Language Quotes
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Even today no computer can understand language as well as a three-year-old or see as well as a mouse.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran -
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
William James
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There's so much that we just accept, but the reasons behind how certain rules came to be are so fascinating and funny, it just increases your affection for language.
Ursula Dubosarsky -
I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965.
Wanda Jackson -
Second, we also got a more authentic liturgy of the people of God, in the vernacular language.
Hans Kung -
I think you can really tell a good actor if you can put a camera on them and they can just talk and emote and react and you don't have to keep cutting away from them, because they are the language and the behavior. It's all a tour-de-force performance.
Sally Kirkland -
In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the linguistic side of a large and growing School of English Studies, in which no regular provision had as yet been made for the linguistic specialist.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
I tried to take seriously the idea that if you tortured language you might arrive at some new truth. Later it became clear to me that I was retreading ground by fighting the literary battles of the 1950s and 1960s, and that I was actually a bit bored by some of the books I professed to love.
Hari Kunzru
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To become a mother is to learn a whole language - to relearn it, perhaps, as it was the tongue to which we were born - and hence gain entrance to a forgotten world of comprehension.
Rachel Cusk -
I loved everything about Spain - the people, the language, and the food!
Karlie Kloss -
Theatricality is a concept. It's not a specific language.
Gael Garcia Bernal -
Literature speaks the language of the imagination, and the study of literature is supposed to train and improve the imagination.
Northrop Frye -
Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.
M. F. Husain -
English is not my first language.
Camila Alves
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In English, I'm a little bit limited. I speak English as a second language, and that's a little limitation that I have to work around and I have to use it to my favor. So, yes, that's why I end up wanting to do more things in Latin America.
Gael Garcia Bernal -
I've built my homeland, I've even founded my state - in my language.
Mahmoud Darwish -
I think cinema has this beautiful component. It's a universal language.
Paolo Sorrentino -
Language is the tool of the tools.
Lev Vygotsky -
'Rednecks' always made me nervous to play, but I'm glad I wrote it and I continue to play it. It's just that the language is so rough.
Randy Newman -
I think going from doing TV and straight plays to Shakespeare is weird enough because you have this heightened language, and you are telling a story through metric poetry. But I think music is that place beyond poetry.
Tamsin Greig
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There is simply no room for racial, hurtful language spoken to your colleagues or anyone else.
Pam Bondi -
I want to live in Kolkata; I don't want to live in Europe - I can't write there. I write in Bengali, and I need to be surrounded by the Bengali language and culture.
Taslima Nasrin -
Sometimes I try to improve the language, the lines, or the delivery, but I don't ad-lib because I think that makes it really hard for everybody else involved.
Harrison Ford -
I like watching films that can play in any language because they're essentially silent.
Edgar Wright