Language Quotes

It seems to me that it is psyche in a way that has become occluded by the perverse development of language.

I'm proposing on one level that hallucinogens be thought of as almost as social pheromones that regulate the rate at which language develops, and therefore regulate human culture generally.

It seems to me that right under the surface of human neurological organization is a mode shift of some sort that would make language beholdable.

I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out.

Language always pre-exists us: it is always already 'in place', waiting to assign us our places within it.

It is language which speaks in literature, in all its swarming 'polysemic' plurality, not the author himself.

It is at this point that normal language gives up, and goes and has a drink.

My programming language was solder.

I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.

It must be powerful language if you canna make oout what the heel it’s goin’ on aboot!

The jargon of authenticity ... is a trademark of societalized chosenness, ... sub-language as superior language.

Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out.

Language is the machine of the poet.

What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words.... Be not the slave of Words.

A people without a language of its own, is only half a nation.

The language of the age is never the language of poetry, except among the French, whose verse, where the thought or image does not support it, differs in nothing from prose.

I do not pretend that language is science. It isan instrument for the attainment of science.

While learning the language in France a young man's morals, health and fortune are more irresistibly endangered than in any country of the universe.

Three problems we have: lack of boundaries, insufficient language, incompletions.

I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as ABC, hold up truth to your eyes.

Language learning deserves special mention. It is, bar none, the best thing you can do to hone clear thinking.

Seemingly unrelated [things] that are in fact really related, that's the stuff I like to talk about. Like dancing, language learning, swimming, three-pointers.

That kind of language is what makes us laugh. Like, "Well, just eFax that to me, and I'll take a look at it."

Doing TV is a different kind of language.

The film language is still in development and the traditional dialogue is the biggest problem because nobody knows how to interpret it in 3D world.

Make it, not make it? What's the difference? Music is a language, it's a dance of life, and it can be a part of your life without being something that earns.

Our world isn't made of earth, air and water or even molecules and atoms; our world is made of language.

We use so much bad language that it forms a barrier between ourselves and the truth.

The bible is not a religious experience for me. This book bundles together the entire culture of Judaism: our language, our history, our geography. God is merely a byproduct of the bible.

Language can never 'pin down' slavery, genocide, war. Nor should it yearn for the arrogance to be able to do so. Its force, its felicity, is in its reach toward the ineffable.

After meeting the family, they really felt like a sitcom family, ... I thought it would be cool if we did a reality show, but told it with the visual language of a sitcom format.

I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.

My communication with aliens is not verbal - we speak the language of light.

Language achieves soul only when it's applied as a tool, used by those who imbue it with what they have had the courage and honesty to perceive and feel.

Animation taught me to draw quickly and clearly and to communicate a character's feelings through his or her body language and facial expressions.

The language is spare and under control and has a genuine immediacy...The poems never preach but are lined out with a cool and therefore devastating effect

I've been in New York only a few days and I have learned only two words of your language: one is Swell, and the other is Lousy. ... 'It's swell to be with you and excuse, please, my lousy English!

Sci-Fi is incredibly challenging and has its own language. I have to speak its language; it's not going to learn mine.

Speaking more than one language and living in a multicultural family and environment did not seem like anything but what it was: the world I lived in.

Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.

Even today no computer can understand language as well as a three-year-old or see as well as a mouse.

Ransack the language as he might, words failed him. He wanted another landscape, and another tongue.

I don't yet know what style will be required for my next novel, but my sense is that each book will involve a new relationship to language.

My interest in language is steadfast, but I think each project and its accompanying intentions dictate how language must be used.

It is impossible to translate poetry. Can you translate music?

The poet marries the language, and out of this marriage the poem is born.

Human language is mythological and metaphorical by nature.

The key is that Jesus does want to speak to us-to you-today. In your own language, just as a friend would speak. We simply need to take the time to listen.

Language expresses people's thinking and it was by a Word that God created the world and preserves it.

Next in criminality to him who violates the laws of his country, is he who violates the language.