Language Quotes

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.

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 world of science and the world of literature have much in common. Each is an international club, helping to tie mankind together across barriers of nationality, race and language. I have been doubly lucky, being accepted as a member of both.

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.

I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England.

The attitude of independence toward a constructed language which all national speakers must adopt is really a great advantage, because it tends to make man see himself as the master of language instead of its obedient servant.

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.

Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.

I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath.

I just don't like big guys who speak cryptically and act like they understand the language better than me.

If the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless.