Language Quotes - Page 77

I like poetry because poetry - even in free verse - is formal, and it has to be very concise and packed and rich, and I like the feeling of having to do that, having to make the language tight and still free, as if the deepest freedom is created by the restrictions.

For me, language is something that I've always loved. When I read, that's what I look for. When I write, that's what I strive for.

When a language die we don't know what we lose with language.

But even in the schoolyard I'd been aware of that silence, that reserve in him, as though he'd been raised by foxes and language was his second language.

There are no simple words. I don't know why I thought I could hide anything behind language.

Sometimes you're not in the best environment. Sometimes you're not speaking the same language and it's not a good place to work. It's a lot to give, actually. And for not a lot of money.

We like to pile language on language. Hunter [ S. Thompson] was an influence on me, no doubt about it.

I arrived in the middle of a press conference - as boring a thing to sit through if you don't know the language as it is if you do.

I am Irish by race but the English have condemned me to talk the language of Shakespeare.

The Americans are identical to the British in all respects except, of course, language.

He would always speak the language of the heart with an awkward foreign accent.

You who speak languages, you are such liars.

Parallel cinema has not made an effort to communicate in a language the other person understands.

I don't feel restricted by the language: I feel more free.

Each actor requires a different language.

Language lies outside of society because it is its foundation; but it also lies within society because that is the only place where it exists and the only place where it develops.

I had to know at least two languages.

Wherever illiteracy is a problem, it's as fundamental a problem as getting enough to eat or a place to sleep.

It's true that language is in a sense linear but that is as obvious as perceptual space is three-dimensional.

Welsh is now almost a national language in Wales. The Scottish dialects are reviving to some extent. I don't think it's a major thing, but it's there, and it's happening elsewhere.

Selfish-gene theory tells us nothing about the value of interacting through language.

Of course language arose in a Darwinian biological world, because that's all there is, but that world relates only superficially to the pop-biology that circulates informally.

The structure of language determines not only thought, but reality itself.

From now on I will consider a language to be a set (finite or infinite) of sentences, each finite in length and constructed out ofa finite set of elements. All natural languages in their spoken or written form are languages in this sense.

The syntactic component of a grammar must specify, for each sentence, a deep structure that determines its semantic interpretationand a surface structure that determines its phonetic interpretation.