Language Quotes - Page 95

Ah, but you see, I didn't want to be fair.

In the Trump language, words change their meaning day by day depending on his own political needs.

And let me tell you 'Kingdom of God' language is really big in the emerging church.

Unfortunately, we're using the same language to talk about the language we'retalking about.

I had always suspected language was quite limited in its ability to communicate the intricate mysteries of truth.

It is part of the business of marketing to muddy the distinction between altruism and cynicism.

Language is butchered by the media

I'm trying to steal from everybody. So yeah, there's cats that I'm personally affiliated with - Carl Franklin, Paul Thomas Anderson - and others that I don't know personally but their work I'm a big admirer of, like Martin Scorsese. But I'm hoping to come up with a language that is mine, that's specific to my take on this material.

The radio was my big influence. Comedy came from the instinctual feel I had for language.

Being a pianist allows me to play in any language.

I usually just speak in English when I'm on the basketball court. For some reason, my mind never even tried to cross any other language when I'm playing basketball.

I was also in love with the English language.

Sometimes the archaism of the language when it's spoken is why we are all in love with the Irish today.

Africa. There are a gazillion different languages people speak there, different bone structures, so vast and different.

A language Older Than Words

Programming languages are like girlfriends: The new one is better because *you* are better.

Good music is very close to primitive language.

I think the most annoying language is a tie between all the ones I don't know how to speak.

Through words to the meaning of thoughts with no words.

Eighty percent of language lies to us.

My subconscious speaks in a foreign language.

If (early humans) weren't using and refining language I would like to know what they were doing with their autocatalytically increasing brains.

I'm interested is the oblique as a concept deeply connected to human lived experience, not separate from it. I was listening to an interview with film director Stephen Frears on NPR the other day and he said, "People's lives are never what you think they are," or something like that. Human lives are oblique. It makes sense to me that attending to them in language is as well.

My version of relativism is pluralistic and attributes functions to morality that in combination with human nature place limits on what could count as a true morality. Unlike many other relativists, I do not hold that people are subject to a morality because they all belong to a certain group. That is, I don't hold that being a member of a group makes one's subject to some set of generally accepted norms. What is true is that others around us teach us morality and moral language, so they inevitably influence us.

Mathematics to me is like a language I don’t speak though I admire its literature in translation.