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“Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.”
Quote by -Noam Chomsky
“Take language, one of the few distinctive human capacities about which much is known. We have very strong reasons to believe that all possible human languages are very similar; a Martian scientist observing humans might conclude that there is just a single language, with minor variants. The reason is that the particular aspect of human nature that underlies the growth of language allows very restricted options. Is this limiting? Of course. Is it liberating? Also of course. It is these very restrictions that make it possible for a rich and intricate system of expression of thought to develop in similar ways on the basis of very rudimentary, scattered, and varied experience.”
Quote by -Noam Chomsky
“A human language is a system of remarkable complexity. To come to know a human language would be an extraordinary achievement for a creature not specifically designed to accomplish this task. A normal child acquires this knowledge on relatively slight exposure and without specific training. He can then quite effortlessly make use of an intricate structure of specific rules and guiding principles to convey his thoughts and feelings to others, arousing in them novel ideas and subtle perceptions and judgments.”
Quote by -Noam Chomsky
“Translated into ordinary human language this means that the development of capitalism has arrived at a stage when, although commodity production still “reigns” and continues to be regarded as the basis of economic life, it has in reality been undermined and the bulk of the profits go to the “geniuses” of financial manipulation.”
Quote by -Vladimir Lenin
All measure, and all language, I should pass, Should I tell what a miracle she was.
Quote by -John Donne
You have already achieved the English-Language poet's most important goal: you can read, Write and speak English well enough to understand this sentence.
Quote by -Stephen Fry
Negatively charged people sit on their "buts." Monitor your language. Listen to the way you respond to questions and situations.
Quote by -Les Brown
"The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect."
Quote by -Carl Sandburg
"Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people."
Quote by -William Butler Yeats
"Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own."
Quote by -Johann Von Goethe
"Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own."
Quote by -Johann Von Goethe
"Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks he can talk about language"
Quote by -Johann Von Goethe
"I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations."
Quote by -Samuel Johnson
"Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas."
Quote by -Samuel Johnson
"Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language."
Quote by -Samuel Johnson
"Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas: I wish, however, that the instrument might be less apt to decay, and that signs might be permanent, like the things they denote"
Quote by -Samuel Johnson
"Great Britain and the United States are nations separated by a common language."
Quote by -George Bernard Shaw
"I am very sorry, but I cannot learn languages. I have tried hard, only to find that men of ordinary capacity can learn Sanskrit in less time that it takes me to buy a German Dictionary"
Quote by -George Bernard Shaw
"England and America are two countries separated by the same language."
Quote by -George Bernard Shaw
"First of all he speaks the language which is a lot easier. I didn't speak English until I came to Pittsburgh and it took me awhile to start to feel comfortable with the language. That's a big advantage that he has,"
Quote by -Mario Lemieux
We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary
Quote by -Booker T Washington
“In fact, caucus, a word derived from the Algonquin languages, better reflected the layers of talking circles and the goal of consensus that were at the heart of governance.”
Quote by -Gloria Steinem
“Will we get to the point that learning sign language is a part of literacy? That knowing both an audible and a physical language is routine?”
Quote by -Gloria Steinem
“In many languages, even the word for human being is “one who goes on migrations.” Progress itself is a word rooted in a seasonal journey. Perhaps our need to escape into media is a misplaced desire for the journey.”
Quote by -Gloria Steinem
“Swiftboating enters the English language as a verb that means attacking strength instead of weakness. In feminist and other social justice contexts, this has long been called trashing, attacking leaders for daring to write, speak, or lead at all. Taking away the good is even more lethal than pointing out the bad. p.189”
Quote by -Gloria Steinem
“I think the revolutionary role of a writer is to make language that makes coalition possible, language that makes us see things in a new way.”
Quote by -Gloria Steinem
“In many languages, even the word for human being is “one who goes on migrations.” Progress itself is a word rooted in a seasonal journey. Perhaps our need to escape into media is a misplaced desire for the journey.”
Quote by -Gloria Steinem
“Will we get to the point that learning sign language is a part of literacy? That knowing both an audible and a physical language is routine?”
Quote by -Gloria Steinem
I love those moments on stage, on screen and in life when you dispense with language, when you sort of transcend it in a way, and certainly the experience of falling in love, I think, defies words, which is why poets, painters, musicians, actors have tried to describe that feeling, writers have just tried to put words to that.
Quote by -Cate Blanchett
That's why so many people want to play Hamlet: because it's a completely demarked role, and the actor playing it has to be prepared, through the language, to allow the audience to see into who he is.
Quote by -Cate Blanchett
“In fact, caucus, a word derived from the Algonquin languages, better reflected the layers of talking circles and the goal of consensus that were at the heart of governance.”
Quote by -Gloria Steinem
Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
On this platform of peace, we can create a language to translate ourselves to ourselves and to each other.
Quote by -Maya Angelou
I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.
Quote by -Maya Angelou
Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ear.
Quote by -Maya Angelou
"I can't relate to lazy people. We don't speak the same language. I don't understand you. I don't want to understand you.
Quote by -Kobe Bryant