Language Quotations | Page 9

Thoughts there are, not to be translated into any language, and spirits alone can read them.

Irishness is not primarily a question of birth or blood or language; it is the condition of being involved in the Irish situation, and usually of being mauled by it.

A language Older Than Words

Poetry reminds us of the truths about life and human nature that we knew all along, but forgot somehow because they weren't yet in memorable language.

Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don't have a passport.

As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.

It`s one thing for Hillary Clinton to adopt some anti-Wall Street language to try to appeal to progressives.

I think the most annoying language is a tie between all the ones I don't know how to speak.

For those of us who write, it is necessary to scrutinize not only the truth of what we speak, but the truth of that language by which we speak it.

My subconscious speaks in a foreign language.

Appropriation was the language of my generation in many ways. It came out of Duchamp, Warhol, Johns, Lichtenstein.

Under the tropic is our language spoke, And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our yoke.

One of the obligations of the writer is to say or sing all that he or she can, to deal with as much of the world as becomes possible to him or her in language.

In any language it is a struggle to make a sentence say exactly what you mean.

True creativity often starts where language ends.

Clarity in language depends on clarity in thought.

They have a word in Finnish called sisu, which basically means guts. It’s the strongest word in the Finnish language. You tell a Finn he doesn’t have sisu, that’s like spitting in his face.

Today we are learning the language in which God created life.

There is in every child a painstaking teacher, so skilful that he obtains identical results in all children in all parts of the world. The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!

Toxic language creates a hostile work environment -- and that's now illegal, ... Just as sexual harassment was ruled by the courts to create a hostile work environment for classes of employees protected under EEOC and Title VII laws, so toxic language poses similar legal liabilities. Companies are being sued today for the language used by bosses.

Toxic language creates a hostile work environment -- and that's now illegal. Just as sexual harassment was ruled by the courts to create a hostile work environment for classes of employees protected under EEOC and Title VII laws, so toxic language poses similar legal liabilities. Companies are being sued today for the language used by bosses.

Times change and forms and their meanings alter. Thus new poems are necessary. Their forms must be discovered in the living language of their day, or old forms, embodying exploded concepts, will tyrannize over the imagination.

When Friedan came to Smith in the fall of 1938 from a provincial town in Illinois, she was not very political, and her Smith education gave her the language of politics and feminism. She was definitely a feminist when she left.

To me, the term 'guardian' is a term of endearment and responsibility. If our language changes, usually action follows.

We're doing Mono because we care about upgrading the development platform, we care about language independence; and it's very nice two work on.

We are considering making the service provider that is not meeting the agency's needs bear the cost. We need clear language in the service-level agreements, so providers and agency customers know what is expected of them.

The policy language is specific and clear, and the jury verdict says that. I feel sorry for these people, I really do. This is a case we should have settled a long time ago.

We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.

We are not looking for a bit of window dressing on the same old recycled gobbledygook, ... We expect you to do whatever it takes to speak to investors in a language they understand -- English.

We want to help further the understanding of the Italian culture and language to those who are interested. We're hoping that these events will spark students' interests in our club and prompt more people to join, along with providing an educational and entertaining experience.

I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.

One of the most frustrating words in the human language, as far as I could tell, was love" - Bethany

Having an international voice is not really about whether we speak Persian or any other language.

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

I want to go beyond the restrictions of language, religion and caste, and music is the only thing that allows me to do that.

We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.

Experience is always larger than language.

Go back so far there is another language go back far enough the language is no longer personal.

Only where there is language is there world.

A language is a map of our failures

Language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

Expression and communication in the peak–experiences tend often to become poetic, mythical, and rhapsodic, as if this were the natural kind of language to express such states of being.

We want to be very clear, and not necessarily fuzz things up with diplomatic language that may get us in trouble down the road.

I hardly ever talk- words seem such a waste, and they are none of them true. No one has yet invented a language from my point of view.

In the United States there's not a lot of people interested in foreign language films. Every time, it's more difficult for foreign language films to survive here.

How quickly a zek (a prisoner) gets cheeky-or, putting it in literary language, how quickly a man's requirements grow.

We, as writers, have to figure out a way to create a consciousness in language. It's crazy even to attempt to do that.

There's no bad writing; you did something. I was operating inside language, and I did something. I'm not ashamed of it.

