Language Quotes
A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax; no greater liability than a command of language.
I feel my poetry has contributed through all these languages that I needed to learn leading up to English.
Was there a little time between the invention of language and the coming of true and false?
The nature of language may determine what most people say, but I always speak my own meaning.
I don't think all poems need to be written in conversational language - those are often great poems but there should also be poems of incoherent bewilderment and muddled mystery.
Writing a poem is always a process of subtracting: you start with all of language available to you, and you choose a smaller field.
Maine election law specifies that anyone who is qualified to access the voter file must keep it confidential. And that is directory language. Making the list available is discretionary under the law.
Go is such a refreshing language to program in, there is very little clutter just the stuff you need to get the job done
That choice to be ready to reject all other purposes, in favor of the possibilities of language freed from utility, is when the writer becomes a poet.
Ancient and modern languages teem with happily expressed sentiments of more or less force and beauty, sufficiently individualized and excellent to warrant their reproduction and classification.
Welsh is an actual, currently used language and our next-door neighbors Angela and Gaenor spoke it. It sounds like Wizard.
We may not see the connection between the name Jesus and the phrase "save his people from their sins," but Joseph would have. He was familiar with the Hebrew language.
The idea of working with Steven Spielberg was very attractive. He's such a master. He knows the language of the camera and of filmmaking, which gives him a great freedom.
I read the Bible to myself; I'll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.
If I'm going to a new country, I try to learn something about the language and the culture, so I don't just go bumbling over things.
There is a great beauty in every language and there is a great language in every beauty! Be silent and listen to them!
When somebody speaks a language that we don't know, we often imagine that some important things are being said!
Never underestimate the value of knowing another's language. It can be far more powerful than swords and arrows.
I want to be able to control things and that's very difficult to do if you're not 100% in a particular language. It makes you uncertain and it makes you nervous.
The idea that language can be recombined to create new forms, new things, is of course very old in poetry.
I'm interested in a lot of the languages that drive our culture. I'm interested in user experience as language or how societal malaise takes root.
Capitalism is, in Mao's language, the main contradiction in the world today and so our efforts have to be focused on ending this system and making a new one.
Each composer has their own language, and I try to meet the challenges, even if at first sight, they appear impossible.
An ancient father says that a dog we know is better company than a man whose language we do not understand.
Fairy tales are my natural language. I feel at ease telling fairy tales like a fish feels in water. I am totally free.
In any area of the UN we ... have to agree on certain language that can represent the same spirit, but that can be accepted by everyone.
I think being able to speak different languages, and being able to act in those languages is something that's really very rewarding.
Whenever I get a chance to work in a different language, or in a different accent, or anything like that, I'm game. I think it's a great challenge and something to be done.
The pen is the language of the soul; as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings.
The language Mr. Obama uses is refreshingly different from that of his predecessor, George W. Bush.
In certain places, not always, there are moments where I tried to convey in English a sense of foreignness. I wanted the reader to get the sense that another language is being spoken.
People are often shy to acknowledge that they are Bengalis. They somehow take pride in saying that they cannot speak or read the language.
As a matter of fact, Latin America's economy is almost as big as the economy of China. We're all focused on China. Latin America is a huge opportunity for America - time zone, language opportunities.
While some of my closest friends were jocks, it seemed that they spoke a different language with each other. Joining in their conversation was fraught with risk.
I tell my students to think of poems as language plus, language with value added beyond its everyday use.