Top 1200 Chinese Language Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

Sci-Fi is incredibly challenging and has its own language. I have to speak its language; it's not going to learn mine.

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

When experience flies into realms that language cannot touch, honesty demands beyond-language.

It’s daunting to find the language so foreign, so distant, but also so thrilling. One is absolved of responsibility when the language is incomprehensible.

You should do whatever language you feel is the perfect language for you to sing in and then try to strive to do the best.

The world speaks of holy things in the only language it knows, which is worldly language.

When we talk mathematics, we may be discussing a secondary language built on the primary language of the nervous system.

Dance is so important in the world. It needs no language. Our bodies speak a language of its own.

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

All the best bands have a language, and what they say within that language makes it is what it is.

Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature.

Poems are a form of music, and language just happens to be our instrument - language and breath.

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

I watched the gorilla's eyes again, wise and knowing eyes, and wondered about this business of trying to teach apes language. Our language. Why? There are many members of our own species who live in and with the forest and know it and understand it. We don't listen to them. What is there to suggest we would listen to anything an ape could tell us? Or that it would be able to tell us of its life in a language that hasn't been born of that life? I thought, maybe it is not that they have yet to gain a language, it is that we have lost one.

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

This word "LOVE" - discredited, "clicheed" - can be restored and love, the instinct, the impulse to care for somebody in the hope that somebody will care for you - plus our language, the language, a language - is about all we have. With everything else going on, this is what makes us, what keeps us human.

Truth and falsity is something that concerns language, it's a property of language.

Silence is God's language, and it's a very difficult language to learn.

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

Is there no room for art in the spoken language? What is the use of creating an unnatural language to the exclusion of the natural one?

The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.

The body is a very low level machine language. The language of the soul, of the mind, is much more evolved.

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

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

We are at a time in our country's history that inclusive language is better than exclusive language.

The culture cannot evolve faster than the language. The language is the flashlight that shows the path.

Poetry seems to be the only weapon able to beat language, using language's own means.

Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written, we learn the language.

It is music that, being the universal language, has no need to learn any particular language of the world.

Isn’t the most sensitive point of this mourning the fact that I must lose a language — the amorous language? No more ‘I love you’s.

We have only the language for fun and miserable, and maybe we need language for deep and shallow, meaningful and meaningless.

Language is an art, like brewing or baking.... It certainly is not a true instinct, for every language has to be learnt.

Design is just language and the real issue is what you use that language to do.

Even if you're a genius and you invent your own language, it doesn't become a language until there are people using it.

I learned that to be amusing was not to be frivolous and that language - always the language - was the magic key as much to prose as to poetry.

I tell my students to think of poems as language plus, language with value added beyond its everyday use.

Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality.

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

Not bad in short, though the last one [understanding the language of animals], isn't half as useful as you might expect, since when all's said and done the language of the beasts tends to revolve around: a) the endless hunt for food, b) finding a warm bush to sleep in the evening, and c) the sporadic satisfication of certain glands. (Many would argue that the language of human kind boils down to this too)

What I am doing is creating a language. A different American language.

I'm Language Gal. I can speak any language presented to me. And I look exactly like Halle Berry.

Grammar is not a set of rules; it is something inherent in the language, and language cannot exist without it. It can be discovered, but not invented.

I am an actor and I don't have any language barrier. If I get a Tamil film, I will learn the language. It's not a problem.

If we have listening ears, God speaks to us in our own language, whatever that language be

Every language will have different nuances. But language cannot be the basis for discrimination or exclusion.

However virile the English language may be, it can never become the language of the masses of India.

The language of men was involved with only one hemisphere in order to leave the other free for the language of the gods.

I think it's important if you're American to have a second language, and Spanish is the language to have.

Language both reflects and shapes society. Culture shapes language and then language shapes culture. Little wonder that the words we use to talk to each other, and about each other, are the most important words in our language: they tell us who I am, they tell us who you are, they tell us who 'they' are.

We like to pile language on language. Hunter [ S. Thompson] was an influence on me, no doubt about it.

The fact is that Chinese parents can do things that would seem unimaginable-even legally actionable-to Westerners. Chinese mothers can say to their daughters, "Hey fatty-lose some weight." By contrast, Western parents have to tiptoe around the issue, talking in terms of "health" and never ever mentioning the f-word, and their kids still end up in therapy for eating disorders and negative self image.

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

The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.

We are not taught to think decently on sex subjects, and consequently we have no language for them except indecent language.

I draw because words are too unpredictable. I draw because words are too limited. If you speak and write in English, or Spanish, or Chinese, or any other language, then only a certain percentage of human beings will get your meaning. But when you draw a picture everybody can understand it. If I draw a cartoon of a flower, then every man, woman, and child in the world can look at it and say, "That's a flower.

The traditional statement about language is that it is in itself living, and that writing is the dead part of language.

paraphrasing.."Science is the language of the intellect of society. Art is language of the entire human personality.

The relationship between science and the humanities is two-way. Science changes our view of the world and our place in it. In the other direction, the humanities provide the store of ideas and images and language available to us in understanding the world. The exploding star of A.D. 1054, the Crab Nebula, was sighted and documented by the Chinese, but nowhere mentioned in the West, where the Aristotelian notion of the immortality of stars still held sway. We often do not see what we do not expect to see.

I love the French language... it's a delightful language, especially to curse with. It's like whopping your ass with silk.

The Hawaiian language needs to be studied globally as a language of life.