Literature is always something - it is either story or poetry, ideally both. That is, you always know what it is and even if the interpretation is not available, the experience of language is.

As long as there are living human beings, there will be language and stories.

What I find interesting about it is the richness of the archive and the challenge of figuring out how the language as it was documented in 1905 is similar to or different from the language we can hear now. The project is trying to pull all of that into one big picture of a single language.

What is surprising is the language used by the RBI to focus on potential issues on the horizon, such as inflationary pressure, asset bubbles and credit risk.

God only speaks to those who understand the language

What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about a plight that must be understood.

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.

The world was a cruder, more vulgar place than the one I had known. This was the language required to live in it, I supposed.

To transform experience and thought into language and narrative - that is beautiful even if that beauty is in brokenness.

Learn a language of another country and then you can go to that country: a place where the problems of your family will not follow. A language they do not speak.

Mastery of the German language and the acceptance of our legal system has to become part of the criteria for naturalization.

I make music to touch the souls of people as it's a language we all can speak.

The absence of words is the absence of intimacy. There are experiences that are starved for language.

With children who have never said a word, parents tend to assume, for better or for worse, that there isn't any language there.

The experience of being depressed and emerging from depression made me understand the idea of a soul. I felt that the language in which one could best acknowledge that drew from faith.

I think you always feel braver in another language.

Zis and zat' when uttered by the French is considered charming, but 'dis and dat' as an Africanism is ridiculed as gross and ugly.

You can never tell about a person by guessing...that's why language was invented. Otherwise, we'd all be like dogs, sniffing each other to find out where we stood.

I certainly don't walk around my home or being with my family and just using profane language all the time, but on stage, it's a constant,

Photography is my only language.

The credibility of the president is on the line. And I believe that he should move forward as quickly as possible to call for a full investigation. We should be able to point to those people fully responsible for putting that misleading language in the State of the Union address. They should be held accountable, and they should be dismissed.

The best translators slip into the glove of a text and then turn it inside out into another language, and the whole thing comes out looking like a brand-new glove again. I'm completely in awe of this skill, since I happen to be both bilingual and a writer, but nevertheless a lousy translator.

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

Think about Elizabethan English, where the entire English language behaved pretty much like molten lava, like a volcano in mid-eruption. Modern Hebrew has some things in common with Elizabethan English. It is being reshaped and it's expanding very rapidly in various directions.

Literature belongs first and foremost to the language in which it is being written.

Hebrew is deeply inspired by other languages.

Not now, for the last three thousand years, Hebrew has been penetrated and fertilized by ancient Semitic languages - by Aramaic, by Greek, by Latin, by Arabic, by Yiddish, by Latino, by German, by Russian, by English, I could go on and on. It's very much like English.

The English language took in many many fertilizations, many many genes, from other languages, from foreign languages - Latin, French, Nordic languages, German, Scandinavian languages.

Every language has influences and is an influence.

Literature exists inside the language. It's made of words.

It's still a mystery to me exactly how I learned the language. [But] I was 19 years old and I had very urgent things to tell girls.

It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is.

My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness.

I am influenced by words and the chewiness of language

Ooo ahe-e, I aya oa a," she said in yawnspeak, a language - not unlike Hawaiian - known for its paucity of consonants.

I was very adept at acquiring languages.

I’d thought I knew what beauty was in women; but she’d surpassed all the language I had for it.

Be careful of words, / ... they can be both daisies and bruises.

We've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first.

A thug only understands you when you speak his language

What we've asked for is to have some input in the injunction process and we are looking for ways to comply with the language in the 9th circuit opinion.

Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.

He is, I think, already pondering a magisterial project: that of buggering the English language, the ultimate revenge of the colonialised.

He is the intermediary between us, his audience, the living, and they, the dolls, the undead, who cannot live at all and yet who mimic the living in every detail since, though they cannot speak or weep, still they project those signals of signification we instantly recognize as language.

Mathematics is pure language - the language of science. It is unique among languages in its ability to provide precise expression for every thought or concept that can be formulated in its terms.

Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination.

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

Style is just an impression. Style itself is hollow. Style, its ok style as long as it is part of a language. Style for style itself is just something very hollow.

Actually, my correspondent's language is better than mine. He can put his sentiment into words.

The language of priorities is the religion of socialism.

One must not be shy where language is concerned.

Your body language shapes who you are