Language Quotes
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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 "poem" is understood as something referring to a failure of language to be equal to the possibilities it figures.
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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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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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If you do not know his language, you will never understand a foreigner's silence.
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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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Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.
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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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Two of the hardest words in the language to rhyme are life and love. Of all words!
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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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Do not be troubled for a language, cultivate your soul and she will show herself.
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My art speaks and will continue to speak, transcending barriers of nationality, language and other forces that may be divisive, fortifying the greatness of the spirit that has always been the foundation of the Ojibwa people.
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It seems to me that it is psyche in a way that has become occluded by the perverse development of language.
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Even though I started playing the violin when I was four, my early chamber music experiences helped build a strong foundation for my solo work, as all music is a rich language and dialogue that is shared on stage, no matter what the size of the ensemble.
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But people find it easy to take shots on Twitter, and to use racial slurs and bullying language far worse than what you'll see from me. It's sad and somewhat unbelievable to me that the world is still this way, but it is. I can handle it.
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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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Two of the saddest words in the English language are, 'What party?' And LA is the 'What party?' capital of the world.
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Language is a nice way to remember things.
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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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People can try to make me into anything they want, but I think they're really throwing around language but saying the same thing.
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Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
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The problem is we have to transcend cultural languages and fall into a phase with the communication systems that nature has placed all around us.
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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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Because French is the language of love, my boy. Something you should keep in mind, but will soon forget.
