Language Quotes
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My last book, 'The Language of Flowers,' I wrote completely on naptime, when my little kids were asleep.
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I've always seen movies in English with Spanish subtitles. For audiences around the world, the language is less important than if it's a good film.
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I invented the colors of the vowels!--A black, E white, I red, O blue, U green--I made rules for the form and movement of each consonant, and, and with instinctive rhythms, I flattered myself that I had created a poetic language accessible, some day, to all the senses.
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I've never lived in an English-speaking country, ever, but I lived in Austria. So, my second language is German. And when I went to school, I had a lot of classes in English.
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It's always a unique challenge when you're working with somebody where English is their second language.
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English is the easiest language to speak badly.
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I had two experiences with very close friends of mine who experienced aphasia, the loss of language. It shocked me.
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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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The whole world has changed, so you just stay current with the world. There's nothing different in my language of how I say things.
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Music is truly love itself, the purest, most ethereal language of the emotions, embodying all their changing colors in every variety of shading and nuance.
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Accent is the soul of language; it gives to it both feeling and truth.
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Expressing myself through language was always something that I had had to learn to do more so than others.
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I get a lot of comics, and I can look at a comic and tell immediately whether I'll enjoy it or not. There are elements in the stories that I have no rapport with. I see dirty language, I see sleazy backgrounds; I see it reflected in the movies, the movies are comics to me. And I don't see a sleazy world. I see hope. I see a positive world.
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I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.
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Language is fun; it's fun to try.
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The full meaning of a language is never translatable into another. We may speak several languages but one of them always remains the one in which we live. In order completely to assimilate a language it would be necessary to make the world which it expresses one's own and one never does belong to two worlds at once.
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As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the human language is the possibility of lying.
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No language is justly studied merely as an aid to other purposes. It will in fact better serve other purposes, philological or historical, when it is studied for love, for itself.
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Because of our kinship in suffering, our channels of contact have always been charged with the language of the heart.
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What I really like doing is storytelling, finding the body language that is necessary for the story. And when I'm doing it and it's working, I'm thrilled.
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I do that in whatever language of the country I'm in, because the audience appreciate it.
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The questioner has to come to an end. It is the questioner that creates the answer; and the questioner comes into being from the answer, otherwise there is no questioner.
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I'm not a lawyer, and maybe I should have used more specific legal language.
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I was taken by William Burroughs’ presence and intelligence from the first time I was introduced to him, by Lester Bangs in 1975. He was thrilling to listen to. When you heard him speak, you felt that you were privy to such a rare mind. Even in small-talk, he spoke with perfect economy of language. His shoots with me were very collaborative and it was an incredible opportunity to be able to photograph him over the course of twenty years.
