Language Quotes - Page 42

An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.

When you catch an adjective, kill it.

Colour is, on the evidence of language alone, very bound up with the feelings.

Americans can pretty much sing anything, whereas foreign singers are often limited in style, language, even composer.

Let us learn from the English rulers the simple fact that the oppressors are blind to the enormity of their own misdeeds.

They can’t even think of freedom because they don’t have the language to.

A picture whose pictorial form is logical form is called a logical picture.

It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought.

And to imagine a language means to imagine a form of life.

The usual terminology of political language is stupid. What is 'left' and what is 'right'? Why should Hitler be 'right' and Stalin, his temporary friend, be 'left'? Who is 'reactionary' and who is 'progressive'? Reaction against an unwise policy is not to be condemned. And progress towards chaos is not to be commended.

Once you embody the language, the character comes really naturally, especially when you put the costume on.

Seek always for the best words and the happiest expression you can find.

The gift of language is the single human trait that marks us all genetically, setting us apart from the rest of life.

Poetry is the art of using language to transcend language.

Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective.

I will never stop working on Spanish-language projects because that's my language, and because I'm a Latina and Mexican before anything else.

Language is the only chimera whose illusory power is endless, the inexhaustibility which keeps life from being impoverished. Let men learn to serve language.

I do swear a lot, but the advantage is that having played abroad, I can choose a different language from the referee's.

Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work.

A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.

Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language.

Language is the light of the mind

I will not allow my daughters to learn foreign languages because one tongue is sufficient for a woman.

The language of translation ought never to attract attention to itself.

Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.