Language Quotes - Page 90

I'm Language Gal. I can speak any language presented to me. And I look exactly like Halle Berry.

Just as surely as every new language mastered opens up a new world, so knowledge of a Beethoven, a Chopin, or a Schumann opens up a new world in spiritual beauty and thought.

I've never had the impulse for someone else to translate me into my own language. My impulse has always been to translate someone else into mine.

I think the one thing humans are is language wizards.

Humans are language machines, computers are language machines.

Mine. The language of love is like that, possessive. That should be the first warning that it's not going to encourage anyone's betterment.

I hope America does not accept the kind of language that Donald Trump is using to describe our fellow Americans.

Many a poem is marred by a superfluous verse.

A text conversation is a short exchange of often grossly truncated language that corresponds to a thought made all the more shallow by the process.

There has never been a time when there has been no person in Cornwall without a knowledge of the Cornish language.

We need a new political language with broader narratives. Such a language has to unravel the pervasive ideological, pedagogical, and economic dynamics of a form of economic Darwinism that now governs much of the world. This system must be demystified, politicized, and recognized for the ways in which it has come to pose a dire threat to democracy.

That generation really has to fight for a new political language, social movements, and alliances with students from other countries. They have to convince labor, parents, and the general public that the fight over higher education is a fight that benefits everyone in a sustainable democracy and not just faculty and students.

It is worth the expense of youthful days and costly hours, if you learn only some words of an ancient language, which are raised out of the trivialness of the street, to be perpetual suggestions and provocations. It is not in vain that the farmer remembers and repeats the few Latin words which he has heard.

It would seem as if the very language of our parlors would lose all its nerve and degenerate into palaver wholly, our lives pass at such remoteness from its symbols, and its metaphors and tropes are necessarily so far fetched.

How shall we account for our pursuits, if they are original? We get the language with which to describe our various lives out of acommon mint.

The dinner even is only the parable of a dinner, commonly.

The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art.

I was always influenced by language.

It is my huge pleasure that my novels are translated into languages that are read among small numbers of people.

If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.

I have a good ear for languages.

When someone's an actor and you're an actor, you meet them and you feel like you know them. We're in the same business, and we all speak the same comedy language.

We have to come back to something like ordinary language after all when we want to talk "about" mathematics!

The abuse of terms has at all times been an evil.

Plurality of languages: [...] It is crucial 1. that there are many languages and that they differ not only in vocabulary, but also in grammar, and so in mode of thought and 2. that all languages are learnable.