Language Quotes

I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine.

I thought that subtitles are boring because they're there generally to serve us with information to make you understand what people are saying in a different language.

We can take some gratification at having come a certain distance in just a few thousand years of our existence as language users, but it should be a deeper satisfaction, even an exhilaration, to recognize that we have such a distance still to go.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

I think it's linked to the realisation that we're not going to live forever and that the way of saying and the language become more important than the story.

The stuff that I dig, it's usually got a soulful component to it. A singer that I really like. I might not understand the language that they're singing in, but I'm really communing with this person.

Further, I'm obsessed with how language contorts and creates bodies.

Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other.

The process of filmmaking is very musical, you get into the rhythm and the rhythmics of how someone is, especially with Woody Allen who is very much into body language and body movement.

Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.

I do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not allow me to take.

I have three tools at my disposal - my whistle, my body language and my talk. It is a question of how I marry them up to try to get the players around to my way of thinking.

If you can not master your language you must be it's slave.

We Liberal Democrats believe in dialogue. We believe in cooperation with both sides of industry and between both sides of industry. And we believe in the language of cooperation. We reject the language of confrontation.

The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.

My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language.

I want a language that speaks the truth.

Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.

The heart of the matter seems to me to be the direct interaction between one's making a poem in English and a poem in the language that one understands and values. I don't see how you can do it otherwise.

In this respect I suppose I'm the total opposite of Garry. With his very emotive body language at the board he shows and displays all his emotions. I don't.

My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldn't be able to say anything.

So far as the advocates of a constructed international language are concerned, it is rather to be wondered at how much in common their proposals actually have, both in vocabulary and in general spirit of procedure.

To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions.

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.

I learned how to sign because when I was growing up in California in order to get into college you needed two semesters of language to get into a University of California school.

So women are at the beginning of building a language, and not all women are conscious of it.

Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion.

I thought it was respectful to each country to sing in their language.

For humanism also appeals to man as man. It seeks to liberate the universal qualities of human nature from the narrow limitations of blood and soil and class and to create a common language and a common culture in which men can realize their common humanity.