Language Quotes - Page 47

Every time you enter into a job it's a whole new universe. There's a new language with a new power structure. If you are in an all Black cast its a different dynamic, the same with an all male cast or a crew that is mainly women.

People in general would rather die than forgive. It's THAT hard. If God said in plain language. "I'm giving you a choice, forgive or die," a lot of people would go ahead and order their coffin.

Not literature alone, but society itself is wormed and rotten when language ceases to be respected not merely by advertisers and politicians, but by persons of learning and authority.

Language is like music; we rejoice in beauty, range, and quality in both, and we are demeaned by the repetition of a few sour notes.

Dialogue is a lean language in which every word counts.

I wanted to create an album that spoke all the musical languages I loved.

Men's language is as their lives.

Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure The bastion of sensation. Do not waver Into language. Do not waver in it.

I paint with a language I can call my own... it takes a ruthless honesty with oneself. If one admires or is influenced by anyone else, one is not being true to oneself.

I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine.

That was the hard thing about grief, and the grieving. They spoke another language, and the words we knew always fell short of what we wanted them to say.

An Englishman is content to say nothing when he has nothing to say.

Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.

And at the end of the day, there was an attempt to suppress a book. The book wasn't suppressed. It's freely available in whatever it is, close to 50 languages. There was an attempt to suppress the writer. And I'm happy to say the writer wasn't suppressed.

if there's one thing consistent about language it is that it is constantly changing. The only languages that do not change are those whose speakers are dead.

Tout refus du langage est une mort. Any refusal of language is a death.

Le langage est une peau: je frotte mon langage contre l'autre. Language is a skin; I rub my language against another language.

A man reacheth not to excellence with one language.

Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence.

Poetic language is singularly appropriate for recounting the life of the king who is traditionally accepted as the author of the poetic psalms, some of which are included in the narrative.

English is capable of defining sentiments that the human nervous system is quite incapable of experiencing.

Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved.

If we could talk to the animals, learn their languages, maybe take an animal degree.

Do you realize how angry you sound?” must be one of the most infuriating questions in the language.

Women are the simple, and poets the superior, artisans of language... the intervention of grammarians is almost always bad.