Language Quotes
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I love poetry. It's at the heart of everything I do. Poetry transforms what we call language, and uses language as the stuff to become something else. I get spun around by what happens in words. When that occurs, it inspires images that seem so original to me as an artist, even though I'm following what the poem has offered.
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It is in the ordinary events of every day that we develop the proactive capacity to handle the extraordinary pressures of life. It's how we make and keep commitments, how we handle a traffic jam, how we respond to an irate customer or a disobedient child. It's how we view our problems and where we focus our energies. It's the language we use.
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Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.
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Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.
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Memewars is electricity in language, eccentricity at its best where 'there's a profusion of presents.' This book makes eye contact with she and with me. It reminds me how being a reader can be exciting.
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Ask, 'How are we different from the great apes?' We have culture, we have civilisation, and we have language to be celebrated as part of being human.
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Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing.
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I was born in Brooklyn and raised in Pittsburgh. I've never been to Iran, I don't speak the language, and, probably most important of all, my Iranian father left home when I was nine months old. That's the extent of my connection to Iran.
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Accent is the soul of language; it gives to it both feeling and truth.
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Astrology is a language. If you understand this language, the sky speaks to you.
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I learned Spanish at home and, since half my family doesn't speak English, it's my first language.
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The mastery of one's phonemes may be compared to the violinist's mastery of fingering. The violin string lends itself to a continuous gradation of tones, but the musician learns the discrete intervals at which to stop the string in order to play the conventional notes. We sound our phonemes like poor violinists, approximating each time to a fancied norm, and we receive our neighbor's renderings indulgently, mentally rectifying the more glaring inaccuracies.
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When a person has an accent, it means he can speak one more language than you.
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They can’t even think of freedom because they don’t have the language to.
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In Italy, it is difficult to see a film in the original language because the voice actors here are a mafia.
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For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language.
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To me, a drop of oil paint or a xerographic dot are the same thing – they're all just language.
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I've always felt, even as a songwriter, that the rhythm of speech is in itself a language for me.
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All living languages are promiscuous. We promiscuous speakers shamelessly shoplift words, plucking bons mots and phrases from any tempting language. We wear these words when we wish to be more formal, more elegant, more mysterious, worldly, precise, vague.
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Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.
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I believe a good memoir should have all of the narrative elements of a novel: character development, dialogue, descriptive language, and metaphor.
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China's cinema has been rising for some time; it has more exposure, so my chances of becoming internationally known are better. But the first thing I have to do is learn English. If I can grasp the language, then perhaps I can think about the U.S.
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The English language is more complex than calculus because numbers don't have nuances.
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His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.
