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What is it that really makes us, us? It's our collective intelligence. It's our ability to write things down, our language and our consciousness. -- Louise Leakey
I think we're still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate. -- Jane Goodall
If our language, our programs, our creations are not strongly present in the new media, the young generation of our country will be economically and culturally marginalized. -- Jacques Chirac
So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to make films without words. -- Godfrey Reggio
Duty is the sublimest word in our language -- Robert E. Lee
An entire mythology is stored within our language. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Never impose your language on people you wish to reach. -- Abbie Hoffman
We should never lower our dignity by lowering our language. -- Ted E. Brewerton
To me, the most obscene word in our language is celibacy. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
If you can not master your language you must be it's slave. -- Jenny Weber
Bunny boiler is now part of our language, and I'm proud of that. -- Glenn Close
The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition. -- Elliot W. Eisner
Because without our language, we have lost ourselves. Who are we without our words? -- Melina Marchetta
We should constantly use the most common, little, easy words which our language affords. -- John Wesley
They call our language the mother tongue because the father seldom gets to speak. -- George W. Bush
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The slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts. -- George Orwell
Under the tropic is our language spoke, And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our yoke. -- Edmund Waller
We have this enormous connection to the living world that is reflected in our language. -- Jean Berko Gleason
Loving your language means a command of its vocabulary beyond the level of the everyday. -- John McWhorter
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Mind your language, count your words, mean what you say coz otherwise people no longer stay -- Ameya Agrawal
They place great stress on the clarity of our language for expressing nuances and showing subtleties. -- Bernard Pivot
They took away our land, our language, and our religion; but they could never harness our tongues... -- Brendan Behan
All cartoonists are linked together in the world - it's our language, one we can communicate in. -- Liza Donnelly
Half of us are partly German! Half our language and culture, generally, in Anglo-Saxon terms, is German. -- Martin Freeman
Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you. -- J. C. Ryle
As sheer casual reading matter, I still find the English dictionary the most interesting book in our language. -- Albert J. Nock
I think of the irony that in our language [Nepali] the word for love can also mean deceit. -- Jane Wilson-Howarth
One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.' -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
We live at the level of our language. Whatever we can articulate we can imagine or understand or explore. -- Ellen Gilchrist
Where our language suggests a body and there is none: there, we should like to say, is a spirit. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
No two of us learn our language alike, nor, in a sense, does any finish learning it while he lives. -- Willard Van Orman Quine
It seems to me that if there were any logic to our language, trust would be a four letter word. -- Tom Cruise
To call the world God is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
We think in language. The quality of our thoughts and ideas can only be as good as the quality of our language. -- George Carlin
Lets take the best of our ideas from Global Drucker Forum, and the best of our language, and then focus and clarify. -- Clayton Christensen
Whoever said Marriage is a 50-50 proposition laid the foundation for more divorce fees than any other short sentence in our language -- Austin Elliot
Abstraction is itself an abstract word and has no single meaning ... Every word in our language is abstract, because it represents something else. -- Eric Maisel
Similarly, although we use prepositional phrases when we write, we apparently don't write more effectively when we can label our language in these ways. -- Lucy Calkins
That term, 'David and Goliath,' has entered our language as a metaphor for improbable victories by some weak party over someone far stronger. -- Malcolm Gladwell
They who in folly or mere greed Enslaved religion, markets, laws, Borrow our language now and bid Us to speak up in freedom's cause. -- Cecil Day-Lewis
You have this preconceived notion of him [Sly Stallone] as a big, tough guy, but he speaks four languages and he likes to watercolor. -- Rachael Leigh Cook
You would not serve junk food at a banquet, and your book must be a banquet. Get your language from Swift , not from Shopsy's. -- Robertson Davies
When you want to make a film abroad, you need producers and people who support you. You need a team that speaks your language. -- Bahman Ghobadi
If our language and culture are not passed on to immigrants, where will they learn to value integrity in government and the rule of law? -- Paul Craig Roberts
I hate women because they have brought into the currency of our language such expressions as "all righty" and "yes indeedy" and hundreds of others. -- James Thurber
People who do not speak our language very well do complain of feeling rebuffed by French people, who can sometimes be impatient, or even intolerant. -- Bernard Pivot
We are so used to not having kids around [on Twilight] that we had to really make an effort to try and edit our language. -- Ashley Greene
My mother always told me I had to do 100 times better than a man. I had to work hard at maths, and learn four languages. -- Marjane Satrapi
However well equipped our language, it can never be forearmed against all possible cases that may arise and call for description: fact is richer than diction. -- J. L. Austin
As strange as it may sound, our experience of a Chagall painting actually depends to some extent on whether our language has a word for blue. -- Guy Deutscher
Language is the writer's only tool - we really don't have anything else - but our language contains within it our entire experience of the world. -- Alice McDermott
Faith is the physical description of God. That's what He is. It's the only word we have in our language to accurately describe His physical form. -- Jim Rowe
Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less. -- Robert E. Lee
A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
There is Indian time and white man's time. Indian time means never looking at the clock. ... There is not even a word for time in our language. -- Mary Brave Bird
If our language, our programs, our creations are not strongly present in the new media, the young generation of our country will be economically and culturally marginalized." -- Jacques Chirac
Change is legitimate and inevitable, for our language is a mighty river, picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there, but growing ever wider and richer. -- Robert MacNeil
We cannot alter the essential shape of a single letter without at the same time destroying the familiar printed face of our language, and thereby rendering it useless. -- Jan Tschichold
We can move no faster than the evolution of our language, and this is certainly part of what the psychedelics are about: they force the evolution of language. -- Terence McKenna
The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power. -- Thomas Babington Macaulay
The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power. -- Thomas Babington Macaulay
The Greeks understood the mysterious power of the below things. They are the ones who gave us one of the most beautiful words in our language, the word enthusiasm. -- Louis Pasteur
Why on earth do we want closer connection with England? We have little in common with English people except our language. We are fast becoming an entirely different people. -- Henry Lawson
Sometimes when your child talks, your friends cannot understand what he says; but the mother understands very well. So if our prayer comes from the heart, God understands our language. -- Dwight L. Moody
As our language wanes and dies, the golden legends of the far-off centuries fade and pass away. No one sees their influence upon culture; no one sees their educational power. -- Douglas Hyde
Americans don't care what your language is, your race is, whatever. Everyone is there to do their own thing and be successful. I wish people in Britain would be more positive. -- Vinnie Jones
We cannot evolve faster than our language. The edge of being is the edge of meaning, and somehow we have to push the edge of meaning. We have to extend it. -- Terence McKenna
In Europe, kids learn at least four languages before they're out of high school. But our education system is so underfunded, they go to school to buy heroin and an AK-47. -- Eddie Griffin
Is there not something wanted, Miss Price, in our language - a something between compliments and - and love - to suit the sort of friendly acquaintance we have had together? -- Jane Austen
The painting cannot be laid aside even for a day; for it takes constant work to keep 'flowing,' but above that it takes concentration, which in our language is consecration. -- Morris Graves
The bible is not a religious experience for me. This book bundles together the entire culture of Judaism: our language, our history, our geography. God is merely a byproduct of the bible. -- Tommy Lapid
MISCREANT, n. A person of the highest degree of unworth. Etymologically, the word means unbeliever, and its present signification may be regarded as theology's noblest contribution to the development of our language. -- Ambrose Bierce
There is something powerful about singing to God as an act of worship, but it is time to reframe our perspective and our language to genuinely encompass all of life as worship. -- Erwin McManus
Our thoughts, our language, are always at a distance from whatever they're trying to describe. We have other kinds of languages, like mathematics, like music, like art, but there's always that gap. -- John Edgar Wideman
Often I am struck in amazement about a word: I suddenly realize that the complete arbitrariness of our language is but a part of the arbitrariness of our own world in general. -- Christian Morgenstern
After we have made our requests known to Him, our language should be, "Thy will be done". I would a thousand times rather that Gods' will should be done than my own. -- Dwight L. Moody
Art is one of the dirtiest words in our language; it's mucked up with all kinds of meanings. There's the art of plumbing; there's the art of almost anything that you can say. -- Wayne Thiebaud
I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it. -- Coco Chanel
Even if you didn't see the movie, you'd see two words you'd never seen put together before - comedy and Muslim. Comedy is friendly - it's the least offensive word in our language. -- Albert Brooks
In our language rhyme is a barrel. A barrel of dynamite. The line is a fuse. The line smoulders to the end and explodes; and the town is blown sky-high in a stanza. -- Vladimir Mayakovsky
Stop worrying about the 'dumbing down' of our language by bloggers, tweeters, cableheads and MSM thumbsuckers engaged in a 'race to the bottom' of the page by little minds confined to little words. -- William Safire
Each of you possesses the most powerful, dangerous and subversive trait that natural selection has ever devised. It's a piece of neural audio technology for rewiring other people's minds. I'm talking about your language. -- Mark Pagel
Synergy is the only word in our language that means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the separately observed behaviors of any of the system's separate parts or any subassembly of the system's parts. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
If we lived in a democratic state our language would have to hurtle, fly, curse, and sing, in all the common American names, all the undeniable and representative and participating voices of everybody here. -- June Jordan
By Anglicising ourselves we have thrown away with a light heart the best claim we have upon the world's recognition of us as a seperate nationality...the notes of nationality, our language and customs. -- Douglas Hyde
The other creatures with which we share this world have their rights too, but not speaking our language, they have no voice, no vote; it is our moral duty to take care of them. -- Roger Tory Peterson
Living in Supreme Influence, your language is neutral and/or moving toward your vision rather than moving away. In other words, you speak about what you do want, not about what you don't want. -- Niurka
The arts make vivid the fact that words do not, in their literal form or number, exhaust what we can know. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition. -- Elliot W. Eisner
