Language Quotes

I knew that I would speak in the language of the vanquished No more durable than old customs, family rituals, Christmas tinsel, and once a year the hilarity of carols.

We think of history as another specialization, like philosophy of language, rather than as something that informs everything we do and think.

C++ tries to guard against Murphy, not Machiavelli.

And I have a dream of a New American Language, one with a little bit more Spanish. I have a dream of a new pop music, that tells the truth with a good beat and some nice harmonies.

So learning to play a new instrument, learning a new language - those sorts of things will pay dividends for years or decades to come.

This is every writer's nightmare - the sudden breakdown of meaning in the language that sustains and supports us.

Precision about language can be really, really annoying. It can make you miss the point of what the other person is saying altogether.

When you speak a new language you must see if you can translate all of the poetry of your old language into the new one.

I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies.

When I write characters, I need to hear their voice. As soon as I get them speaking, and I feel how they use language, I understand who they are and what they want.

When I started writing seriously in high school, English was the language I had at my disposal - my Spanish was domestic, colloquial, and not particularly literary or sophisticated.

I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.

I feel like I understood the language of comics. I had a real fluidity with that medium at a very early age.

When a language advances and adds a third term to its lexicon for color, the third term is always red.

I had never really done voice-over. If you've ever seen me, I'm more the communicator through body language and movement I'm a physical actor.

It's interesting, editing can be so immersive for me that I've noticed that the authors I edit have a pretty profound effect on how I hear language for a while.

I believe a good memoir should have all of the narrative elements of a novel: character development, dialogue, descriptive language, and metaphor.

I think music is another language.

We have evolved to understand that language of power that's taken too much.

The language you are about to hear... is disturbing.

You pay your money, you take your choice. I get the audience my language attracts and I lose the ones it repels.

The truth of no truths becomes, inevitably, truth: a way of naming being, language, and culture that guards the boundaries of thought against claims it has not validated.

Language is a personality as well. People are different when they speak different languages.

I would say recently I've gotten back to perusing [Samuel] Beckett's novels. Listening to the way Donald Trump speaks without saying anything has made me think about language.

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

It's nonsense to say that it's not in the bill. The reality is that the bill they will have passed to the Senate will have this language in it.

We possess books we read, animating the waiting stillness of their language, but they possess us also, filling us with thoughts and observations, asking us to make them part of ourselves.

I believe in a visual language that should be as strong as the written word.

Guess who's running for president? Jeb Bush. Jeb was governor of Florida and he speaks fluent Spanish, which raises the question: What language did his brother speak? What was that?

Deep down, you see, I long to be arcane, esoteric. I would love to confound people with their own language.

I'm swimming in your cadences that you permeate my very language.

I do feel like the hardest thing is to do something simple and tap into whatever remains of our common language rather than cultivating your own willfully esoteric vocabulary.

What I loved about it was language-wise it wasn't that finely-tuned-perfect-insult-for-the-perfect-situation that sometimes we try and do on Veep.

I owe my own fluency with language to Brooklyn. Everyone talked about everything, from the Dodgers to the revolution.

Mathematics to me is like a language I don’t speak though I admire its literature in translation.

I feel like really thinking about art and really appreciating it and learning the language of it just makes you more of a connoisseur. I believe that.

If (early humans) weren't using and refining language I would like to know what they were doing with their autocatalytically increasing brains.

To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions

Eighty percent of language lies to us.

I think the most annoying language is a tie between all the ones I don't know how to speak.

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Physical expression was my first language: Before I was an actor, I was a dancer, an acrobat, a mime and a street performer.

The foreign-language Oscar is something that doesn't go to the producer or the director; it goes to the country.

There are no easy words for the insights of the spirit, and approximate language used in good faith can cause approximate truths to spread like a disease.

Programming languages are like girlfriends: The new one is better because *you* are better.

A language Older Than Words

There is room for everyone; there is room for every culture, race, language and point of view.

Africa. There are a gazillion different languages people speak there, different bone structures, so vast and different.

Poetry is one of the essential structures of civilization - carrying myth, ritual, 'tales of the tribe' and the essence of language.

Sometimes the archaism of the language when it's spoken is why we are all in love with the Irish today.