Language Quotes - Page 81

The English language is full of words that are just waiting to be misspelled, and the world is full of sticklers, ready to pounce.

However great one's gift of language may be, there is always something that one cannot tell.

Indulge me, John. Cynicism and foul language are the only vices I'm presently capable of. Everything else takes energy or money.

And of course the word love has many shades of meaning, as do many, many of the words in our living, breathing language

I speak to you in one tongue/ but every moment that ever mattered to me/ occurred in another language.

If you cannot live without justification, you cannot live; period. And the path towards it is the path of language.

Aaron Sorkin very sticky about using precise language. It's in his contract: you have to use what he writes!

I'm always somehow drawn to that sense of how fragile things are and how a garden means so differently depending upon whose language you happen to be in or whose century you happen to be in.

Language is as fragile as the little alpine plant.

Typography tended to alter language from a means of perception and exploration to a portable commodity.

I feel that I speak the musical language.

There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry.

...In another time, What cannot be seen will define us, and we shall be prompted To say that language is error, and all things are wronged By representation. The self, we shall say, can never be Seen with a disguise, and never be seen without one.

Poetry is ... the physical enactment of a process of knowing by means of language.

The language in a comic book or a graphic novel and the cinematographic language are really not the same language. They are false brother and sister. It's not at all the same.

I'm pretty good with languages.

The language of the novel differs from the just-the-facts language of the old tales. It's robust and earthy, sometimes even baroque.

Silence is the language of inertia.

There's vulnerability - so I have to make sure the audience is certain that I know what I'm doing. There's vulnerability there because my heart is open, but at the same time I definitely have a lot of "weapons" at my disposal. I have all the language, I have all of the moment - I have all of that to spar with somebody, to take anything on.

Eating is our earliest metaphor, preceding our consciousness of gender difference, race, nationality, and language. We eat before we talk.

A language is everything you do.

poetry is where the language is renewed.

Beautiful books are always written in a sort of foreign language.

Documentary has been a way for me to establish myself as a filmmaker. It's my way of proving that I have a language, that I can say something through film.

Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.