Top 1200 Language Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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

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.

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.

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

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.

We live in a world filled with language. Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human community. Writers are either polluters or part of the clean-up team. Just as the language of power and greed has the potential to destroy us, the language of reason and empathy has the power to save us. Writers can inspire a kinder, fairer, more beautiful world, or invite selfishness, stereotyping, and violence. Writers can unite people or divide them.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

With all the divisive forces tearing at our country, we need the glue of language to help hold us together. If we want to ensure that all our children have the same opportunities in life, alternative language education should stop and English should be acknowledged once and for all as the official language of the United States.

I thought why not write a kind of mystery, murder, thriller book, but use romance language where the language plays completely against the very dark subject matter, that very strange murderous plot, but use that Harlequin Romance language.

The majority of the people of the world today are unsane, not insane, unsane meaning having been exposed to methods of evaluation that have long rendered obsolete, our language in the future will change to a saner language where we have no argument in it, 'can there be such a language?' there is, when engineers talk to each other, it's not subject to interpretation, they use math, they use descriptive systems, if I interpreted what another engineer said in the way I think he meant it: you couldn't build bridges, dams, power transmission lines. The language has to have meaning

You need language for thought, and you need language to anticipate death. There is no abstract thought without language and no anticipation. I think the anticipation of death without language would be impossible.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

Body language is more fascinating to me than actual language.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Language [can] be expressed . . . by movements of the hands and face just as well as by the small, sound-generating movements of the throat and mouth. Then the first criterion for language that I had learned as a student—it is spoken and heard—was wrong; and, more important, language did not depend on our ability to speak and hear but must be a more abstract capacity of the brain. It was the brain that had language, and if that capacity was blocked in one channel, it would emerge through another.

For Berkeley (normal) vision is a language whereby God tells us about the tangible world. But prior to having experience of the tangible world, the visual language would be as meaningless as an utterly alien language. It would convey no meaning to the sighted mind.

No, obviously, the time goes by, the English gets better. Ever since I met Melanie, that was almost nine years ago now, you have to just speak the language continuously, hone every word. So, and the proof for me of that, was actually in theater. It has to be two hours and 45 minutes on the stage speaking a language that is not your language, and singing.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Whatever Language Pakistan understands India should teach in that language

Space and force pervade language. Many cognitive scientists (including me) have concluded from their research on language that a handful of concepts about places, paths, motions, agency, and causation underlie the literal or figurative meanings of tens of thousands of words and constructions, not only in English but in every other language that has been studied.

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.

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

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.

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