Language Quotes - Page 62

I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely blest -- blest beyond what language can express; because I am my husband's life as fully as he is mine.

It's kind of pathetic actually that we are all sitting here talking about Forth. It is not the wave of the future. It's never been the wave of the future. It's not within our power to make it the wave of the future.

Music is the most spiritual language for the human being.

Every language reflects the prejudices of the society in which it evolved.

The Bible doesn't speak of "women's rights" in the social-political language we're used to hearing today. Still, that doesn't mean the Bible is silent on the subject.

Before we got engaged, he never farted. Now it's a second language.

Poetry takes you into the recesses of the language, the neglected corners, cracks and crannies and to the big sky of wonder. It opens the door to a critique without which you have rather boring analytical tools by comparison. To cultivate poetry means to stay with it. Not to abandon hope, but to abide.

I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English.

The most meaningless term in the English language is "I take full responsibility." When a politician utters those words it means absolutely nothing.

No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language.

Donald Trump came along and spoke in a language that speaks directly to a portion of the Republican base with what they want to hear. I don`t think that he actually has a very significant ideology.

We are facing an external attack against us, which is more dangerous than any other previous wars... We are dealing with those who are extremists, who only know the language of killing and criminality.

I've always been very tied to language.

For those of us who write, it is necessary to scrutinize not only the truth of what we speak, but the truth of that language by which we speak it.

Style, is like a frog: you can dissect the thing, but it somehow dies in the process.

One must not be shy where language is concerned.

I like to play with someone who can cover a lot of ground and someone with whom you can discuss the language at a reasonable level; otherwise it gets a bit frustrating.

Art speaks its own language-soul to soul, heart to heart.

The language in New Mexico is very different. At first when you hear the speech here, you don't really know what to do with it, but then I just went with it, because as a writer as well as a translator I do believe that translated words are not different names for the same thing. They're different names for different things. I tried to stay as true as I could, so I used Ruben Cobos' dictionary of Southwestern Spanish, and when I went into Spanish I never assumed the word I would use would be the word a nuevomexicano would use.

Dictionary: a malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic

The best translators slip into the glove of a text and then turn it inside out into another language, and the whole thing comes out looking like a brand-new glove again. I'm completely in awe of this skill, since I happen to be both bilingual and a writer, but nevertheless a lousy translator.

Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.

Even so, sometimes I wish I did have a little bit more flair in my language.

As we read a text in our own language, the text itself becomes a barrier.

It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.