Top 1200 German Language Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

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.

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

Those who read in a second language write and spell better in that language.

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

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

A writer can have only one language, if language is going to mean anything to him.

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

A man who has a language consequently possesses the world expressed and implied by that language.

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

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

Ultimately all hominids came from Africa, and therefore everyone in America should simply check the box next to 'African-American.' My maternal grandmother was German and my maternal grandfather was Greek. The next time I fill out one of those forms I am going to check 'Other' and write in the truth about my racial and cultural heritage: 'African-Greek-German-American.' And proud of it.

When language fails, violence becomes a language; I never had that feeling.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I am happy to do a film in Bengali language as I know and love that language.

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

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

We always translate the other person's language into our own language.

For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love.

Whatever Language Pakistan understands India should teach in that language

Body language is more fascinating to me than actual language.

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

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

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

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

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?

Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.

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

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

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

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

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.

Our enemies must not deceive themselves-in the 2,000 years of German history known to us, our people have never been more united than today. The Lord of the Universe has treated us so well in the past years that we bow in gratitude to a providence which has allowed us to be members of such a great nation. We thank Him that we also can be entered with honor into the ever-lasting book of German history!

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

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.

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

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

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

The only living language is the language in which we think and have our being.

The jargon of authenticity ... is a trademark of societalized chosenness, ... sub-language as superior language.

Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.

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

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.

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

A German merchant of the fifteenth century asked an eminent professor where he should send his son for a good business education. The professor responded that German universities would be sufficient to teach the boy addition and subtraction but he would have to go to Italy to learn multiplication and division. Before you smile indulgently, try multiplying or even just adding the Roman numerals CCLXIV, MDCCCIX, DCL, and MLXXXI without first translating them.

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

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

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

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

Photography today is accomplishing a lofty mission in which every German should collaborate by buying a camera. The German people is ahead of every other in the technical domain and, thanks to its exceptional qualities, the small camera has conquered the whole world... Much is at stake here from the point of view of popular consumer goods and, furthermore, photography has a particularly important political role to play. (Addressing the Berlin Photography Fair, 1933)

Language mavens commonly confuse their own peeves with a worsening of the language.

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

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

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