Language Quotes

Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

Music, as many people have said, is the universal language. Of course points are made which make you think about things, but ultimately it makes you feel. And that's why people remember more songs that have meant something during their life than films. They start to define periods in your life, and that's kind of the beauty of it.

The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.

All the dialogue on tape, and we'd play the tape in performance. Then I thought it'd be interesting if the actor's repeated what they heard on the tape, but at a slower speed, so we'd get a web of language.

Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language.

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.

Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising.

Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language that you're singing in, they still know good music when they hear it.

A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen.

Everybody needs to understand that I learned Arabic from the United States Army as a second language. I never spoke it at home.

That means presenting the issues in certain ways that will appeal to those people and then becoming a prisoner of your own language and thought process. That has always happened - it's just been intensified.

Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud out, spread into leaves, and become big branches, proliferating.

The market is like a language, and you have to be able to understand what they're saying.

It's always been easy with Mark, he's a rock fan and we speak the same language. He's a big Beatles fan too. We worked a lot via CLI calls, though only meeting up once every couple of months.

No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.

People who share the same language, French or Chinese or whatever, have the same vocal cords and emit sounds which are basically the same, as they come from the same throats and lungs.

In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional grammar; for instance, the study of inscriptions and their language. But not yet in the spirit of linguistics.

I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.

I get along with all the women singers, but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly language.

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.

The fundamental purpose of a novel like Count Julian is to achieve the unity of object and means of representation, the fusion of treason as scheme and treason as language.

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.

We've driven teenagers crazy in every language.

At Ungaro, I discovered the flou and the language of Paris.

Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone.

For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance.

Whenever one reads of the determination of the species, or opens a book on natural science and history, in whatever language, one inevitably comes across the name of Linne.