Top 1200 Chinese Language Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

My interest in language is steadfast, but I think each project and its accompanying intentions dictate how language must be used.

Put a symbol, or language of some sort, in a painting and it will be noticed by the viewer whether or not they can read that particular language.

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

I started my career in Naval Intelligence when I entered as a Russian language interpreter sent to DLI, the Defense Language Institute.

Yiddish, the language which will ever bear witness to the violence and murder inflicted on us, bear the marks of our expulsions from land to land, the language which absorbed the wails of the fathers, the laments of the generations, the poison and bitterness of history, the language whose precious jewels are the undried, uncongealed Jewish tears.

If you care about being thought credible and intelligent, do not use complex language where simpler language will do.

Language is so inherent to humanity, so necessary for even basic thinking, that stories and poetry are available to anyone who can process language.

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

Learning a language represents training in the delusions of that language.

The language of the heart is mankind's main common language.

The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by chance, not system.

I think of myself as a translator. I just change the dry, unfeeling language of data into a visual language that allows for feeling.

French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy.

I think we're still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate.

Astrology is a language. If you understand this language, the sky speaks to you.

America is not a nation of separation. All our citizens are Americans. The common denominator is our language. Our language is English. The glue that binds generation after generation is both our Constitution and our English language.

Gone. The saddest word in the language. In any language.

I didn't have Marathi as a language in school. My second language was French.

...he learned the most important part of the language that all the world spoke-the language that everyone on earth was capable of understanding in their heart. It was love.

The language skill in the U.S. for the most part has been awful. Many Americans don't learn any foreign language.

A language is not just a body of vocabulary or a set of grammatical rules. ... Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind.

Every language teaches you something, so learning a language is never wasted, especially if it's different in more than just syntactic trivia.

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

Those who use language and have nothing but language to express themselves live in a cage that cannot feel comfortable.

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

There are very few places in the world where you have to learn a language with no language in common. It's called a monolingual field situation.

I think it'd be pretty cool to fly. Actually, I'd like to be Language Gal. My super power is that I can speak every language.

How is Marxist-Leninist theory to be linked with the practice of the Chinese revolution? To use a common expression, it is by "shooting the arrow at the target". As the arrow is to the target, so is Marxism-Leninism to the Chinese revolution. Some comrades, however, are "shooting without a target", shooting at random, and such people are liable to harm the revolution.

In elementary school, I didn't even play sports, I was just straight up on the juggling team. I started out with the floating scarves. Then I went to tennis balls and all that. Then by like the fourth grade I was doing the Chinese yo-yo. And I was good, man. I was like a master Chinese yo-yo person. I was top five Dead or Alive in South Carolina.

Shepherds know many mysterious languages; they speak the language of sheep and dogs, language of stars and skies, flowers and herbs.

Sarah Buckley is precious, because she is bilingual. She can speak the language of a mother who gave birth to her four children at home. She can also speak like a medical doctor. By intermingling the language of the heart and the scientific language she is driving the history of childbirth towards a radical and inspiring new direction.

The language of tones belongs equally to all mankind, and melody is the absolute language in which the musician speaks to every heart.

Poetry is the art of using language to transcend language.

Here the term 'language-game' is meant to bring into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity, of a form of life.

It's really hard when you read literature in a language that's not your own. There are all these cultural references you have to be born into that particular language to get.

The poem is the literary form of the 21st century. It's able to connect young people in a deep way to language... it's language as play.

The language of the novel differs from the just-the-facts language of the old tales. It's robust and earthy, sometimes even baroque.

The language that nature speaks is the same language that we invented for mathematics. That's just an amazing piece of luck, which we don't understand.

I've been in China enough to know that you shouldn't opine on it unless you speak Chinese and have lived there for twenty years. I wasn't pretending to be a China expert in that final chapter. I was just pointing, first to the parallels between Chinese behavior toward us and ours toward GB when we were at the same stage of development, and secondly to how much harder their development path is than ours was.

I trained to become a sign-language interpreter because it helps you read physical expression and the emotions of body language.

The Biblical worldview is not given to us in the discursive and analytical language of philosophy and science, but in rich and compact language of symbolism and art.

As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the human language is the possibility of lying.

The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form.

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

A programming language is like a natural, human language in that it favors certain methaphors, images, and ways of thinking.

When you act, you want to emote and think in that language. I don't enjoy the process of doing a film in a language I am not good with.

It's not that Perl programmers are idiots, it's that the language rewards idiotic behavior in a way that no other language or tool has ever done.

Language uses us as much as we use language.

Language is as old as consciousness, language is practical, real consciousness that exists for other men as well, and only therefore does it also exist for me; language, like consciousness, only arises from the need, the necessity, of intercourse with other men.

When people say that German or any other language is romantic... all they really mean is that they've enjoyed a past in the language

Soon numbers of Chinese people will exit the work force, and the Chinese work force, which has already begun to shrink, will shrink in a vastly accelerated way. And so China's going to face huge retirement costs and Social Security costs, health care costs, related to this immense aging of the population.

Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.

There's almost no content in terms of language at all. I don't like using language to convey meaning. I'd rather use images and music.

To me the drawn language is a very revealing language: one can see in a few lines whether a man is really an architect.

I came to realize,people who had Chinese accents will continue to have Chinese accents in America are treated as being stupid or not as intelligent as an English speaker who is fluent with an American accent - I came to realize why. But it's always fascinated me how quickly you can change where you stand with another human being just based on how you speak.

It's my language, the language I speak. I've spent a lot more time playing music than talking or writing.

Job Control Language is the worst programming language ever designed anywhere by anybody for any purpose.

We sift reality through screens composed of ideas . (And such ideas have their roots in older ideas.) Such idea systems are necessarily limited by language , by the ways we can describe them. That is to say: language cuts the grooves in which our thoughts move. If we seek new validity forms (other laws and other orders) we must step outside language.

It took a pretty drastic moment to shift my thinking towards visual arts. I got to a moment in my writing career when I wasn't trusting the language, I was really not trusting the written language, the English language. How do you work with a material that you don't have trust in? I had to step away from it and find another way of articulating and I had to do it without words.

The language surrounding cancer is not language I'm particularly comfortable with.