Language Quotes - Page 73

The die-hard opinions of George III couched in the language of Edmund Burke.

Music is the language of God. God's language, music, is not like mathematics or geometry. It is a language of love. If we love music, that is enough.

Samskrit language, as has been universally recognized by those competent to form a judgment, is one of the most magnificent, the most perfect, the most prominent and wonderfully sufficient literary instrument developed by the human mind.

Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages; they have learned to understand and be understood by all.

Even if I think in English, it's more a language of acting than French.

I'm not a lawyer, and maybe I should have used more specific legal language.

For me, rather than the language, the Hollywood system of making movies was a tremendous learning experience.

One thing for sure is it will be written in the Icelandic language. All of my literary work is.

I think music is what language once aspired to be. Music allows us to face God on our own terms because it reaches beyond life.

Sometimes, language is the sound of longing

No one can create a noteworthy work without knowing the tenets of their own language and literature. Language is renewed but it never changes its essence, because the contracts that have come about over time for communication cannot be rescinded so easily.

When you play music, you don't need a language. Music is a language.

Music is a universal language.

I do try to incorporate particular rhythmic and generally sonic motifs I discover in music as such, and if one thinks of language in a narrow sense, that, perhaps, suggests a possibility for a rhythmic sensibility that enters poetry from outside of language.

I believe rhythmic sensibility is always a product and extension of language, defined broadly, among other things. But it is an immediate product and extension - no time elapses between the exposure to language and the creation of rhythmic sensibility.

I've shot films in Africa. I've shot in America - English is not my language.

Simple is the language of truth.

The language of truth is unvarnished enough.

I'm always working on something new and while I'm working, I'm absorbed with my characters, their conflicts,my language and settings. I'm in another place and it is a shock to come out and consider my previous works.

What narrative journalism does is create a language or open up a space where someone can say, "Oh, this happened to me, too."

It's the same thing,' I told her. 'What is?' 'Being afraid and being alive.' 'No,' she said slowly, and now it was as if she was speaking a language she knew at first I wouldn't understand, the very words, not to mention the concept, being foreign to me. 'Macy, no. It's not.

The language of solace, and comets, and the girls we all become, in the end.

I turned to photography because I thought it was the dominant language of our culture.

My book would come out in one language, then it would come out in another language, then it would come out in One City, One Read, and I was always being called away from my desk.

That's why it's important to be multilingual, because it teaches you so much about your own language.