Language Quotes - Page 89

…only a poet could frame a language that could frame a world.

When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies.

Languages are the keys of science.

The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand We are the servants of an unknown force that lives within us, manipulates us, and dictates this language to us.

Literacy, written language is a very late acquisition in terms of human evolution.

The most important tool you have on a resume is language.

I'm telling you, I could teach at a university, [George] Carlin, a whole semester. The construction and deconstruction of the words, the language, the order.

We all laugh and cough with the same language and will die with the same language as well!

A cliche is like a coin that has been handled too much. Once language has been overly handled, it no longer leaves a clear imprint.

Poems' deep work is a matter of language, but also a matter of life. One part of that work is to draw into our awareness and into language itself the unobvious and the unexpected.

We have language and they do not. Chimps communicate by embracing, patting, looking - all these things. And they have lots of sounds. But they cannot sit and discuss. They cannot teach about things that are not present, as far as we know.

Oh, God, if I were sure I were to die tonight I would repent at once. It is the commonest prayer in all languages.

If the Irish programme did not insist on the Irish language I suppose I could call myself a nationalist. As it is, I am content torecognize myself an exile: and, prophetically, a repudiated one.

Thinking about language, while thinking _in_ language, leads to puzzles and paradoxes.

Some changes of language are to be regretted, as they lead to false inferences, and society is always a loser by mistaking names for things.

It makes sense to me that the polyglot wouldn't know what language he dreamed in.

You know, I think music is very interactive. It's a - it's a language.

As a poet who has the tools for interpreting the poem differently, you can begin to deconstruct it. But the human being who's like, "I know about conversation, I know about language, I know about hard times," will approach the poem differently.

Language usage always has a political context.

Fortunately, at the end of every season, we close the chapter and start anew. That's the language of the series now, so it can organically come to a conclusion that we love.

People remember Longfellow wrote Hiawatha, quite forget he was a Professor of Modern Languages!

Now and again he spoke to those that served him and thanked them in their own language. They smiled at him and said laughing: 'Here is a jewel among hobbits!

You don't do things for shock value anymore, because that's not even the language of today. At least, that's not what interests me. If I do it, it's because I want to see things in another way, not necessarily because I want to shock anybody.

I love theater. I also love radio. I love language.

I think it'd be pretty cool to fly. Actually, I'd like to be Language Gal. My super power is that I can speak every language.