Language Quotes - Page 22

Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination.

Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.

I tore up and ate my own passport in an airport hotel once. I'm bloated with language I can’t afford to forget.

Speak any language, Turkish, Greek, Persian, Arabic, but always speak with love

Heart is a sea, language is the shore. Whatever is in a sea hits the shore.

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.

Skepticism cannot be revolutionary, even though it speaks the language of revolution.

Even when people can't speak your language, they can tell if you have love in your heart.

It seems clear that the Bible belongs to an area of language in which metaphor is functional, and were we have to surrender precision for flexibility.

By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.

Language transcends us and yet we speak.

The language of pornography is abusive, that of romance adoring. Both are addressed to a fetish.

There are things that music can do that language could never do, that painting could never do, or sculpture. Music is capable of going directly to the source of the mystery. It doesn't have to explain it. It can simply celebrate it.

Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.

Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop.

A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.

If you can't describe your strategy in twenty minutes, simply and in plain language, you haven't got a plan. 'But,' people may say, 'I've got a complex strategy. It can't be reduced to a page.' That's nonsense. That's not a complex strategy. It's a complex thought about the strategy.

He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.

Language designed to impress builds a gulf. Language to express builds a bridge.

My least favorite phrase in the English language is 'I don't care.'

Being British, I don't really have a way of expressing myself in conversation. Music transcends language.

Words are coin. Words alienate. Language is no medium for desire. Desire is rapture, not exchange.

Good design, at least part of the time, includes the criterion of being direct in relation to the problem at hand - not obscure, trendy, or stylish. A new language, visual or verbal, must be couched in a language that is already understood.

Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage everywhere. Everyone feels that they are represented by him on the stage.