Language Quotes

Language, identity and forms of life are the terms in which political demands are shaped and voiced.

As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the human language is the possibility of lying.

Information comes through to me in 3 basic ways seen, hearing, and feeling the energy of the person that's crossed over. In which it is a symbolic type of language.

Language is much closer to film than painting is.

Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects?

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

That's so different in Hong Kong when I'm using my own mother language, I can treat the line in one thousand different ways, with many different reactions.

English poetry begins whenever we decide to say the modern English language begins, and it extends as far as we decide to say that the English language extends.

I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.

Nothing exists except through language.

The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.

I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of content in the world. Language content, musical content, spatial content, numerical content, etc.

There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for example, a workshop can liberate the students' use of the vocabulary they're acquiring.

The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost and what is gained in the linguistic transition.

The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.

Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.

Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.

I don't know if I'm truly at home in any language.

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

In the GNOME project we tried to keep the platform language independent.

The opening and closing ceremonies of the London Olympics are mass satanic rituals disguised as a celebration of Britain and sport. Their medium is the language of symbolism.

Realistically, English is a universal language; it's the number one language for music and for communicating with the rest of the world.

I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England.

I do know where I'm going and it's just a matter of finding the language to get there.

English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen.

I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965.

Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.

In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a sort of accompaniment to the signified.

Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.

Language is memory and metaphor.

Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.

I grew up with the piano. I learned its language as I learned to speak.

If a person plays dissonance long enough, it will sound like consonance. It's a language that was alien and then it's less and less alien as it continues to live.

My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language.

I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet.

I do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not allow me to take.

Language is the dress of thought.

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

The idea is that the object has a language unto itself.

Appropriation was the language of my generation in many ways. It came out of Duchamp, Warhol, Johns, Lichtenstein.

Language is my bugbear. Everyone says things now like 'I was sat' instead of 'I was sitting', which just sounds so ugly.

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

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

I want to keep talking about my people and my country in my own language.

In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.

If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.

Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.

Music is the universal language of mankind.

When the heart speaks, its language is the same under all latitudes.

I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.

Music is a language.

Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think.

Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around.

Language cares.

'Rednecks' always made me nervous to play, but I'm glad I wrote it and I continue to play it. It's just that the language is so rough.

I always squirm when I read what's called 'creative nonfiction,' and the writer is lobbing gobs of emotion and language at the world, hoping some of it will stick.

We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.

I'm very interested in the language of photography in relationship to painting.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

I could speak Spanish fluently growing up, but I'm so out of practice, and I have such a tremendous respect for songwriting in the Spanish language.

The world's most famous and popular language is music.

My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.

I'm a professor of media studies as well as humanities, and I'm an evangelist of popular culture, but when there's only media, then there's going to be a slow debasement of language, and that's what I think we're fighting.

A gloss is a total system of perception and language.

The Australian way of affirmative action is setting goals and recognising discrimination and lack of opportunity and deciding to take action and setting some goals and targets. I guess I prefer that language to talking about quotas.

Language is a social art.

Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption.

Music is a language, you see, a universal language.

Ask, 'How are we different from the great apes?' We have culture, we have civilisation, and we have language to be celebrated as part of being human.

Freedom of expression is not absolute. Countries have laws that define the framework for exercising this right and which, for instance, condemn racist language.

I've never lived in an English-speaking country, ever, but I lived in Austria. So, my second language is German. And when I went to school, I had a lot of classes in English.