Language Quotes - Page 60

The German language is the organ among the languages.

english doesn't borrow from other languages. english follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.

I don't have children. I serve the world and I serve God by living as deep within my work as I can, reveling in the language of other times and putting it forth for the world.

Poetry is the memory of language

Because I cannot write my native language and have no native home anymore, and am amazed by that horrible homelessness of all French-Canadian s abroad in America.

I love variety. I love theater. I also love radio. I love language. But, the older you get, you need to earn money. You need to heighten your profile.

Our exclusive dependence on rational thought and language has obscured our natural ability to sense the flow of energy.

Music truly is the universal language.

A garden is not a picture, but a language.

A critic is a person who rationalizes his likes and dislikes in such impressive language that the layman thinks he is reasoning instead of rationalizing.

What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!

I have always maintained that translation is essentially the closest reading one can possibly give a text. The translator cannot ignore "lesser" words, but must consider every jot and tittle.

A translator is essentially a reader and we all read differently, except that a translator's reading remains in unchanging print

Sometimes before people know what they're saying, they already love the language.

For prayer is the language of the heart.

Anacalypsis: An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil of the Saitic or an Inquiry into the Origin of Languages, Nations and Religions.

Language is a living thing

The way I see it is, I am a boon to the English language.

The writer, in order to proceed, is theoretically trying to predict where his complex skein of language and image has left his reader, who he has likely never met and who is actually thousands of readers.

What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.

To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.

Much of the misbehavior of children is motivated by the cravings of an empty LOVE TANK.

One can understand nature only when one has learned the language and the signs in which it speaks to us; but this language is mathematics and these signs are methematical figures.

It's difficult to act in a language that's not your own. It takes a long time to put your head around it and feel confident with it.

Systems of morals are only a sign-language of the emotions.