Language Significance Quotes

The word courage - God, I love that word. Words are so important to me.

If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning.

There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.

Absolutely nothing is so important for a nation's culture as its language.

Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.

By diminishing the value of silence, publicity has also diminished that of language. The two are inseparable: knowing how to speak has always meant knowing how to keep silent, knowing that there are times when one should say nothing.

The only living language is the language in which we think and have our being.

Everything we say signifies; everything counts, that we put out into the world. It impacts on kids, it impacts on the zeitgeist of the time.

Language should fulfill your individual existence as a wholesome human being... Language should be more than just getting by.

My inspiration came especially in the 1950s through the Vienna Group founded by writer H.C. Artmann. It showed me that if you want to say something, you have to let the language itself say it, because language is usually more meaningful than the mere content that one wishes to convey.

Language helps develp life as surely as it reflects life. It is a most important part of our human condition.

We are in love with the word. We are proud of it. The word precedes the formation of the state. The word comes to us from every avatar of early human existence. As writers, we are obliged more than others to keep our lives attached to the primitive power of the word. From India, out of the Vedas, we still hear: On the spoken word, all the gods depend, all beasts and men; in the world live all creatures...The word is the name of the divine world.

Literature belongs first and foremost to the language in which it is being written.

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

My name is growing all the time, and I’ve lived a very long, long time; so my name is like a story. Real names tell you the story of the things they belong to in my language, in the Old Entish as you might say. It is a lovely language, but it takes a very long time to say anything in it, because we do not say anything in it, unless it is worth taking a long time to say, and to listen to.

Speech is a very important aspect of being human. A whisper doesn't cut it.

I write in words. And my words are Hebrew words.

Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.

I grew up speaking both languages, and for me that's really important.

Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier.

Speech is not a means in the service of an external end. It contains its own rule of usage, ethics, and view of the world, as a gesture sometimes bears the whole truth about a man.

Selfish-gene theory tells us nothing about the value of interacting through language.

Mannu - in Punjabi, it means 'mine.' My parents would call me that.

Alice thought to herself, 'Then there's no use in speaking.' The voices didn't join in this time, as she hadn't spoken, but to her great surprise, they all thought in chorus (I hope you understand what thinking in chorus means--for I must confess that I don't), 'Better say nothing at all. Language is worth a thousand pounds a word!

Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas.