Language Quotes - Page 59

If we want to be heard we must speak in a language the listener can understand and on a level at which the listener is capable of operating.

All propositions are of equal value.

Elementary propositions consist of names.

What else is the power of melody but the power of feeling? Music is the language of feeling; melody is audible feeling - feeling communicating itself.

Japanese is a baby talk - very, very hard to read, very, very, easy to talk. ... A very faint kind of language.

Since the boundary of the world of poetry is fluid, the language in it is also fluid. Hence, the language that is outside of the poetry world, namely the language that is not the language of poetry, cannot go into the poetry world.

We shall never understand one another until we reduce the language to seven words.

One should connect language learning with either work or leisure. And not at the expense of them but to supplement them.

Life doesn't exist inside language: too bad for me.

The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood.

Because Music is a language that lives in the spiritual realms, we can hear it, we can notate it and create it, but we cannot hold it in our hands

The ultimate goal is a comprehensive classification of what is very likely a single language family. The implications of such a classification for the origin and history of our species would, of course, be very great.

You who read me, are You sure of understanding my language?

The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.

Wordsmiths who serve established power...castrate the public imagination by subjecting language to a complexity which renders it private. Elitism is always their aim.

I'm flatulent in many languages.

Music is a simulation of something, but language is the greatest thing we possess.

The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.

How many languages can a child learn? As many as you will take the time to teach them.

I love working in cinema - it can be in any language!

Language is the best, best toy.

Music is so hard to talk about in many ways, It communicates beyond what our language can put across, and having to sit there and analyze it and talk about it is a struggle for me.

That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isn't a hiding place. It is a finding place.

Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise.

For me, language is a freedom. As soon as you have found the words with which to express something, you are no longer incoherent, you are no longer trapped by your own emotions, by your own experiences; you can describe them, you can tell them, you can bring them out of yourself and give them to somebody else. That is an enormously liberating experience.