Top 1200 Language Acquisition Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

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

Violent ground-acquisition games such as football are in fact a crypto-fascist metaphor for nuclear war.

I suppose that was my first bit of acting, the acquisition of an English accent. It was really just an attempt to be understood.

Bilingual-education advocates say it's important to teach a child in his or her family's language. I say you can't use family language in the classroom - the very nature of the classroom requires that you use language publicly.

Any successful company in the valley gets acquisition offers and has to decide whether or not to take them.

Language and culture cannot be separated. Language is vital to understanding our unique cultural perspectives. Language is a tool that is used to explore and experience our cultures and the perspectives that are embedded in our cultures.

I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators 'the haute couture of language.'

A teacher should, above all things, first induce a desire in the pupil for the acquisition he wishes to impart.

I like language, and in film, language is diluted by the visuals and the music. Theatre is what I was trained for.

A language is the appearances of connections therefore language as in writing doesn't express anything: it creates.

I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators "the haute couture of language."

The mentality of mankind and the language of mankind created each other. If we like to assume the rise of language as a given fact, then it is not going too far to say that the souls of men are the gift from language to mankind. The account of the sixth day should be written: He gave them speech, and they became souls.

Shakespeare's language does not require a British accent. It requires a facility with language, and that's all.

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

I don't believe in that country any longer. I'm not interested. I'm writing in the language, and I like the language.

Raw fish suppers admittedly require a little planning, not least in the acquisition of the main ingredient.

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

The language marches in step with the executioners. Therefore we must get a new language.

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

As I have seen with a lot of companies I have covered, acquisition interest can be a heady experience, and not always in a good way.

Acting in another language is great, and I've done that. But you can't do it as well as you can do it in your own language.

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?

I was able to learn a new language - a new musical language is learning a new language, because it's so extremely different from Western classical music. African music is completely different.

I feel like it's not so much a tradition as a system that has been codified over the centuries starting in the Renaissance that applies to any painted surface. So if you're engaging in paintings, this is the language that one has to learn and is obliged to speak. I was very fortunate that I learned this language when I was a kid before I went to California, where I learned the language of attitude. Somehow the two things began to coexist.

If language naturally evolves to serve the needs of tiny rodents with tiny rodent brains, then what's unique about language isn't the brilliant humans who invented it to communicate high-level abstract thoughts. What's unique about language is that the creatures who develop it are highly vulnerable to being eaten.

M&A negotiations feel really fun. This is one of the biggest killers of companies, is they entertain acquisition conversations.

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

Bayer's planned acquisition of Monsanto promises to increase concentration in both the seed and agrochemical markets.

Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.

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

Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.

Remote Sensing is defined as the acquisition of information about an object without being in physical contact with it.

We're all surrounded by what I call faux language, fake language of commerce, of news media.

The establishment of formal standards for proofs about programs... and the proposal that the semantics of a programming language may be defined independently of all processors for that language, by establishing standards of rigor for proofs about programs in the language, appears to be novel.

Walkers are 'practitioners of the city,' for the city is made to be walked. A city is a language, a repository of possibilities, and walking is the act of speaking that language, of selecting from those possibilities. Just as language limits what can be said, architecture limits where one can walk, but the walker invents other ways to go.

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

You don't have to have a language in common with someone for a sexual rapport. But it helps if the language you don't understand is Italian.

One thing I can say about the French language is that no one in the world loves their language as much as they do.

Whatever Language Pakistan understands India should teach in that language

We sleep in language if language does not come to wake us up with its strangeness.

Body language is more fascinating to me than actual language.

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

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

James Joyce's English was based on the rhythm of the Irish language. He wrote things that shocked English language speakers but he was thinking in Gaelic. I've sung songs that if they were in English, would have been banned too. The psyche of the Irish language is completely different to the English-speaking world.

Sign language is my first language. English and Spanish are my second languages. I learned Spanish from my grandparents, sign language from my parents, and English from television.

The fact that all our ape cousins - chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans - can acquire signs - is powerful evidence that our hominid ancestors' first language was gestural and that the vocal version of language was a relatively recent development. My own guess is that vocal language began emerging about 200,000 years ago.

We often think that language mirrors the world in which we live, and I find that's not true. The language actually makes the world in which we live. Language is not - I mean, things don't have any mutable value by themselves; we ascribe them a value.

Theater is about language, so characters have to define themselves through language for an audience.

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

I think every acquisition is unique and different. The best strategy is to listen to the founders and follow their lead.

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

It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought.

But I think people, especially white people, have to come to understand that the language of the ghetto is a language of its own, and as the party - whose members for the most part come from the ghetto - seeks to talk to the people, it must speak the people's language.

The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined discourse. Familiarity creates a new language, an in-house language of intimacy that carries reference to the story the two lovers are weaving together and that cannot be readily understood by others.

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

The true aim of our Christian life consists in the acquisition of the Holy Spirit of God.

As with the acquisition, so with the use of money; they way in which a man spends it is often one of the surest tests of character.

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

Deals are always a bit lumpy. We look at, 'Is it solving a problem for us?' And if it does, we move to acquisition.

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