Language Quotes

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!

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.

My mom and my dad wanted my brother and I to have a better life, you know, better education, better jobs. It was probably harder, much, much harder, for my parents. When you're a kid, you can learn a language much more easily; I learned English in less than a year.

The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational. That's just a part of the language of jazz - at a certain point.

What appeals to me? There are things, points of view, uses of the language, habits of dress, ways of thought and believing that came to me from my grandparents and came to them from theirs. Things that are of good use in any situation, no matter what the future may hold.

The Internet is not just one thing, it's a collection of things - of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language.

It was real Cheyenne. I would get the translations the night before, but it was very difficult because it was not like any other language you would be familiar with.

A common creation demands a common sacrifice, and perhaps not the least potent argument in favour of a constructed international language is the fact that it is equally foreign, or apparently so, to the traditions of all nationalities.

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.

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.

Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.

There's no doubt in my mind that 'Slam' is going to be huge. It's a film about the power of language. People are going to see this and get blown away.