Language Quotes
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A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.
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Where psychedelics comes together with that is that it's going to require a transformation of human language and understanding to stop the momentum of the historical process, to halt nuclear proliferation, germ warfare, infantile 19th century politics, all these things. It cannot be accomplished through a frontal assault upon it by political means.
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In # France we have a saying, 'Joie de Vivre,' which actually doesn't exist in the English language. It means looking at your life as something that is to be taken with great pleasure and enjoy it.
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Music is a universal language. You don't have to worry about what is being conveyed. You don't have to try to figure out what could be lost in translation. It goes directly to the pit of your soul. I think that's what music was intended to do.
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I get along with all the women singers, but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly language.
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The liberal uses the radical's language to achieve the conservative's aim: the preservation of the capitalist system, and the traditional ethnic/racial hierarchy within society.
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I've been in New York only a few days and I have learned only two words of your language: one is Swell, and the other is Lousy. ... 'It's swell to be with you and excuse, please, my lousy English!
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Reality is captured in the categorical nets of Language only at the expense of fatal distortion.
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I was actually born and raised in Puerto Rico. I moved to the States when I was 19. I was very impressed early on by being around people who spoke my language and ate the same food and listened to the same music, dressed the same. But then you look around and, you know, you're not in Puerto Rico.
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The real technology -behind all our other technologies- is language. It actually creates the world our consciousness lives in.
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Language is a spiritual mansion in which you live and nobody has the right to evict you.
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Love is the language all animals understand.
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You may buy from me in your own language, but sell to me in mine.
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There is a loving way with words and an unloving way. And it is only with the loving way that the simplicity of language becomes beautiful.
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Cut in dressmaking is like grammar in language. A good design should be like a well made sentence and it should only express one idea at a time.
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What you hear depends on how you focus your ear. We're not talking about inventing a new language, but rather inventing new perceptions of existing languages.
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I'm not somebody who is always comfortable with language that implies I've got a monopoly on the truth, or that my faith is automatically transferable to others.
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A satyagrahi is sometimes bound to use language which is capable of two meanings, provided both the meanings are obvious and necessary and there is no intention to deceive anyone.
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It's light-hearted. We've taken out all the language -- just things that would offend a Utah audience.
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It is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to do that without, at the same time, condemning the contingent, intolerable conditions that exist in our society. These conditions are the things that cause individuals to feel that they have no other alternative than to engage in violent rebellions to get attention. And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard.
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I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian.
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Language learning deserves special mention. It is, bar none, the best thing you can do to hone clear thinking.
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Every drop of human blood contains a history book written in the language of our genes.
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Music is 'significant form,' and its significance is that of a symbol, a highly articulated, sensuous object, which by virtue of its dynamic structure can express the forms of vital experience which language is peculiarly unfit to convey. Feeling, life, motion and emotion constitute its import.
