Language Quotes

At the same time, new concepts and abstractions flow into the picture, taking up the task of describing the universe without reference to such time or space - abstractions for which our language lacks adequate terms.

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.

I still have a feeling that I haven't written the best that I can write. I think all poets must feel this: that there is constantly something new to be discovered in the language. It's like a thrilling encounter, and you can find things.

Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.

True creativity often starts where language ends.

Instrumental music can spread the international language.

The language you are about to hear... is disturbing.

I loved everything about Spain - the people, the language, and the food!

It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.

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

It would, of course, be hopeless to attempt to crowd into an international language all those local overtones of meaning which are so dear to the heart of the nationalist.

Certainly, because the computer and computer language was still not as common as it is today. That's one of the reasons I believe Tron wasn't as popular back then as it is today.

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

They cannot make it say what they want it to say. And this is the beginning and the end of the case for retaining the old language: If the churches give it up, who will remember how to say what is said?

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

We have language and they do not. Chimps communicate by embracing, patting, looking - all these things. And they have lots of sounds. But they cannot sit and discuss. They cannot teach about things that are not present, as far as we know.

A different language is a different vision of life.

We should never denigrate any other culture but rather help people to understand the relationship between their own culture and the dominant culture. When you understand another culture or language, it does not mean that you have to lose your own culture.

I think the main thing was that the character couldn't speak in regular language, so he had to be mimed.

Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.

Well, I like how people talk. I like language. You know, Linda Richman spoke in Yiddish.

I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.

Human language... prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.

The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating.

When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies.

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.

Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.

Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.

The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.

No statement about God is simply, literally true. God is far more than can be measured, described, defined in ordinary language, or pinned down to any particular happening.