Language Quotes - Page 78

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

When you're around your family, and you have that history and that shared language, you say things you'd be embarrassed to hear quoted back to you later.

Language instruction should start in the first grade. Writing, also.

I felt like I had reached the end of a period of life, where the work was jumping about and pushing something new every time. I wanted to dial it back and create a language that was stable and deep.

...The plural of elf is elves! What a language! What a world!

Mêmewars is electricity in language, eccentricity at its best where 'there's a profusion of presents.' This book makes eye contact with she and with me. It reminds me how being a reader can be exciting.

Language is magic: it makes things appear and disappear.

I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhythms of the English language and the mannerisms of the English speech seems to work effortlessly with William Shakespeare, but when Americans do it, something seems stuck.

If you adopt the body language of a power player, it will greatly facilitate your ability to be a power player.

It's usually best not to ask philosophers anything, precisely because they have the habit of what in the Persian language is called sanud: the profitless consideration of unsettling yet inconsequential things.

I think somebody who speaks the language is going to notice immediately that I'm not Russian.

As you know, there are certain languages that lend themselves very easily to vocal use.

Force is the only language the imperialists can hear, and no country became free without some sort of violence.

People of a television culture need “plain language” both aurally and visually, and will even go so far as to require it in some circumstances by law. The Gettysburg Address would probably have been largely incomprehensible to a 1985 audience.

I have heard the languages of apocalypse, and now I shall embrace the silence.

[Emacs] is written in Lisp, which is the only computer language that is beautiful.

Language is the most beautiful and destructive thing because it allows you to express yourself, but it totally confuses everything.

As writers we need to crack open language.

Poststructuralism. . . . is a form of literary criticism that uses elaborate wordplay to prove its central premise, that all language is internally contradictory and has no fixed meaning.

I thought it was respectful to each country to sing in their language.

Punctuation is biological. It is the physical indication of the body-rhythms which the reader is to acknowledge.

I've always loved music and I love the language, which is a huge reason why I'm part of theater.

I've always loved rhyming. I love language.

Making a movie is universal. Directing a movie is universal; it's a universal language.

I don't know if I'm truly at home in any language.