Top 1200 Power Of Language Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

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

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

I wanted to learn Latin and Greek and become a poet and acquire power over language. I only understand this clearly in retrospect, that my ability to study came from a hunger to learn all the resources of articulation.

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.

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

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

When people say that German or any other language is romantic... all they really mean is that they've enjoyed a past in the language

The more comprehensive your language is, the more likely people are to believe everything you're saying. It really just comes from the power of knowing you're the smartest person in the room, and if you aren't, you're definitely going to sound like it.

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.

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.

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

Music is the language of all. It tames the savage beast and allows us to get over heartbreak. It helps us express what we really want to say and it has the power to lift hearts and awaken our souls.

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

To me the drawn language is a very revealing language: one can see in a few lines whether a man is really an architect.

TV is a language all its own, a land of one dimensional stereotypes that destroys culture, not adds to it. TV is anti-art, a reflection of consumerism that serves the power structure. TV is about demographics.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The power of nature exists in its silence. Human words cannot encode the meaning because human language has access only to the shadow of meaning.

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.

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

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

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)

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

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.

Words have power. The power to soothe. The power to skewer someone through the heart. The power to render someone speechless.

The power to tax involves the power to destroy;...the power to destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create.

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

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

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

There are a lot of people who believe that the individual can't make it himself. And that's why people want to join up in various herds - herd formation. So you become part of a herd, a group. Group power of some kind. There's an awful lot of group power people in our country [the USA] - Black power, Chinese power, Indian power, woman power. Everyone is putting in together.

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

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.

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

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

There's a certain power in vague language, but I started to get more into the idea of really trying to have a discrete thought in the lyrics and to have songs that were about stuff - to try to make things more coherent.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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 met people that I couldn't talk to - they didn't speak Spanish or English - but they knew my songs. That's what I love, the music has gone past where I thought it would get to. That's the power of music, how it can travel and break language barriers.

Linguistic supersizing is on the increase, and it may show the influence of advertising-speak and corporate jargon on language, in which everything needs to be hyped to get noticed. It means that some of our greatest words are losing their power.

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

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

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

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

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

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

This bill, by vesting the power to withhold or terminate Federal funds, creates a concentration of power of economic coercion unequaled in the history of governments-a power concentration which defies the experience of mankind with the temptation of power to corrupt.

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.

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

It's important if you can do good with power. And Jesus defined power, true power is to serve, to do service, to do the most humble services, and I must still make progress on this path of service because I feel that I don't do everything I should do. That's the sense I have of power.