There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves spits on its hands and goes to work.

I get along with all the women singers but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly language.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language that goes to his heart.

War is what happens when language fails.

Language is the house of the truth of Being.

Every legend moreover contains its residuum of truth and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

The first few weeks football players look at you like you are speaking a foreign language. My job is to get them to trust me trust the system. I ask them to run in a way that makes no sense to them.

It is a sore point because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You also have problems because on bad days you don't trust yourself either in your first or your second language and so you feel like a complete halfwit.

And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people it's an intimate medium of television and that we can do reading and language development for young children without getting into human sexuality.