Language Quotes - Page 88

Whenever a man undergoes a considerable change, in consequence of being observed by others, whenever he assumes another gait, another language, than what he had before he thought himself observed, be advised to guard yourself against him.

I've always had a fondness for language... English. Not that I use it correctly but I like words. I like books and I like poetry.. I like the written word... and the sung word.

The idea of morphology of languages is something that I'm really interested in. How does German turn to Dutch, and how does Dutch turn to Anglo-Saxon and eventually English? Morphology is actually taking place through things like Twitter or GChat today, where we're changing how things are spelled, and those spellings are accepted as standard now. Morphology happens over time. It's not necessarily a bad thing.

Architectural drawing is a language with conventions where the rules can be deliberately misused; a well-composed architectural drawing can both contain correct and incorrect arrangements of meaningful things.

Faith is the physical description of God. That's what He is. It's the only word we have in our language to accurately describe His physical form.

I love John Ashbery. He's the - really the poet laureate of English language poetry, whether he's given that or not, he is to me.

For me music is totally freeing, and it's its' own language too. You follow it, in a way.

I don't use those terms [like Uncle Tom], and I would never speak in that kind of language.

I often use official documents or bureaucratic forms within my work. I find their structure and language style leaves a lot of room for poetry and my own interpretation.

The market is like a language, and you have to be able to understand what they're saying.

There are a lot of colloquialisms in the Cantonese language that can never be represented aptly in Mandarin.

Latin is already a dead language, man... don't make it any deader.

That's part of that thing of transcending languages. Every person will have their own language.

I got really interested in the language used in blogs written by young girls - a young person's aggression, which is always lacking from the visual world.

Interpreting at its core is taking in one language and putting out the other.

My career did start in the Spanish language industry, and that's probably because my father is my manager. He pushed my career in the direction he knew best.

There may be no more-radioactive term in the English language than what we now almost always refer to as the 'n-word' - itself a coy means of linguistic sidestepping that is a sign of how perilous it is to utter the thing in full, even in conversations about language.

Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling.

I'm the final clause in a periodic sentence, and that sentence begins a long time ago, in another language, and you to read it from the beginning to get to the end, which is my arrival.

The Opera reminds me of my tax audit. It was in a language I didn’t understand. And it ended in tragedy.

I have said that Mr. Trump's language is divisive.

Second-generation Hispanics marry non-Hispanics at a higher rate than second-generation Irish or Italians. Second-generation Hispanics' English language capability rates are higher than previous immigrant groups'.

Are you having performance issues?” I asked in surprise. “Bite your tongue,” Vlad said, with a snort. “I was seeing if Dermot understood sign language, but from the look on his face, it seems not.

There were words for what he meant to me, but if I studied every language ever spoken for the next thousand years, I still wouldn’t find enough of them to describe it.

Language is what stops the heart exploding.