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I would say that jazz is my own language. -- Amy Winehouse
I want to keep talking about my people and my country in my own language. -- Nadine Labaki
He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish. -- Jose Rizal
When people speak their own language you get a much better sense of who they are. -- Bruno Tonioli
Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language. -- Leo Ornstein
If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls. -- Guido van Rossum
Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated. -- Thomas Bulfinch
If you aspire to be a leader of your own country, you must speak your own language, for God's sake. -- Vladimir Putin
The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language. -- Paul de Man
There is a wealth of readership for regional language literature in India that is not given importance. We must give respect to our own languages. -- Amish Tripathi
Acting in another language is great, and I've done that. But you can't do it as well as you can do it in your own language. -- Emmanuelle Seigner
I don't hate language. I have my own language, but I also enjoy the English language. Obviously, you don't read a lot of literature and not care about language. -- Twyla Tharp
God has to speak to each person in their own language, in their own idioms. Take Spanish, Chinese. You can express the same thought, but to different people you have to use a different language. It's the same in religion. -- Huston Smith
Hands have their own language. -- Simon Van Booy
Every man prays in his own language. -- Duke Ellington
Art speaks its own language-soul to soul, heart to heart. -- Ana Tzarev
No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another. -- George Bernard Shaw
We always translate the other person's language into our own language. -- Milton H. Erickson
I type a 101 words a minute. But it's in my own language. -- Mitch Hedberg
He who knows other languages feels even closer to his own language. -- KatÃ³ Lomb
The stars have their own language, you know. If you're careful, you can learn it. -- Sarah Jio
That's part of that thing of transcending languages. Every person will have their own language. -- Jerry Garcia
The heart has its own language. The heart knows a hundred thousand ways to speak. -- Rumi
A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
As we read a text in our own language, the text itself becomes a barrier. -- Alberto Manguel
You may buy from me in your own language, but sell to me in mine. -- Willy Brandt
As our dreams make evident, the psyche's own language is that of image, and not idea. -- Christine Downing
Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand. -- Duke Ellington
If we have listening ears, God speaks to us in our own language, whatever that language be -- Mahatma Gandhi
I have my own language and it's high time I put a little of it out there. -- Paul Westerberg
That's why it's important to be multilingual, because it teaches you so much about your own language. -- Sandra Cisneros
What other creature, besides the lion, the tiger, and the whale, can answer Creation in its own language? -- John Vaillant
The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social factors, one's own language above all. -- Edward Sapir
Music is its own language - if you don't speak it, it's hard to say what you're trying to do. -- Zedd
Deep down, you see, I long to be arcane, esoteric. I would love to confound people with their own language. -- David Levithan
When you're in other people's country you don't speak your own language out of respect. You don't need to speak. -- Warwick Thornton
Sci-Fi is incredibly challenging and has its own language. I have to speak its language; it's not going to learn mine. -- Victoria Mahoney
Each composer has their own language, and I try to meet the challenges, even if at first sight, they appear impossible. -- Michala Petri
In my experience, writing a novel tends to create its own structure, its own demands, its own language, its own ending. -- Don DeLillo
The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard! -- Manuel Puig
[Art] can speak its own language only as long as the images are alive which refuse and refute the established order. -- Herbert Marcuse
The job of the poet is to use language effectively, his own language, the only language which is to him authentic. -- William Carlos Williams
Talk to Allah in your own language with your heart fully present. Allah doesn't need you to rhyme or speak arabic. -- Omar Suleiman
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
By now they had mastered my own language, but they still made simple mistakes, like using 'hermeneutics,' when they meant 'heuristic'. -- Woody Allen
We have our own language. Christianese... We don't say 'He's out of his mind,' no, we say 'That's our youth pastor. -- Tim Hawkins
Even if you're a genius and you invent your own language, it doesn't become a language until there are people using it. -- Eyvind Kang
The easiest books are generally the best; for, whatever author is obscure and difficult in his own language, certainly does not think clearly. -- Bill Vaughan
The love of our own language, what is it, in fact, but the love of our country expressing itself in one particular direction? -- Richard Chenevix Trench
Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation knows about its own identity. -- John Ciardi
In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its own language. -- Peter Zumthor
