Language Quotes - Page 64

Geek it's really more a characteristic where you don't socialize. You don't talk the normal languages.

Well it is sometimes difficult to act in another language

Language, as symbol, determines much of the nature and quality of our experience.

Music is not supposed to be nationalist. It is supposed to surpass language barriers. It is about generations communicating with each other.

If you listen to a language for 15 minutes, you know the rhythm and song.

Above all, translators must be native speakers. It’s not because they speak the language better – I understand that sometimes a foreigner can learn a language better than native speakers. It has more to do with intimate knowledge of the society for which the book is being translated.

Never too late to learn a language. And the good literature to come with it.

The stars have their own language, you know. If you're careful, you can learn it.

As a prose writer, I work with language; and those who work with language turn to poetry for renewal.

A picture book is a story told in two languages - word and image. And the illustration is the front door of the book.

Why the connection with musicians? I think it's because in the end we're doing very similar things - we're telling stories, we're using poetic, lyrical language, and we're distilling stories down into their simplest form. We're both telling a story in two languages - word and music for them; and word and image for me.

Music, to me, is not math or science. It is a language.

Empathy is even better than talking in one language

Most ads are ignored because every customer has a mental filter that evaluates and dismisses both of these languages of Ad-Speak with a single question: What are they not telling me?

I gave up language for a while, and I started painting.And then I only listened to Miles Davis and other instrumental music to see how it felt to be without words.

Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech.

There is a language of love, which is to say, a truth that does not tell all and a lie that does not deceive.

English is weak in describing emotional states or intensities of interpersonal relationships.

Language is decanted and shared. If only one person is left alive speaking a language - the case with some American Indian languages - the language is dead. Language takes two and their multiples.

I love literature, the English language and storytelling. I also have thirty horses and seventy foxhounds to feed.

Mathematics is a language plus reasoning. It's like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.

Language does not leave fossils, at least not until it has become written.

It is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be in the grasp of superficially educated people.

There are many other ways in which language can be used to manipulate an audience. one obvious way is to simply lie.

You should take notes whenever you hear interesting or original language.