Language Quotes

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.

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.

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.

Once you embody the language, the character comes really naturally, especially when you put the costume on.

In order to figure out how to make atoms compute, you have to learn how to speak their language and to understand how they process information under normal circumstances.

If you're a good numbers person, you're a bad language person.

There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.

I would say colonialism is a wonderful thing. It spread civilization to Africa. Before it they had no written language, no wheel as we know it, no schools, no hospitals, not even normal clothing.

Knowing some Greek helped defuse forbidding words - not that I counted much on using them. You'll find only trace elements of this language in the poem.

I learned English, my sixth language at this point, quite quickly.

There's a melody in everything. And once you find the melody, then you connect immediately with the heart. Because sometimes English or Spanish, Swahili or any language gets in the way. But nothing penetrates the heart faster than the melody.

The limits of my language means the limits of my world.

If our language, our programs, our creations are not strongly present in the new media, the young generation of our country will be economically and culturally marginalized.

English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen.

Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.

The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-granted by the persons who used it as our language is by ourselves. Nothing strange about it.

A gloss is a total system of perception and language.