to the traditions of his race, does not recognize Hamlet in his 'inky cloak' at a glance? Not to know him would argue one's self untaught in the chief glories of his language.

Quotes by George Edward Woodberry

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

George Eliot

To what better purpose can a man's energy be devoted, and his talents, than the resuscitation of his country's language?

Quotes by George A. Moore

The ways in which language changes never ceases to interest me.

Quotes by Genevieve Valentine

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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