Language Quotes

Americans can pretty much sing anything, whereas foreign singers are often limited in style, language, even composer.

I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.

Why does there exist a global American entertainment industry, but there isn't an equivalent coming from France or Italy? This is the case simply because the English language opens the whole world to the American cinema.

A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.

I use the language I use to my friends. They wouldn't believe me if I used some high-flown literary language. I want them to believe me.

The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!

The world of science and the world of literature have much in common. Each is an international club, helping to tie mankind together across barriers of nationality, race and language. I have been doubly lucky, being accepted as a member of both.

Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.

Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.

Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.

The one overall structure in my plays is language.

Between France and Senegal there's a history. There's a language that we both speak. There's a culture that we share and to which both of our peoples have contributed. But beyond our history, beyond our language, beyond the links that have united us for so long, what unites us today is the future.

He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish.

I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc.

It is wrong to use equal language for unequal actions.

Language is much closer to film than painting is.

I think records and music are more appropriate and more respectful of the human soul than the churches are. And more respectful of the needs of humans to communicate with the aspects of themselves that are neglected by language.

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.

Harmony is an obscure and difficult musical science, but most difficult to those who are not acquainted with the Greek language; because it is necessary to use many Greek words to which there are none corresponding in Latin.

What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today when human contacts go so fast. Fashion is instant language.

I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery.

I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha.

Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering.

I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature.

We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be "revolutionary" but not transformative.

The art of communication is the language of leadership.