You know, when it was done originally, they always had to fight to keep it going at the end of each season. Now, The Odd Couple has become part of our language and culture. -- Brett Somers
It's really sad for me that in the United States the Latino community is losing its culture and language, especially among kids born here - a lot of them can't even speak our language. -- Romeo Santos
The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-granted by the persons who used it as our language is by ourselves. Nothing strange about it. -- Robert Fitzgerald
As we embrace the American dream and the freedoms it represents, we must also ensure that those who wish to enjoy those freedoms become a part of our society and learn to speak our language. -- Bobby Jindal
We live in our language like blind men walking on the edge of an abyss. This language is laden with future catastrophes. The day will come when it will turn against those who speak it. -- Gershom Scholem
Keep your language. Love its sounds, its modulation, its rhythm. But try to march together with men of different languages, remote from your own, who wish like you for a more just and human world. -- Hélder Câmara
The Book of the Heart provides a fresh perspective on the influence of the book as artifact on our language and culture. Reading this book broadens our appreciation of the relationship between things and ideas. -- Henry Petroski
We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be 'revolutionary' but not transformative. -- Adrienne Rich
I AM happy". They understood what we english people have long forgot. We're not our sadness. We're not our happiness or our pain but our language hypnotizes us and traps us in little labelled boxes () -- Grant Morrison
Music is so hard to talk about in many ways, It communicates beyond what our language can put across, and having to sit there and analyze it and talk about it is a struggle for me. -- Jeff Martin
When you get into the third or fourth generation of Latino immigrants to the United States, you see the kids speaking more English than Spanish, and it's important that we don't lose our identity, our language. -- Thalia
At the same time, new concepts and abstractions flow into the picture, taking up the task of describing the universe without reference to such time or space - abstractions for which our language lacks adequate terms. -- Benjamin Whorf
If it's racist, it's racist. If it's anti-Semitic, it's anti-Semitic. If it's anti-women, it's anti-women. If it's anti-immigrant, it's anti-immigrant, and we need to really strengthen our language, so that it is clear and not mushy. -- Barbara Boxer
Who cares what colour your hair or what shape your shape is? Who cares what religion your religion or what language your language is? What is the colour of your heart? That is all that matters! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
America is not a nation of separation. All our citizens are Americans. The common denominator is our language. Our language is English. The glue that binds generation after generation is both our Constitution and our English language. -- James Traficant
I grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city of Madras, was fluent in at least four languages and used each of them daily. -- Aravind Adiga
This was our language: half-truths, obvious lies, accusations neither one of us would ever make. It was a system eery bit as complicated as Morse code or the dancing of bees. Don't ask, don't tell, stay civil. -- Jennifer Lynn Barnes
English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese. -- Abdul Kalam
You know, I think there are certain words like 'illegitimate' that should not be used to describe a person. And certainly, we have come far enough in our technology that our language can evolve, because it has an impact. -- Aimee Mullins
English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese. -- Abdul Kalam
Rap and spoken word have reawakened the country to poetry in itself. Texting and Twitter encourage creative uses of casual language, in ways I have celebrated widely. But we've fallen behind on savoring the formal layer of our language. -- John McWhorter
I think it's important and I think it's true that our life experience is going to be about our attitude, our thoughts, our beliefs, our speech and our actions. We can transform our life experience simply by changing our language. -- Jason Mraz
I can cite a chapter and verse of literature at the times saying Italians don`t speak our language, these folks coming from other places - it sounds identical to what you are saying about Muslims now. It really does. -- Chris Hayes
Times change but principles don't. Times change but lands do not. Times change but our culture and our language remain the same. And that's what you have to keep intact. It's not what you wear - it's what's in your heart. -- Oren Lyons
Everyone knows ladies love Cajuns. It's in our blood and our language is the language of romance." "Your language is the language of bullshit. You're just a couple of good ole boys with pretty faces. Women just ought to know better. -- Christine Feehan
As artists, we must not go down to the level of the masa; we should bring them up, intellectualize our languages, create classics out of our folk arts. We can do this if we are true to our roots and strive for excellence. -- F. Sionil Jose
The technology that threatens to kill off books as we know them - the 'physical book,' a new phrase in our language - is also making the physical book capable of being more beautiful than books have been since the middle ages. -- Art Spiegelman
To grasp the meaning of the world of today we use a language created to express the world of yesterday. The life of the past seems to us nearer our true natures, but only for the reason that it is nearer our language. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
What happened? Did a house fall on your sister?" I asked. Maybe there was a benefit to our language barrier. She pursed her lips. "You can't stay here much longer," she said. My mouth dropped open. "You...you speak English?" She snorted. "Of course. -- Richelle Mead
... I try ... to use my own voice in a way that shows caring, respect, appreciation, and patience. Your voice, your language, help determine your culture. And part of how a corporate culture is defined is how the people who work for an organization use language. -- Frances Hesselbein

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