Language Quotes

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.

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.

Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.

The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.

Well it is sometimes difficult to act in another language.

Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.

Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.

I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965.

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

I was also in love with the English language.

The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.

When I left Barcelona, staying in Spain was an important factor in my decision to join Madrid. I did not have to change country or learn a new language, adopt a different sort of lifestyle, and so on.

We wanted the language to feel fresh, fun, and rock solid.