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I learned just recently, in fact, that a lot of people who read do not form a visual image from what they're reading. They just don't. They follow the events and get the resonance with the language, but they have...

Quotes by Diana Gabaldon

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.

Quotes by Derek Walcott

My delight in things is definitely Caribbean. It has to do with landscape and food. The fact that my language may have a metrical direction is because that's the shape of the language. I didn't make that shape.

Quotes by Derek Walcott

The country that I was coming from, the island I was in, hadn't been written about, really. So I thought that I virtually had it all to myself, including the language that was spoken there, which was a French Creole,...

Quotes by Derek Walcott

You would get some fantastic syntactical phenomena. You would hear people talking in Barbados in the exact melody as a minor character in Shakespeare. Because here you have a thing that was not immured and preserved and mummified, but a...

Quotes by Derek Walcott

If music goes out of language, then you are in bad trouble.

Quotes by Derek Walcott

If you talk about language in the Caribbean, you must relate it to history.

Quotes by Derek Walcott

Metaphor is embodied in language.

Quotes by Dennis Potter

I can't recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open - any discussion on the matter tended to mention languages whose inventors tried to keep tight control, and consequent ill fate.

Quotes by Dennis Ritchie

The first phase of C was - really, it was two phases in short succession of, first, some language changes from B, really adding the type structure without too much change in the syntax, and doing the compiler. The second...

Quotes by Dennis Ritchie

I believe so deeply in the primacy of language, in lifting your prose to the highest level you're capable of and making your words symphonic.

Quotes by Dennis Lehane

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Quotes by Denis Diderot

In the plays - that's where I go crazy. But my prose has a much lighter touch; it's not trying to thrill with language, just to be more truthful. I'm not concerned with the accuracy of anything. We don't get...

Quotes by Denis Johnson

Physical expression was my first language: Before I was an actor, I was a dancer, an acrobat, a mime and a street performer.

Quotes by Denis Lavant

I got my dog back, in African-American language, your dog means your passion, your fire.

Quotes by Deion Sanders

Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information.

Quotes by Dee Hock

Ability to speak the majority language is not just important for inclusion; it is important for minorities to be able to claim their rights and entitlements.

Quotes by Deeyah Khan

The problem with Muslim women is less that we cannot speak the language, but that no one listens to us.

Quotes by Deeyah Khan

For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.

Quotes by Deborah Tannen

We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has.

Quotes by Deborah Tannen

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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