Language Quotes

Certain things were deemed to be offensive. It was usually bad language.

In 'A Royal Affair' I had to learn to act like a queen and learned Danish. It's so much different to act in another language. It's the nuances in the words.

Some people accuse the new generation of being ignorant, maybe ignorant for the old generation, but it's a new language.

And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation.

Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is.

My mom and my dad wanted my brother and I to have a better life, you know, better education, better jobs. It was probably harder, much, much harder, for my parents. When you're a kid, you can learn a language much more easily; I learned English in less than a year.

The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational. That's just a part of the language of jazz - at a certain point.

What appeals to me? There are things, points of view, uses of the language, habits of dress, ways of thought and believing that came to me from my grandparents and came to them from theirs. Things that are of good use in any situation, no matter what the future may hold.

The Internet is not just one thing, it's a collection of things - of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language.

It was real Cheyenne. I would get the translations the night before, but it was very difficult because it was not like any other language you would be familiar with.

A common creation demands a common sacrifice, and perhaps not the least potent argument in favour of a constructed international language is the fact that it is equally foreign, or apparently so, to the traditions of all nationalities.

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.

As we embrace the American dream and the freedoms it represents, we must also ensure that those who wish to enjoy those freedoms become a part of our society and learn to speak our language.

Feelings or emotions are the universal language and are to be honored. They are the authentic expression of who you are at your deepest place.

The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it.

The language of my books has shaped me as a man.

When you're five years old, and you're running a business that people did not think there was room for, getting attention is not a bad thing. Letting it be known by whatever colorful language is necessary is not a bad thing.

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.

Honestly, I'm cool with everyone, and people pick up on that. I'd say, 'I'm not gay, but it's all good.' It's kind of like going to Paris when you don't know the language; some Americans get into trouble over there, but I'm just like, 'Sorry, I don't speak French.'

Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.

I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically, and most of the time actors can find wonderful clues about character in the rhythm and cadence of the language used.

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.

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.

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

With the requests of some he complied, and has published a discourse, delivered before the Society for recovering drowned persons, which may be justly pronounced one of the most beautiful and interesting sermons in the English language.

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

I love to laugh, it's my main thing. I love to abuse the English language.

It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.