Language Quotes - Page 9

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.

Poetry is either language lit up by life or life lit up by language

Words are like planets, each with its own gravitational pull.

Not only are animals unable to avail themselves of language to assert their own rights, but many fewer humans have a clear sense of kinship with animals than have a clear sense of kinship with other humans. Among beings with subjective states of awareness, animals are the untouchable caste, those whom human others would rather not acknowledge, let alone render assistance.

In plain proletarian worker's language, it takes two to tango.

The top 10 verbs in the English language are all irregular, even though irregular verbs make up only 3 per cent of the language.

From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us.

French is a language that makes those who speak it both calm and dynamic.

We always translate the other person's language into our own language.

Armenian is the language to speak with God.

Malcolm X found the language that communicated across the board, from college professor to floor sweeper, all at the same time, without demeaning the intellect of either.

Humor is a universal language.

A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do

Prayers have no boundaries. They can leap miles and continents and be translated instantly into any language.

Anguish is the universal language.

A thug only understands you when you speak his language

To talk about paintings is not only difficult but perhaps pointless too. You can only express in words what words are capable of expressing-- what language can communicate. Painting has nothing to do with that.

You can be obsessed by remorse all your life, not because you chose the wrong thing- you can always repent, atone : but because you never had the chance to prove to yourself that you would have chosen the right thing.

Notes and chords have become my second language and, more often than not, that vocabulary expresses what I feel when language fails me.

Grasp the subject, the words will follow.

Language is a very difficult thing to put into words.

It's rare that I ever meet a musician who doesn't agree that music is a language. But it's very rare to meet a musician that really treats it like one.

Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language.

Absolutely nothing is so important for a nation's culture as its language.

Language is not neutral. It is not merely a vehicle which carries ideas. It is itself a shaper of ideas.