Contrary to conventional wisdom, dance is not a universal 'language' but many languages and dialects. There are close to 6000 verbal languages, and p….

I'm so language-based and I'm so about communicating, and my art has always been very audience-based, and very about being functional and communicati….

Because it's my first language, all the literature that I've read and all the things that I've been inspired by that have been written in Welsh have ….

We who write in English are fortunate to have the richest and most versatile language in the world. Respect it..

Music is all about transporting people, speaking a language which languages fail to express..

Being British, I don't really have a way of expressing myself in conversation. Music transcends language..

Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise..

I am not anti-English, I am not anti-British, I am not anti-any Government, but I am anti-untruth, anti-humbug and anti-injustice..

Language is the tool of my trade -and I use them all - all the Englishes I grew up with.

This is what language does: organize the world into manageable, and in some sense artificial, units that can then be inhabited and manipulated..

I'm telling you, I could teach at a university, [George] Carlin, a whole semester. The construction and deconstruction of the words, the language, th….

A poet is the translator of the silent language of nature to the world..

Here the term 'language-game' is meant to bring into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity, of a form of life..

Music is that great language where a lot can be said and little can be proven..

Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true..

Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those….

As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, language is just no damn good—I use it because I have to….

For me, being in prison writing in an African language was a way of saying: "Even if you put me in prison, I will keep on writing in the language whi….

Only after my father's death could I speak my own individual truths about him. In a sense, I had to turn him into a character, a figure I could contr….

If you know only one language, you're a prisoner, stuck in the tyranny of that one language..

A French politician once wrote that it was a peculiarity of the French language that in it words occur in the order in which one thinks them..