Top 1200 German Language Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Poetry is the art of using language to transcend language.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Should you encounter the enemy, he will be defeated! No quarter will be given! Prisoners will not be taken! Whoever falls into your hands is forfeited. Just as a thousand years ago the Huns under their King Attila made a name for themselves, one that even today makes them seem mighty in history and legend, may the name German be affirmed by you in such a way in China that no Chinese will ever again dare to look cross-eyed at a German.

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

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.

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)

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Language uses us as much as we use language.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

We National Socialists must hold unflinchingly to our aim in foreign policy, namely to secure for the German people the land and soil to which they are entitles on this earth. And this action is the only one which, before God and or German posterity, would make any sacrifice of blood seem justified: before God, since we have been put on this earth with the mission of eternal struggle for our daily bread.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

If European monetary policy is run according to German interests, huge structural imbalances will accumulate. The Germans will then either have to pay to correct those imbalances or agree that the euro should not be run primarily according to German interests. If they are unwilling to do either of those things, the euro can't survive.

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

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