Language Quotes

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.

We inhabit a language rather than a country.

Because Shakespeare's language is so expansive, we're under this misconception that it's difficult. But I discovered that it's easy because it's so brilliantly written. The words are perfect, and the language is intelligent and very emotional.

Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language.

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.

Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out.

If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls.

To work our way towards a shared language once again, we must first learn how to discover patterns which are deep, and capable of generating life.

In the GNOME project we tried to keep the platform language independent.

We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.

I didn't choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early age by the culture, the language, the literature and the history to the place.

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

In terms of language, yeah we get bleeped and blurred and things, but in terms of content, I would probably say we're getting away with more here than we could get away with in Britain. And that surprised us so much!

"I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence?

Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own literary language.

Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions.

Language cares.

In general, I agree with Jacob Grimm and feel that we ought to permit changes and uncontrolled growth in language. Even though that also allows potentially threatening new words to develop, language needs the chance to constantly renew itself.

It feels wonderful to be go back to the 1940s and recreate the whole era through my clothes, voice and body language. I am tired of playing the larger-than-life hero.

Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.

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.