Language Quotes

We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.

No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.

One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language.

Indeed, if a chief question does remain: how is the power to think possible? - The power to think right and left, before and without, with and above experience? then it does not take a deduction to prove the genealogical priority of language.

Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.

Metaphor is embodied in language.

Every actor you work with has a different method, same with the director. You have to figure out what your shared language is and how to best support each other, and also take care of yourself.

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

He was one of those inexplicable gifts of nature, an artist who leaps over boundaries, changes our nervous systems, creates a new language, transmits new kinds of joy to our startled senses and spirits.

My least favorite phrase in the English language is "I don't care."

In English, I'm a little bit limited. I speak English as a second language, and that's a little limitation that I have to work around and I have to use it to my favor. So, yes, that's why I end up wanting to do more things in Latin America.

When a film is created, it is created in a language, which is not only about words, but also the way that very language encodes our perception of the world, our understanding of it.

Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work.

I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.

I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.

My French is still good. That's a beautiful language and I'm happy to speak it.

Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage.

To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language.

High thoughts must have high language.

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

I was always getting run-down from jet lag and being in strange towns where I didn't speak the language or know what the food was like.

I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct us toward ultimate reality.

If I were assigned poems I suppose I'd write more of them but it is entirely voluntary and for the most part ignored in the market sense of the word so the language to me is most intimate, most important, most sublime and most satisfying when it gets done.

I have never designed a language for its own sake.

The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression.

If you have a craftsman's command of the language and basic writing techniques you'll be able to write - as long as you know what you want to say.

Of course the other and more serious way in which it all happens is that one finds in poems and language some quality one appropriates for oneself and wishes to reproduce.

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

The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.

So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to make films without words.