Someone handed me Mexico City Blues in St. Paul [Minnesota] in 1959 and it blew my mind. It was the first poetry that spoke my own language. -- Bob Dylan
The language of poetry is not stuck in place. Nothing can own language. I think, however, the genre of poetry itself is very feminine and motherly. -- Kim Hyesoon
People can stand around and share movement with each other, whether it's professional or not. That's how it grows. That's what dance does. It's its own language. -- Stephen Boss
People who work in specialized fields seem to have their own language. Practitioners develop a shorthand to communicate among themselves. The jargon can almost sound like a foreign language. -- Barry Ritholtz
In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language. -- Mark Twain
All Gaul is divided into three parts, one of which the Belgae inhabit, the Aquitani another, those who in their own language are called Celts, in ours Gauls, the third. -- Julius Caesar
This sign I give you: every people speaks its tongue of good and evil, which the neighbor does not understand. It has invented its own language of customs and rights. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Now and again he spoke to those that served him and thanked them in their own language. They smiled at him and said laughing: 'Here is a jewel among hobbits! -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Whatever is language is poetic language and if the word required by the poet does not exist in his known language then it is up to him to discover it. -- Lenore Kandel
The absolutist takes himself to read nature in her very own language, but the relativist insists that nature does not speak, and we hear only what we have elected to hear. -- Simon Blackburn
An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language. -- Henri Matisse
Before I got into politics, I wanted to be a missionary to people in the Middle East. I thought it would be better to speak with them in their own language. -- Jonathan Krohn
The key is that Jesus does want to speak to us-to you-today. In your own language, just as a friend would speak. We simply need to take the time to listen. -- Wally Armstrong
There was a patient look on the old man's face, as if the world were a great mistake and he had nobody with whom to speak his own language or find companionship. -- Sarah Orne Jewett
In an instant he became aware that the tourist was about to try his own peculiar brand of linguistics, which meant that he would speak loudly and slowly in his own language. -- Terry Pratchett
Every relationship has its own language. It takes a long time to evolve and read one another. Just as it's true for people, it's also true on a national or cultural level. -- David Mitchell
We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans. -- Mangosuthu Buthelezi
Even though many Indians can read or speak English, for most, it is not their first language. At the office, we speak in English, but we consume our culture in our own language. -- Amish Tripathi
It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to master a foreign language if you're not brought up with it. -- Max von Sydow
I curse all negative purism that tells me not to use a word from another language that either expresses something that my own language cannot or does that in a more delicate manner. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to master a foreign language if you're not brought up with it -- Max von Sydow
I didn't really know how to make a film when I made 'Control'. I had to create my own language, just as I did when I started taking photographs. I never studied either one. -- Anton Corbijn
No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language. -- Jacques Derrida
The French just said he was a damned nuisance. Or they would have had they the good fortune to speak English. Instead being French they were forced to say it in their own language. -- Lauren Willig
Adam is one of my favourite writers, period. He has such a unique voice and he's somebody who I admire so much for putting the effort into inventing his own language and furthering it. -- Babatunde Adebimpe
the translator, a lonely sort of acrobat, becomes confused in a labyrinth of paradox, or climbs a pyramid of dependent clauses and has to invent a way down from it in his own language. -- Lydia Davis
That means presenting the issues in certain ways that will appeal to those people and then becoming a prisoner of your own language and thought process. That has always happened - it's just been intensified. -- Robert Scheer
When I started off, I always used to do parodies and impressions, mimicking people... and then institutions. You become aware that some institutions have their own language. You almost define yourself by how you speak. -- Armando Iannucci
Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say,"God, he said exactly what I was thinking." And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death. -- Lee Iacocca
Writing a tribe is fun. They have their own language, their own slang; they repeat it, and it becomes part of the texture of the play. For a writer, that's thrilling. That's when my pen flies. -- Laura Wade
The plain people, hereafter as in the past, will continue to make their own language, and the best that grammarians can do is to follow after it, haltingly, and not often with much insight into it. -- H. L. Mencken
My wife and I have created our own language. We can be at a table with six other people and have an argument without anyone knowing. It doesn't even have to be out loud. It's bizarre. -- Pete Wentz
Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death. -- Lee Iacocca
The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. Not just in a 'free beer' kind of way, but also in the free speech kind of way. -- Jimmy Wales
It is the task of the translator to release in his own language that pure language that is under the spell of another, to liberate the language imprisoned in a work in his re-creation of that work. -- Walter Benjamin
To create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language - That's who I am. That's what I am doing. That's my life goal. -- Jimmy Wales
Anyone interested in the world generally can't help being interested in young adult culture - in the music, the bands, the books, the fashions, and the way in which the young adult community develops its own language. -- Margaret Mahy
The business, task or object of the scientific study of languages will if possible be 1) to trace the history of all known languages. Naturally this is possible only to a very limited extent and for very few languages. -- Ferdinand de Saussure
While we have the freedom to share our love for God with Him and His people in our own language, let's make sure that what we are writing about is orthodox and embraces the "whole counsel of Scripture." -- Brenton Brown
God has to speak to each person in their own language, in their own idioms. Take Spanish, Chinese. You can express the same thought, but to different people you have to use a different language. Its the same in religion. -- Huston Smith
Under the Assads, Kurds were forbidden from learning their own language at school, or even from speaking it in the military. The result is a generation of Syrian Kurds, many now in late middle age, who cant write their own language. -- Luke Harding
Under the Assads, Kurds were forbidden from learning their own language at school, or even from speaking it in the military. The result is a generation of Syrian Kurds, many now in late middle age, who can't write their own language. -- Luke Harding
Archaeological materials are not mute. They speak their own language. And they need to be used for the great source they are to help unravel the spirituality of those of our ancestors who predate the Indo-Europeans by many thousands of years. -- Marija Gimbutas
... while infants will sync with the human voice regardless of language, they later become habituated to the rhythms of their own language and culture ... ... humans are tied to each other by hierarchies of rhythms that are culture-specific and expressed through language and body movement. -- Edward T. Hall
Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure upon his taste, surround himself with books, all in his own language, and thence forward have at least one place in the world. -- Augustine Birrell
All that they lacked was the gift that descended upon the chosen disciples at Pentecost, in tongues of flame; symbolizing, it would seem, not the power of speech in foreign and unknown languages, but that of addressing the whole human brotherhood in the heart's native language. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
He was dancing to some music No one else had ever heard He'd speak in unknown languages She would translate every word And then when the world was laughing At his castles in the sky She'd hold him in her body Till he once again could fly. -- Harry Chapin
New fathers, political prisoners, traumatised presidential aides, resolute schoolboys, MEPs addressing unfriendly chambers - we all find that Shakespeare has magically anticipated our precise circumstances. How he was possible, I still don't understand; but there isn't a day I'm not grateful that he speaks to me in my own language. -- Daniel Hannan
Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter. -- Charles Baudelaire
When you are a kid you have your own language, and unlike French or Spanish or whatever you start learning in fourth grade, this one you are born with, and eventually lose...Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult...is only a slow sewing it shut. -- Jodi Picoult
Every language has its own music. -- Sid Caesar
Money has a language of its own. -- Robert Kiyosaki
I have never designed a language for its own sake. -- Niklaus Wirth
Love will find its way through all languages on its own. -- Rumi
Denmark is like a secret little place with its own special language. -- Helena Christensen
Language mavens commonly confuse their own peeves with a worsening of the language. -- Steven Pinker
Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint. -- Gates McFadden
Man can only describe God in his own poor language. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I speak only one language, and it is not my own. -- Jacques Derrida
To feel estranged from language is to lose your own body. -- Paul Auster
Poetry is a language in which man explores his own amazement. -- Christopher Fry
The habits and language of clandestinity can intoxicate even its own practitioners. -- William Colby
If you don't like a language, you can go write your own. -- Helen DeWitt
A people without a language of its own, is only half a nation. -- Thomas Davis
The act of language or the act of denying language carries its own heaviness. -- Leni Zumas
Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own. -- Wilkie Collins
Artists should never look at pictures, but should stutter in a language of their own. -- Winslow Homer
The words are in my own internal language, and mean more than I could ever explain, -- Lisa Gerrard

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