Language quotes

Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language.

It's like learning a language; you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and that has as much to do with your body as it does with vocabulary and grammar.

Urdu can not die out because it has very strong roots in Persia. The language itself is not only just the language of the Muslims, but it's also the language of the Hindus.

I don't know the rules of grammar... If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language, the language they use every day, the language in which they think. We try to write in the vernacular.

Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never saw it, or certainly those who formed his tradition never saw it, in characters on the pages. It was all on the tongue and in the ear.

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.

I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.

Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.

The language of the moment or, as it were, the language of the order in which we live, is the image. I felt that if I wanted to commune with the public, I should best do so through the language of image. It's a conscious embrace of a contradiction.

The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable language.

You know, they were returning to the language of the people and trying to use musical language, particularly as Copland did to create a musical language in which all Americans would feel that they had a stake.

I would guess that the decision to create a small special purpose language or use an existing general purpose language is one of the toughest decisions that anyone facing the need for a new language must make.

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.

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.

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence above language.

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.

I do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not allow me to take.

The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened.

I use the language I use to my friends. They wouldn't believe me if I used some high-flown literary language. I want them to believe me.

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

If the president is going to use so much language of theology and the Bible, then let's use that language for a serious discussion about the war in Iraq. And that was never done.

Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively.

Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.

I'm really fascinated and you know I've been wondering about that usage of language, various breathing techniques and why in these practices language is being used in another way.

The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-granted by the persons who used it as our language is by ourselves. Nothing strange about it.

Instead of this confusion, we need the unifying force of an official language, English, which is the language of success in America.

If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls.

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

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.

The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it.

The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.

Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.

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.

Language is an archeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.

We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has.

The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.

Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries.

Realistically, English is a universal language; it's the number one language for music and for communicating with the rest of the world.

For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.

Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

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.

So long as we use a certain language, all questions that we can ask will have to be formulated in it and will thereby confirm the theory of the universe which is implied in the vocabulary and structure of the language.

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.

There are infinite shadings of light and shadows and colors... it's an extraordinarily subtle language. Figuring out how to speak that language is a lifetime job.

The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise?

So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to make films without words.

I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and say, 'Hi, how are you?' in their language, they love it. It makes them feel like you're doing it just for them. We in America take so much for granted.