Language Quotes
Language is like looking at a map of somewhere. Love is living there and surviving on the land.
Language is like drinking from one's own reflection in still water. We only take from it what we are at the time.
To create a language all of a piece which would be a women's language, that I find quite insane. There does not exist a mathematics which is only a women's mathematics, or a feminine science.
If the writer is a woman, feminist or not, it will give the language something that it would not have if it had been used by a man.
You can't address yourself to women by speaking a language which no average woman will understand. In my opinion, it's wrong.
One thing for sure is it will be written in the Icelandic language. All of my literary work is.
I will just take the chance that the language will still be relevant in 100 years, which is something we cannot take for granted with a language that is spoken by 330,000 people.
Dialogue, contrary to popular view, is not a recording of actual speech; it is a semblance of speech, an invented language of exchanges that build in tempo or content toward climaxes.
For me, rather than the language, the Hollywood system of making movies was a tremendous learning experience.
Even if I'm in Japan and I don't speak Japanese and the woman facing me doesn't speak French but she's dressed in Rykiel, and she recognizes me, then we have a common language right away.
Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages; they have learned to understand and be understood by all.
Music is thousands and thousands of years old and I don't think that basic, primitive connection to the language of music ever changes.
If it's a language you don't understand and you're not concerned with the meanings of the words, your impression comes from how the words look, particularly if the language uses different characters.
Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and dead.
My worst holiday was in Athens when I was a young drama student at Rada in 1965. I ran out of money. I had my things stolen and I wasn't able to speak a word of the language.
People can try to make me into anything they want, but I think they're really throwing around language but saying the same thing.
I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own, ideally.
Romance is a universally unspoken language understood by all living organism on this planet except heterosexual men.
One can choose to obsess over prescriptive rules, but they have no more to do with human language than the criteria for judging cats at a cat show have to do with mammalian biology.
People are under the impression that dictionaries legislate language. What a dictionary does is keep track of usages over time.
Language is a window into human nature, but it is also a fistula, an open wound through which we're exposed to an infectious world.
Want to know where the action in a culture is? Watch where new language is turning up and where the lawyers collect, usually in that sequence.
Language is one of the thin walls humanity has built up over centuries against its own bestial and destructive impulses.
Language is filled with words for deprivation images so familiar it is hard to crack language open into that other country the country of being.
My own view is that one cannot be religious in general any more than one can speak language in general; at any given moment one speaks French or English or Swahili or Japanese, but not 'language.
Real thinking is possible only in the light of genuine language, no matter how limited, how primitive.
For centuries, everything was taught through music. History was taught through music; language and mathematics were taught through music.
I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.
We speak the love language, they speak from pain and anguish. Some don't love theyselves, so they perception is tainted.
Hip hop is at its essence a folk music, because it speaks the language that people are still speaking at ground zero, it speaks the language that people speak on the streets.
If we are not most careful with our thoughts and speech, the words we use will use us. Language has its own ethics, and one who communicates truth is like a bright light in the darkness.
My mind works like Google for images. You put in a key word; it brings up pictures. See language for me narrates the pictures in my mind.
What I think is going on is that probably language was entertainment long before it was meaning. It's a kind of tuneless singing.
Culture is more and more consciously becoming a project carried out in the domain of language by, for instance, propaganda both governmental and commercial.
This unique strategy that the advanced primates created, the strategy of using language to bind time, is what the process we call 'civilization' has been all about.
Obviously, it's some kind of freely commanded modality in the psyche with which we can have a relationship if we will but evolve a control language and a dialogue. And it remains mysterious.
Closure is a neurotic and infantile demand to make upon reality, other people, or language.