Language Quotes - Page 96

There's one thing that shows up on all of the lists of what makes us human: language. Our ability to share our thoughts and complex information with others far surpasses all the barks, squeaks and growls of our animal friends.

You start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few good jokes.

I owe my own fluency with language to Brooklyn. Everyone talked about everything, from the Dodgers to the revolution.

Once, Turner had himself lashed to the mast of a ship for several hours, during a furious storm, so that he could later paint the storm. Obviously, it was not the storm itself that Turner intended to paint. What he intended to paint was a representation of the storm. One's language is frequently imprecise in that manner, I have discovered.

The problem with the British film industry is that it's really the American film industry, or a small branch of in lots of ways because of the common language. But it's great to see some individual voices still there. I think I probably gravitate towards a slightly more European, auteur model rather than the studio thing. I think it would be great if British films were a little bit more auteur driven.

I'm swimming in your cadences that you permeate my very language.

It's nonsense to say that it's not in the bill. The reality is that the bill they will have passed to the Senate will have this language in it.

When experience flies into realms that language cannot touch, honesty demands beyond-language.

There is the English language and then there's the Trump language.

The truth of no truths becomes, inevitably, truth: a way of naming being, language, and culture that guards the boundaries of thought against claims it has not validated.

You pay your money, you take your choice. I get the audience my language attracts and I lose the ones it repels.

The language you are about to hear... is disturbing.

The careful choice of words, the scrubbing of language, the calculated images we presented to the external audiences - those were all major parts of my daily life over there. So, some of that is going to seep over into what I showed in the novel and - more importantly - how I showed it.

I love language, words, and all the lovely, exciting, and heart wrenching things you can do with them. Pick the right ones, put them in the right order, and you’ve created a moment in time where the reader forgets about the late car payment, the dirty dishes, the impending workweek. You have created a state of bliss. Or negligence, depending on your perspective.

The whole visual language of the movie is developed way before we get to set. Especially when you're doing visual effects and you don't have a lot of money to mess around, which we didn't, you have to really preplan everything. Pretty much every shot in the film was figured out months before we got to set.

We have evolved to understand that language of power that's taken too much.

I think music is another language.

I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.

When I started writing seriously in high school, English was the language I had at my disposal - my Spanish was domestic, colloquial, and not particularly literary or sophisticated.

When you speak a new language you must see if you can translate all of the poetry of your old language into the new one.

Precision about language can be really, really annoying. It can make you miss the point of what the other person is saying altogether.

This is every writer's nightmare - the sudden breakdown of meaning in the language that sustains and supports us.

Poetry was syllable and rhythm. Poetry was the measurement of breath. Poetry was time make audible. Poetry evoked the present moment; poetry was the antidote to history. Poetry was language free from habit.

C++ tries to guard against Murphy, not Machiavelli.

We think of history as another specialization, like philosophy of language, rather than as something that informs everything we do and think.