Top 1200 Power Of Language Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

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

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

Body language is more fascinating to me than actual language.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The necessity for power is obvious, because life cannot be lived without order; but the allocation of power is arbitrary because all men are alike, or very nearly. Yet power must not seem to be arbitrarily allocated, because it will not then be recognized as power. Therefore prestige, which is illusion, is of the very essence of power.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

When power is for sale, then government power should be severely limited. When power is abused, then the less power the better.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Whatever Language Pakistan understands India should teach in that language

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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?

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.

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

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

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