Language Quotes
What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.
To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.
We don't have any splits here. The players country is Liverpool Football Club and their language is football.
Anacalypsis: An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil of the Saitic or an Inquiry into the Origin of Languages, Nations and Religions.
I have always maintained that translation is essentially the closest reading one can possibly give a text. The translator cannot ignore "lesser" words, but must consider every jot and tittle.
A translator is essentially a reader and we all read differently, except that a translator's reading remains in unchanging print
A powerful programming language is more than just a means for instructing a computer to perform tasks. The language also serves as a framework within which we organize our ideas about processes.
Sometimes I try to improve the language, the lines, or the delivery, but I don't ad-lib because I think that makes it really hard for everybody else involved.
A critic is a person who rationalizes his likes and dislikes in such impressive language that the layman thinks he is reasoning instead of rationalizing.
I love variety. I love theater. I also love radio. I love language. But, the older you get, you need to earn money. You need to heighten your profile.
In Job and the Psalms we shall find more sublime ideas, more elevated language, than in any of the heathen versifiers of Greece or Rome.
I have no leisure to think of style or of polish, or to select the best language, the best English - no time to shine as an authoress. I must just think aloud, so as not to keep the public waiting.
Because I cannot write my native language and have no native home anymore, and am amazed by that horrible homelessness of all French-Canadian s abroad in America.
I don't have children. I serve the world and I serve God by living as deep within my work as I can, reveling in the language of other times and putting it forth for the world.
In Eastern lands they talk in flowers, And they tell in a garland their loves and cares; Each blossom that blooms in their garden bowers, On its leaves a mystic language bears.
I think all art - if it's good - is a result of really trying to create something that you can't put into words. Where language ends is where good art begins.
Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise.
That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isn't a hiding place. It is a finding place.
Music is so hard to talk about in many ways, It communicates beyond what our language can put across, and having to sit there and analyze it and talk about it is a struggle for me.
What if it were true that nature speaks in signs and that the secret to understanding its language consists in noticing similarities in shape or in form?
The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.
Everybody needs to understand that I learned Arabic from the United States Army as a second language. I never spoke it at home.
I will not allow my daughters to learn foreign languages because one tongue is sufficient for a woman.
The undoubted sign of a society well under control or in decline is that language has ceased to be a means of communication and has become instead a shield for those who master it.
The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
Because Music is a language that lives in the spiritual realms, we can hear it, we can notate it and create it, but we cannot hold it in our hands
The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood.
The current transgender movement is composed of a great number of factions, divided by those old favorites of class, race, age, language, region, and nationality.
Every actor you work with has a different method, same with the director. You have to figure out what your shared language is and how to best support each other, and also take care of yourself.
Japanese is a baby talk - very, very hard to read, very, very, easy to talk. ... A very faint kind of language.
Hard as I try, daddy-o, I really do not like concert singers. They are always singing in some foreign language.
I got a bit obsessed with the whole English language and was writing journals and poetry. I've always been intrigued about psychology and philosophy and how people's minds work.
Even trained for years as they all had been in precision of language, what words could you use which would give another the experience of sunshine?
Writers are not mere copyists of language; they are polishers, embellishers, perfecters. They spend hours getting the timing right so that what they write sounds completely unrehearsed.
Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier.
I like the idea that I can talk to any teenage girls. You know, in a language that makes sense to them.
What else is the power of melody but the power of feeling? Music is the language of feeling; melody is audible feeling - feeling communicating itself.
