Language Quotes
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I used language because I wanted to offer content that people - not necessarily art people - could understand.
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No one yet understands the mysterious intelligence within plants or the implications of the idea that nature communicates in a basic chemical language that is unconscious but profound. We do not yet understand how hallucinogens transform the message in the unconscious into revelations beheld by the conscious mind.
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Most English speakers do not have the writer's short fuse about seeing or hearing their language brutalized. This is the main reason, I suspect, that English is becoming the world's universal tongue: English-speaking natives don't care how badly others speak English as long as they speak it. French, once considered likely to become the world's lingua franca, has lost popularity because those who are born speaking it reject this liberal attitude and become depressed, insulted or insufferable when their language is ill used.
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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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The goal of 'Data Detectives' is to spark the imagination of students around the globe by making them think about new technologies that will impact humanity in ways similar to language and art.
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Often, the teachers would ask me what language we spoke at home. This was a not-so-subtle way of discovering if we spoke Yiddish which we didn’t and were therefore Jewish which we were.
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Language is a nice way to remember things.
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I think records and music are more appropriate and more respectful of the human soul than the churches are. And more respectful of the needs of humans to communicate with the aspects of themselves that are neglected by language.
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I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language.
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Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.
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A "poem" is understood as something referring to a failure of language to be equal to the possibilities it figures.
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The artist's life is to be where life is, active life, found in neither ivory tower nor concrete shelter; he must be out listening to everything, looking at everything, and thinking it all out afterward.
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Everybody should learn sign language or, at least, 'Hello, do you need help? How are you?'
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This language is beginning to invent another me.
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All alone - shorn of context, without captions - a photograph is neither true nor false.... For truth, properly considered, is about the relationship between language and the world, not about photographs and the world.
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I remember reading once that some fellows use language to conceal thought; but it's been my experience that a good many more use it instead of thought.
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I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.
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There is no right language or wrong language any more than there are right or wrong clothes.
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Skepticism cannot be revolutionary, even though it speaks the language of revolution.
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The highest thoughts are those which are least dependent on language, and the dignity of any composition and praise to which it is entitled are in exact proportion to its dependency of language or expression.
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Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.
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If you look at some of the language in the basic writings of Hamas, there is that famous call to push the Israelis into the sea. Now, I would say that most Palestinian politicians on the ground say, of course that's not what we want, and even within Hamas there is some published debate about that claim, but until the claim is removed, it's still noxious.
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The key is that Jesus does want to speak to us-to you-today. In your own language, just as a friend would speak. We simply need to take the time to listen.
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The language of faith is crucial because it affords human beings the privilege of intimacy with the ultimate.
