Edward Sapir Quotes

Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.

One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.

You couldn't have human society without language.

Language is a social art.

Speech is civilization itself.

A different language is a different vision of life.

I think cinema has this beautiful component. It's a universal language.

Translation is at best an echo.

I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture.

Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.

Language allows one to crack the code of culture

Language and identity are so fundamentally intertwined. You peel back all the layers in terms of what we wear and what we eat and all the things that mark us, and in the end, what we have are our words.

'Arrival' talks very little about language and how to precisely dissect a foreign language. It's more a film on intuition and communication by intuition, the language of intuition.

My music was about travelling a lot and connecting with other people, and English is the voice of travelling.

As long as there are living human beings, there will be language and stories.

To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.

Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don't have a passport.

Her accent's funny, different from mine, different from anyone in Prentisstown's. Her lips make different kinds of outlines for the letters, like they're swooping down on them from above, pushing them into shape, telling them what to say. In Prentisstown, everyone talks like they're sneaking up on their words, ready to club them from behind.

Esperanto was a very useful language, because wherever you went, you found someone to speak with.

I am fascinated by language in daily life: the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth.

Languages are the keys of science.

Language is also a place of struggle.

Language can't solve everything, of course, but it does carry our dreams and our ideas.

Translation is the circulatory system of the world's literatures

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.