Language Quotes
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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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The English language is more complex than calculus because numbers don't have nuances.
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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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For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language.
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Intrinsic to the concept of a translator's fidelity to the effect and impact of the original is making the second version of the work as close to the first writer's intention as possible. A good translator's devotion to that goal is unwavering. But what never should be forgotten or overlooked is the obvious fact that what we read in a translation is the translator's writing. The inspiration is the original work, certainly, and thoughtful literary translators approach that work with great deference and respect, but the execution of the book in another language is the task of the translator, and that work should be judged and evaluated on its own terms. Still, most reviewers do not acknowledge the fact of translation except in the most perfunctory way, and a significant majority seem incapable of shedding light on the value of the translation or on how it reflects or illuminates the original.
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They can’t even think of freedom because they don’t have the language to.
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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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Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs, fascinating religions, and more.
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The new, old, and constantly changing language of politics is a lexicon of conflict and drama?ridicule and reproach?pleading and persuasion.
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It’s like a language. You learn the alphabet, which are the scales. You learn sentences, which are the chords. And then you talk extemporaneously with the horn. It’s a wonderful thing to speak extemporaneously, which is something I’ve never gotten the hang of. But musically I love to talk just off the top of my head. And that’s what jazz music is all about.
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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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Language is fun; it's fun to try.
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I don't read for plot, a story 'about' this or that. There must be some kind of philosophical depth rendered into the language, something happening.
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English is the easiest language to speak badly.
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Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.
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French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy.
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The Culture of Do and Tell The main inhibitor of Humble Inquiry is the culture in which we grew up. Culture can be thought of as manifesting itself on many levels—it is represented by all of its artifacts, by which I mean buildings, art works, products, language, and everything that we see and feel when we enter another culture.
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All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.
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The soul inside me is the last foreign language I'm learning.
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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 thought it was very odd that I had a cross and that I was sticking it in a box saying terrible language. But I have to say that I did not understand.
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Silence is ever speaking; it is the perennial flow of language.
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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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When this war is over, the Japanese language will be spoken only in hell!
