Language Quotes

Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern.

And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an intimate medium of television, and that we can do reading and language development for young children without getting into human sexuality.

In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system.

In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.

Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply mean that and that the same genes that make parents talkative make children articulate.

People use location as a language in films, and Quentin uses action as a language in his films. There's really not a lot of violence. It's more of an emotional beat than it is a physical beat.

Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure upon his taste, surround himself with books, all in his own language, and thence forward have at least one place in the world.

I don't feel restricted by the language: I feel more free.

I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor.

I like to play with someone who can cover a lot of ground and someone with whom you can discuss the language at a reasonable level; otherwise it gets a bit frustrating.

French is a language that makes those who speak it both calm and dynamic.

Although I'm not fluent in sign language by a long way, I could have a fairly decent conversation.

The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. Not just in a 'free beer' kind of way, but also in the free speech kind of way.

Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health.

The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French.

If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.

In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.

Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground.

Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language.

In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social factors, one's own language above all.

All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously incomprehensible to our soul now become the meaningful language of nature.

As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.

Science is the international language, so when we are able to convince countries that good decision-making for human health and animal health is based upon science, that's a real success story for us.

But those two plays left me on fresh terms with language. I didn't always have to speak in my own voice.

Keep a journal, and learn how to see how you as an individuals sees information so you can learn your own sign language. Meditate and practice psychic self defense and surrounding yourself with prayer.

Somebody said to me that I speak English almost like somebody for whom English is not their first language.

Language for me narrates the pictures in my mind. When I work on designing livestock equipment I can test run that equipment in my head like 3-D virtual reality. In fact, when I was in college I used to think that everybody was able to do that.

A young man who is here speaks the Panis language, and in many other respects, is preferable.

We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that he deserved to suffer what he did suffer is to do violence not merely to language but to any healthy moral sense.