Language Quotes

You have to think an awful lot about your motivations or people's behavioral intentions or what their body language can indicate or what's really going on or what makes people sometimes do, sometimes, the irrational things they do.

Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved with the handwriting and then the look of the handwriting.

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.

I would love to do a period piece - in the 18th or 17th century. To me, it would be such an incredible challenge because of the way people carried themselves. There are so many incredible stories within those centuries - just the language and the way they carried themselves and what they were going through.

Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.

Duty is the most sublime word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less.

Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families.

The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise?

Words may be false and full of art; Sighs are the natural language of the heart.

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.

While a people preserves its language; it preserves the marks of liberty.

Now, mark it. This may be strong language, but heed it. The people mean it, and, my friends of the Eastern Democracy, we bid farewell when you do that thing.

You know, they were returning to the language of the people and trying to use musical language, particularly as Copland did to create a musical language in which all Americans would feel that they had a stake.

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.

One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language.

We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language.

Coffee is a language in itself.

There was no language barrier when it came to kids, and when it came to play.

More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English language than any other single factor.

Actually, my correspondent's language is better than mine. He can put his sentiment into words.

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

Language changes very fast.

Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.

The poem is the literary form of the 21st century. It's able to connect young people in a deep way to language... it's language as play.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

The economic piece is still missing, since it's so hard to attract industry to reservations, but spiritually and educationally, they're doing just fine. Each tribe has a community college now, and they teach the language, they teach the traditions.

What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.