Language Quotes - Page 49

I love the French language... it's a delightful language, especially to curse with. It's like whopping your ass with silk.

There is a kind of nonlinguistic thought going on which we are trying to represent in language, and we know that sometimes we fail.

I used to keep a dictionary and work with it and then I realized there are more words that exist in the English language than there are in this dictionary.

Whatever Language Pakistan understands India should teach in that language

What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends.

Music is that great language where a lot can be said and little can be proven.

Put a symbol, or language of some sort, in a painting and it will be noticed by the viewer whether or not they can read that particular language.

The only philosophy is that of language, the only religion is that of the word.

Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.

A common language is the most obvious binding element in any society.

On this platform of peace, we can create a language to translate ourselves to ourselves and to each other.

It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to master a foreign language if you're not brought up with it

The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language.

When it's done with being graceful and poetic, language is meant to communicate, after all.

Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human condition. Writers are either polluters or part of the cleanup.

Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's.

The reader is the content of any poem or of the language he employs, and in order to use any of these forms, he must put them on.

I can understand German as well as the maniac that invented it, but I talk it best through an interpreter.

I would not rob you of your food or your clothes or your umbrella, but if I caught your German out I would take it. But I don't study any more,- I have given it up.

It's awful undermining to the intellect, German is; you want to take it in small doses, or first you know your brains all run together, and you feel them flapping around in your head same as so much drawn butter.

...the circumstances and the atmosphere always have so much to do in directing a conversation, especially a German conversation, which is only a kind of an insurrection, anyway.

I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes.

Language allows you to implant a thought from your mind directly into someone else's mind, and they can attempt to do the same to you, without either of you having to perform surgery.

I didn't know the language of my own wisdom. I wanted to be loved and after all the various relationships I went through, I finally realized I am love. I carry love.

In daily life language is important, if not in itself, then as a symptom.