Language Quotes - Page 30

I think of language as our first music.

I don't like reading music. It's like learning a language. You can't read music proficiently overnight. It takes time, it's boring work.

The habits and language of clandestinity can intoxicate even its own practitioners.

Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature.

I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.

Scrape the surface of language, and you will behold interstellar space and the skin that encloses it.

Human language is local and changeable, and is therefore incapable of being used as the means of unchangeable and universal information.

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor.

As they say in Discworld, we are trying to unravel the Mighty Infinite using a language which was designed to tell one another where the fresh fruit was.

A gloss is a total system of perception and language.

The language of the heart is mankind's main common language.

Language is much closer to film than painting is.

The older you get, the more power you have with language as a writer, which means that you have to be extra responsible for what you say, whether it's in print or in front of a microphone, because those words can go out and kill or go out and plant seeds for peace.

The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present.

The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing.

The language of the totalist environment is characterized by the thought-terminating cliché. The most far-reaching and complex of human problems are compressed into brief, highly reductive, definitive-sounding phrases, easily memorized and easily expressed. These become the start and finish of any ideological analysis.

To me, the most obscene word in our language is celibacy.

I learned English, my sixth language at this point, quite quickly.

We need only look to our Navajo Code Talkers during World War II to see the value that Native languages bring not only to their culture, but to the security of all Americans.

Languages are jealous sovereigns, and passports are rarely allowed for travellers to cross their strictly guarded borders.

Language is capable of becoming the objective repository of vast accumulations of meaning and experience, which it can then preserve in time and transmit to following generations.

Baseball is a universal language. Catch the ball, throw the ball, hit the ball.

language is never neutral

When you know the language of love,it's easy to understand that someone in the world awaits you.