Language Quotes - Page 40

The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak.

If anything, I see myself as a witness. I'd also be pleased, if you'd call me an interpreter. I try to hear and see the message of a place and pass it on, into that other language, the universal one of images.

Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue.

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.

The American idiom has much to offer us that the English language has never heard of

Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels.

Art is one of the dirtiest words in our language; it's mucked up with all kinds of meanings. There's the art of plumbing; there's the art of almost anything that you can say.

I come from a place where you don't need to talk all the time. There are sign languages you learn.

It is the task of the translator to release in his own language that pure language that is under the spell of another, to liberate the language imprisoned in a work in his re-creation of that work.

Continuity is one of the things I like about New England.

The vitality of language lies in its ability to limn the actual, imagined and possible lives of its speakers, readers, writers.

The language of science—and especially of a science of man—is, necessarily, anti-individualistic, and hence a threat to human freedom and dignity.

Everyone, he went on, speaks a language he does not understand, but which now and then is understood by others. That is enough to permit one to exist and at least to be misunderstood.

If the world is made of language, then you can hack it in the sense that you can hack code.

Language is something that springs from the biological matrix, and the neurological matrix, within us.

Language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing but a compromise - that which is common to you, me, and everybody.

Language is memory and metaphor.

If we are transparent, with nothing to hide, the gap between language and being disappears. Then the Muse can speak.

Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish writers who write in German.

Language conveys a certain power. It is one of the instruments of domination. It is carefully guarded by the superior people because it is one of the means through which they conserve their supremacy.

I am telling you to be a slow-speaking person.

Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written, we learn the language.

Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of language.

Extending the language of film sometimes starts with just trying to show one true thing.

I think yes is the most beautiful and necessary word in the English language.