Language Quotes
If we want to be heard we must speak in a language the listener can understand and on a level at which the listener is capable of operating.
I think in general I've never dared compose in Spanish. First of all, it is such an intricate language.
As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did we come from, what happens next?' The ability to remember the past helps us plan the future.
Storytelling draws on the magic of language to created Elsewheres. Writers use a linguistic sleight-of-hand to take an attribute, attach them to new objects, and create enchantment.
In another thirty years people will laugh at anyone who tries to invent a language without closures, just as they'll laugh now at anyone who tries to invent a language without recursion.
A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years.
I think that’s what Toni Morrison and Alice Walker understand, the secret language of women. That it’s not a secret at all; men just don’t know how to listen.
The reader is the content of any poem or of the language he employs, and in order to use any of these forms, he must put them on.
Those who use language and have nothing but language to express themselves live in a cage that cannot feel comfortable.
To lovers of the long and intricate history of language the disuse and final death of certain words is a matter of regret. Yet every age bears witness to the inevitableness of such loss.
I think photography is a universal language as far as storytelling goes, and I think that's what it's most successful at.
Our language, once homely and colloquial, seeks to aggrandize our meanest activities with polysyllabic terms or it retreats from frankness into a stammering verbosity.
The three ingredients of poetry: the mystery of the universe, spiritual curiosity, the energy of language.
The trouble is, old age is not interesting until one gets there. It's a foreign country with an unknown language to the young and even to the middle-aged.
Go to countries where you don't speak the language. Eat food that looks like you may not like it. Read all of the holy books.
With .NET once an API is published it's available to all programming languages at the same time.
Understanding that these statements do not represent reality, we should not be threatened by the language that he has used.
Faction is the greatest evil and the most common danger. "Faction" is the conventional English translation of the Greek stasis, one of the most remarkable words to be found in any language.
Feeling is the language of the soul. If you want to know what's true for you about something, look to how you're feeling about it.
The whole reason to study (and learn to control) body language is to have that support (rather than undercut) your message.
I think a very important aspect of language has to do with the establishment of social relations and interactions. Often, this is described as communication. But that is very misleading, I think.
How amazing that the language of a few thousand savages living on a fog-encrusted island in the North Sea should become the language of the world.
The Australian language is easier to learn than boat talk. It has a vocabulary of about six words.
When babies listen, what they're doing is taking statistics on the language that they hear.
On the day of the show, I sit down with someone that speaks very good English and someone who speaks the local language very well and work out what I'm going to say.
Language is our body and our breath, our world and our thought, our perception and even out unconscious.
When fundamentalism comes to kill, it can kill with the language - the Apostle James says this, not me - and even with a knife, no?
Why should I ? I don't need to run down my opponent through filthy language in order to win. The voters don't expect this from their representatives.
I know ours is a world made by men for men, their dictatorship is so ancient it even extends to language.
You're kidding. I thought all geniuses read Latin. Isn't that the international language for smart people?"-Shane (Glass Houses)
We have only the language for fun and miserable, and maybe we need language for deep and shallow, meaningful and meaningless.
I had trouble listening to adults who didn't really mean anything that they said; it was as if their language poured into my ears only to drain right out a little spigot in the back of my head.
The language of politics is poetry, not prose. Jackson is poetry. Cuomo is poetry. Dukakis is a word processor.
Now we have this idea that, not only do you go to first grade to learn your family's language, but you go to a university to learn about the person you were before you left home.
The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-granted by the persons who used it as our language is by ourselves. Nothing strange about it.
Language follows its own path. It can bridge gulfs of class and geography in the most remarkable ways.
If there is ever a science of programming language design, it will probably consist largely of matching languages to the design methods they support.
It seemed to me as if the stones sang, in the strangest voices, in the language of Ultima Thule.
A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms.
The poem is not only the point of origin for all the language and narrative arts, the poem returns us to the very social function of art as such.
