Language Quotes
Language is too complex for a computer to understand. It's not going to be able to make sense of what people are saying en masse. We need a new type of discipline that puts together computer scientists and social scientists, who can add context to the situation.
Noreena Hertz
I listened to a lot of tapes of British theatre actresses and tried to learn from them. As Americans, we don't have such a gift with language.
Angelina Jolie
Real thinking is possible only in the light of genuine language, no matter how limited, how primitive.
Susanne Langer
Like a diaphanous nightgown, language both hides and reveals.
Karen Elizabeth Gordon
We must stop using the language of force and return to the path of civilized diplomatic and political settlement.
Vladimir Putin
I think, if allowed, 3D is a new film language. I can have more adventure exploring a new media, that's very exciting. 2D we know most of it, things haven't changed for decades; it's the same principles, so 3D's more exciting.
Ang Lee
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.
Susanne Langer
A text conversation is a short exchange of often grossly truncated language that corresponds to a thought made all the more shallow by the process.
Henry Rollins
Black Flag
The official language of the State of Illinois shall be known hereafter as the American language, and not the English language.
Frank Church
I am just fascinated by music and I want to know how to identify all the things I love about it; to me music theory is like learning another language and then being able to explain how much you love something more clearly.
Finneas
Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Lo, each subculture has its own language, and verily I am not a parody. You don’t believe me? Get with the program, crackpot!
Barry Webster
Language is called the garment of thought: however, it should rather be, language is the flesh-garment, the body, of thought.
Thomas Carlyle
Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.
Benjamin Lee Whorf
Russian is a very deceptive language, because it looks easy at first: it's like setting out for a gentle stroll and realizing that you've committed yourself to scaling Himalayan peaks.
Armand Hammer
Modern Arabic literature achieved international recognition when Mahfouz was awarded the Nobel prize in 1988 (.....) Mahfouz also rendered Arabic literature a great service by developing, over the years, a form of language in which many of the archaisms and cliches that had become fashionable were discarded, a language that could serve as an adequate instrument for the writing of fiction in these times.
Denys Johnson-Davies
Through yoga, meditation and other spiritual practices, we can learn the ways of personal equanimity. We can also learn how to use language in beneficial ways.
Satish Kumar
If our language and culture are not passed on to immigrants, where will they learn to value integrity in government and the rule of law?
Paul Craig Roberts
