Language Quotations | Page 3

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

The form language used by the ancient Egyptians in their structures is minimal.

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

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

Make it, not make it? What's the difference? Music is a language, it's a dance of life, and it can be a part of your life without being something that earns.

Even if I think in English, it's more a language of acting than French.

It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

I think with all my books, language has been their subject as much as anything else. Language can elide or displace or sideline whole groups of people. You can't necessarily change the way language is used, but if it becomes something you're conscious of... that gives you a certain power over it.

This happens to a lot of kids from different backgrounds - they lose a lot of their parents' and grandparents' teachings, language and culture because they have to deal with another language and culture 24/7. By the time I was 44, I was terrible at Spanish. I was always intimidated whenever I had to speak it.

Because of the Turing completeness theory, everything one Turing-complete language can do can theoretically be done by another Turing-complete language, but at a different cost. You can do everything in assembler, but no one wants to program in assembler anymore.

The word 'right' should be excluded from political language, as the word 'cause' from the language of philosophy.

We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

I consider myself a pretty good conversationalist, but you wind up being downgraded to idiot status when you don't speak the language!

In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.

Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another.

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.

I was worried people would laugh at me when I started to talk the language, but they were just pleasantly surprised that I could. The sense of humour here is great - once I could have a giggle, I settled down.

When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time slowly evolved.

Further, I'm obsessed with how language contorts and creates bodies.

The radio was my big influence. Comedy came from the instinctual feel I had for language.

English, once accepted as an international language, is no more secure than French has proved to be as the one and only accepted language of diplomacy or as Latin has proved to be as the international language of science.

Sometimes the archaism of the language when it's spoken is why we are all in love with the Irish today.

A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs.

I'd defend the right for any novelist to experiment with form or language, but if people don't take to it, don't react by making out that they are thick.

As you know, there are certain languages that lend themselves very easily to vocal use.

The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!

I'm not a religious person. The language of photography is symbolic.

My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language

Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.

One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language.

When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

A feature of English that makes it different compared with all other languages is its global spread.

I used to think that the great thing about sculpture was that, like Stonehenge, it was something that stood against time in an adamantine way, and was an absolute mass in space. Now I try to use the language of architecture to redescribe the body as a place.

I feel that I speak the musical language.

Rednecks' always made me nervous to play, but I'm glad I wrote it and I continue to play it. It's just that the language is so rough.

The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language.

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

Once you embody the language, the character comes really naturally, especially when you put the costume on.

Myspace alone has just over 80 million users and ranks as the sixth most popular English language website and the eighth most popular site in the world.

Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work.

I'm not a lawyer, and maybe I should have used more specific legal language.

The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French.

Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information.

The luster of an experience can actually go up with time. So, learning to play a new instrument, learning a new language - those sorts of things will pay dividends for years or decades to come.

Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.

I think in general I've never dared compose in Spanish. First of all, it is such an intricate language.

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language.

I have a high regard for Native languages and the pivotal role they have played in our nation's history

I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965.

Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.

Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.

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

What do we know about autism in 2013? Autism symptoms generally emerge before age three and usually much earlier, often as language delays or lack of social engagement. Recent research suggests that autism can be detected during the first year of life, even before classic symptoms emerge. Indeed, the symptoms may be a late stage of autism.

We need words to name and designate things. But we have only a static language with which to express ourselves.

There are two possibilities: Either the kiss is a human universal, one of the constellation of innate traits, including language and laughter, that unites us as a species, or it is an invention, like fire or wearing clothes, an idea so good that it was bound to metastasize across the globe.

A standard international language should not only be simple, regular, and logical, but also rich and creative.

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

I start by using Chinese and many of the sounds of other languages are similar.

We probably, as primitive people, made music before we actually had a language, and that's where language comes from.

There's a lot of money with a lot of big law firms that have a tremendous amount at stake by getting the right language to convince the right jury that my client is either innocent or that the opposition is guilty.

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.

Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up.

I know what the structure of the language is.

I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.

Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.

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.

I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.

Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.

It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language.

Anyone interested in language ends up writing about the sociological issues around it.

In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.

If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.

It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.

We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate of matrimony.

It is time for dead languages to be quiet.

People come from around the world and can understand each other without even speaking the same languages!

I worked in a bookstore in Oslo, importing the English-language books.

The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!

My mum made a conscious decision not to teach me any Indian languages so I wouldn't talk with an accent.

As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and is in no better case than a constructed language.

I had a quick ear and could pick up languages.

There was no language barrier when it came to kids, and when it came to play.

Every different director has another language - for instance, Hitchcock does not like any bright color ever, unless the story says 'there goes the girl in a red dress.'

The world of fiction is a sovereign world that comes to life in the author's head and follows the rules of art, of literature. And that is the major difference that is reflected in the form of the work, in its language and its plot. An author invents every aspect of a fiction, every detail.

When people speak their own language you get a much better sense of who they are.

Second-generation Hispanics marry non-Hispanics at a higher rate than second-generation Irish or Italians. Second-generation Hispanics' English language capability rates are higher than previous immigrant groups'.

Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language.

Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.

Some version of 'Deal or No Deal' airs in 120 countries. And they play it exactly the same way, with models and briefcases. It crosses language and culture and gender, because it's the simplest game in the world, and everyone wants to press their luck.

In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible.

Words can sometimes be used to confuse, but it's up to the practitioners of the study of language to apply them for good and not for evil. It is just like fire; fire can heat your house or burn it down.

If I had mastered the Spanish language to any extent, I might have gone in that direction.

Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health.

I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out.

Good music is very close to primitive language.

I don't really read as much as I used to. A lot of what I was looking for as an escape I find in writing. And the other thing is that I don't want to get into someone else's language when I'm working

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.