Language Quotes
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Language, after all, is organic. You can't force words into existence. You can't force new meanings into words. And some words can't or won't or shouldn't be laundered or neutered. Language develops naturally.
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In China, I realized that if you visit often enough and learn the language, you will be assimilated, but you'll still be kept at arm's length; you'll always be looked on as a foreigner.
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The image is a great reminder how we create our world through interpretations made up of language and symbols. Our language and symbols are always incomplete versions of a greater reality. Here is why inquiry is such a powerful tool when compared to simple advocacy. Inquiry allows us to discover what might be outside the cave instead of arguing about the shadows on the wall.
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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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For the very young, there's nothing better than Mother Goose and anything by Dr. Seuss for the rhythms and language.
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When this war is over, the Japanese language will be spoken only in hell!
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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.
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There was only a language of families, a tongue woven from a lifetime of shared experiences. Its vocabulary consisted of gestures and curt sentences, incomprehensible to all outsiders. Inside, it wasn't difficult to translate at all.
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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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A young man who is here speaks the Panis language, and in many other respects, is preferable.
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Opinions of language are as interesting as opinions of arithmetic.
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Language is the source of misunderstandings.
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Power doesn't just exist. It is threaded through different mechanisms of control. I'm interested in those complexities. But I want to address that in very forthright language and sometimes with images.
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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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A tale should be judicious, clear, succinct; The language plain, and incidents well link'd; Tell not as new what ev'ry body knows; and, new or old, still hasten to a close.
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When a person has an accent, it means he can speak one more language than you.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
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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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Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.
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Photography is my only language.
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C is the assembly language of Tcl.
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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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Invent a new language anyone can understand.
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The affectation of some late authors to introduce and multiply cant words is the most ruinous corruption in any language.
