Language Quotes - Page 91

That's a true actor's nightmare: "Improvise in British sign language. Go."

The plain people, hereafter as in the past, will continue to make their own language, and the best that grammarians can do is to follow after it, haltingly, and not often with much insight into it.

Each language gives you something different so that's a good enough reason for you to learn it.

Because it's my first language, all the literature that I've read and all the things that I've been inspired by that have been written in Welsh have moved me beyond anything that I've experienced in any other language.

Music is enough of an expression that it doesn't really matter what the words are or what language it's in.

The Wars is a great book, rich in its images, its language, its construction, and, ultimately, its conception.

Something of the previous state, however, survives every change. This is called in the language of cybernetics (which took it form the language of machines) feedback, the advantages of learning from experience and of having developed reflexes.

I've always had an ear for languages and music so it's something I'm continually working on but it's fun.

I don't have any phobias with any language, and I've grown up listening to Anglo-American rock n roll as well as Welsh-language punk rock and I'm all for sharing languages.

Maybe because English is my second language, maybe I just translate mundane clichés from the Welsh language and they sound original in English. I am going through a bit of an obsession with bad puns. I am hoping I'll grow out of it. Maybe it's just a phase.

I'm not going to play someone too far from who I am. Although I did a movie where I played a killer, and that has yet to come out. But that's someone I love being able to shock people with. I could do something you would not expect me to do. My limitations are - I'm not Meryl Streep. I'm not playing anything in a foreign language, or anything too far from who I am.

Playing characters that speak a very violent language was my livelihood.

I'd defend the right for any novelist to experiment with form or language, but if people don't take to it, don't react by making out that they are thick.

Willem de Kooning paintings are a language to be learned. When they were first shown, they were ridiculed as being just drips and splatters and splashes. You had to learn how to read them.

Music is the language of the heart, and conservatives always screw it up.

Any friendship or relationship is about a language.

Even before I started photography, I began to see that there was a disjunction between available languages and reality.

At Ungaro, I discovered the flou and the language of Paris.

If you are a thinker, you will change the language. You will not use words the way others do.

The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened.

It's a kind of liberation to break free in language, if you can break free, but it's also a confinement, because form confines you - whatever the form.

The English language is not always the President's friend.

If, in the Judaic perception, the language of the Adamic was that of love, the grammars of fallen man are those of the legal code.

... the progress of the language has caused us to lose many old treasures. It is thus with all progress, and one must make the best of it.

Has it ever occurred to you,' he said, 'that the whole history of English poetry has been de-termined by the fact that the English language lacks rhymes?