Language Quotes - Page 57

I must say I'm not 100% fluent in Sign Language, but I am working on it!

Sometimes I talk to myself in languages I'm unfamiliar with... just to screw with my subconscious.

Nature is a language - can't you read?

In every language you can imagine I've had people say 'Appetite For Destruction' is the soundtrack to their lives. I don't think you could say something nicer to an entertainer or performer - can't get more respectful.

I was never much of a reader. I'm a slow reader, which is unusual, because I'm so into language and I love words so much. But it's hard for me to read.

We gave you a perfectly good language and you f***ed up.

Poetry is the language of a state of crisis.

Signs cannot be represented, in a spy's report, so damningly as words.

We note the increasing coarseness of language and understand how Lot must have felt when he was, according to Peter, "vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked." (2 Peter2:7.) We wonder why those of coarse and profane conversation, even if they refuse obedience to God's will, are so stunted mentally that they let their capacity to communicate grow more and more narrow. 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.

Human relations are like the irregular verbs in a number of languages where nearly all verbs are irregular.

A really good stand-up comic is a poet; it's about the use of language. It can be really poetic. And I like politically conscious comedy.

We have needed to define ourselves by reclaiming the words that define us. They have used language as weapons. When we open ourselves to what they say and how they say it, our narrow prejudices evaporate and we are nourished and armed.

Language is a spiritual mansion in which you live and nobody has the right to evict you.

Women's body language speaks eloquently, though silently, of her subordinate status in a hierarchy of gender.

Poetry is a language for when you can't quite write prose about something, you can't quite say it, but if you do a poem, it kind of gets to the point.

The United States, a land of immigrants from every corner of the world, has been strengthened and unified because its newcomers have historically chosen ultimately to forgo their native language for the English language. We have all benefited from the sharing of ideas, of cultures and beliefs, made possible by a common language. We have all enriched each other.

Love is language that cannot be said, or heard.

Love will find its way through all languages on its own.

Close the language-door, and open the love-window

In love’s country, language doesn’t have its place. Love is mute.

A poet is the translator of the silent language of nature to the world.

A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms.

I think it's harder to learn a language without having a goal.

Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification

In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible.