Language Quotes
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It's my language, the language I speak. I've spent a lot more time playing music than talking or writing.
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The form language used by the ancient Egyptians in their structures is minimal.
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The only living language is the language in which we think and have our being.
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Photography has fooled the world. There's no more convincing fraud. Its images are nothing but the expression of the invisible man working behind the camera. They are not reality, they form part of the language of culture.
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You don't actually have to understand the song to be emotionally moved and uplifted, whereas with language it becomes quirky and analytical.
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The change Twitter has wrought on language itself is nothing compared with the change it is bringing to the study of language.
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The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane.
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'Refudiate,' 'misunderestimate,' 'wee-wee'd up.' English is a living language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. Got to celebrate it!'
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If the only language Mr. Milosevic understands is force, then he will get force.
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Church reminded me very much of going to shul. It was a bunch of men wearing long robes, speaking in a language I didn't understand.
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Psycho-babble is that language spoken by sailors who have become so interested in navigating their way around their boat that they have forgotten to read the stars and sea. They may be able to get from the galley to the head but will be lost in their journey from point to port.
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This language is beginning to invent another me.
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I feel that music is more flexible than language and your song, or "piece" is only as flexible as your least flexible component.
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A philosophical mythology lies concealed in language, which breaks out again at every moment, no matter how cautious we may be.
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People over the age of thirty were born before the digital revolution really started. We've learned to use digital technology-laptops, cameras, personal digital assistants, the Internet-as adults, and it has been something like learning a foreign language. Most of us are okay, and some are even expert. We do e-mails and PowerPoint, surf the Internet, and feel we're at the cutting edge. But compared to most people under thirty and certainly under twenty, we are fumbling amateurs. People of that age were born after the digital revolution began. They learned to speak digital as a mother tongue.
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What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into concepts.
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The First Amendment...begins with the five loveliest words in the English language: 'Congress shall make no law'.
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if you are perfectly willing to shock an individual verbally, the next thing you will be doing is to shock him practically.
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The language of imagination is the native language of man. It is the language of his excited intellect, of his aroused passions, of his devotion, of all the higher moods and temperaments of his mind.
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The script of Regression wasn't the draw for me. It was largely Alejandro Amenabar and his way of talking. To hear him talking about the script was way more interesting than the script. He wrote it, and so, English is his second language. It's an interesting thing. I've had that before. I was directed by Alfonso Cuarón before, too. It's always interesting when you're being directed by somebody like that. So much of directing is about communication, and finding the right words, and what it means, and how to convey certain emotions and ideas.
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It's very rare that someone who is so good at the language of numbers, is as good at the language of life. They're two very different worlds.
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Everything starts to break down, however, when a species gains language. What we talk about isn’t what we experience—we speak chiefly of interesting things, and those tend to be things that are uncommon.
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It's not that Perl programmers are idiots, it's that the language rewards idiotic behavior in a way that no other language or tool has ever done.
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Better say nothing at all. Language is worth a thousand pounds a word!
