Language Quotes - Page 12

So mathematical truth prefers simple words since the language of truth is itself simple.

Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly all its successors.

No matter what your cultural sophistication or what language you speak, everyone can understand images.

Words may be false and full of art; Sighs are the natural language of the heart.

It's no big deal about how you get language to evolve. You cause language to evolve by saying new and intelligent things to each other.

Language casts sheaves of reality upon the social body, stamping it and violently shaping it.

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction.

The language of film is further and further away from the language of theater, and is closer to music. It’s abstract but still narrative. Everything feels less rehearsed. It’s more experimental than classical.

Language is the only homeland.

In the silence of the Cross, the uproar of weapons ceases and the language of reconciliation, forgiveness, dialogue and peace is spoken.

For me, being in prison writing in an African language was a way of saying: "Even if you put me in prison, I will keep on writing in the language which made you put me in prison."

All mystics speak the same language, for they come from the same country.

I've never said I'm immortal. I do believe in correct language. I'm eternal; I'm not immortal.

I am annoyed by individuals who are embarrassed by pauses in a conversation. To me, every conversational pause refreshes.

Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.

One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.

One of the obligations of the writer is to say or sing all that he or she can, to deal with as much of the world as becomes possible to him or her in language.

Anyone interested in language ends up writing about the sociological issues around it.

I make music to touch the souls of people as it's a language we all can speak.

The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.

We exchanged many frank words in our respective languages.

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

Music is the language of heaven.

The internet is an amazing medium for languages.