Language Quotes

Poetry is an art practiced with the terribly plastic material of human language.

My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.

Even though language has its richness the relationship between language and the writer is always like a stone and you have to make the stone human.

Subversive language, however, must be constantly reinvented, because it is continually being co-opted by the powerful.

While men's rights are guaranteed by specific language in the Constitution, women's equal rights aren't mentioned.

While women across the globe have many differences - language, culture, environment - our similarities are undeniable, and the impact of abuse and oppression affects us all.

Sebastian sighed an exaggerated sigh and swung the door shut. Clary stared at Jace. "What the f-" "Language, Fray." Jace's eyes danced. "Relax.

trying to read his face. It was like a book written in a foreign language she'd studied all too briefly.

Sometimes, you just have to reassure the ones you love in precise language that you'll always be there. Sometimes words are enough.

It's Latin, which is an excellent language for mischief-making, which is why governments are so fond of it.

Language is of divine origin.. Some may know this but do not realize its implications in their daily family life. Love at home starts with loving language.

that your power of command with simple language was one of the magnificent things of our century. (from the poem: result)

Even, she thought, even without the gift of witchsight, there was more beauty to be found in the world than could ever be snared in language or music. And with the sight.

Humans are just barely intelligent tool users; Darwinian evolutionary selection stopped when language and tool use converged, leaving the average hairy meme carrier sadly deficient in smarts.

Babies and language are the essential ingredients of civilization, and speakers of language no more know where it came from than babies know where they come from.

You and I who read and write books have very little effect upon language. We may think about it, write about it, and read about it, but it goes on without us, or in spite of us.

Language is a living thing. It must survive in men's minds and on their tongues if it survives at all.

Civilization could not exist until there was written language, because without written language no generation could bequeath to succeeding generations anything but its simpler findings.

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.

I have a great advantage: I write from the perspective of my own voice. I'm not copying anyone's voice. It's my voice. I have the advantage of being a writer of English as a second language.

When you're reading from a different language that's different from your own, it's not the same as being fluent.

I mean, we should only be talking about the merits of film ["Moonlight"] because one of the great things about the visual language is that it is the great equalizer.

The audience I'm targeting doesn't care about the language spoken in the films they watch. They're interested in more important things like story, performance, cinematography etc.

My favourite films are in languages I don't understand.

It is not quite true to say that I am not an advocate of writing in African languages. What I think is, one has to think about what is practicable.

I want, more than anything, to bring some light back to people's lives through my music. The beauty of music is that it is a universal language that everyone understands.

You have to be mad in the language you're mad in.

While I have questions about the language used in describing the two economic systems, I think people have fairly good gut sense of the difference between socialism and capitalism.

It behaves more like a tribe than a democratic institution...responding to custom rather than reason and using its own liturgy and language for the conduct of its domestic affairs.

Comics are not a genre, but a developing language.

Story is the mother of us all. First we wrap our lives in language and then we act on who we say we are. We proceed from the word into the world and make a world based on our stories.

We cannot think without language, we cannot process experience without story.

Flaubert was right when he said that our use of language is like a cracked kettle on which we bang out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we need to move the very stars to pity.

Even if language is a living evolving organism, we don't have to embrace all the changes that occur during our lifetimes. If language is so alive, it can get sick.

Ooo ahe-e, I aya oa a," she said in yawnspeak, a language - not unlike Hawaiian - known for its paucity of consonants.

The government favors the most diplomatic language. That's why any letter to them should always start with, "Dear turkeys and foul maggots..."

Somebody said to me that I speak English almost like somebody for whom English is not their first language.

I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a second language.

We've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first.

Language is what books do very well and movement is what movies does very well.

Lets take the best of our ideas from Global Drucker Forum, and the best of our language, and then focus and clarify.

If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code

Our language has become a tired and inefficient thing in the hands of journalists and writers who have nothing to say.

The best armor against everything around you is to be well educated, to work hard, to be twice as good as if you had to be, to do languages and culture better.

I just want the actors to put their faith in the language. Just let the words do the work.

I've always felt, even as a songwriter, that the rhythm of speech is in itself a language for me.

Language makes culture, and we make a rotten culture when we abuse words.

Above all, a book is a riverbank for the river of language. Language without the riverbank is only television talk - a free fall, a loose splash, a spill.

If ideas are what feed serious literature and arresting language, who today is writing a novel of ideas (which can often mean comedy)? I think of Joshua Cohen. Who else?

The American language is in a state of flux based upon survival of the unfittest.