(1563 quotes found)
“"I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence?”
George Carlin
“I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out”
Katherine Dunn
“Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“You must feel what you're singing, not just have a good presentation of the language.”
Cecilia Bartoli
“Music is the soul of language.”
Max Heindel
“Women speak two languages - one of which is verbal.”
William Shakespeare
“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
George Orwell
“Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.”
Albert Einstein
“Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
