Language Quotes
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Music is a language, a universal language.
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History is like self-reflection through the medium of language propelling itself into self-recognition.
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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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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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Music truly is the universal language.
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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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Obviously, it's some kind of freely commanded modality in the psyche with which we can have a relationship if we will but evolve a control language and a dialogue. And it remains mysterious.
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The reformers' preferred metaphor is "leveling the playing field." They should listen to the logic of their language: fields are leveled by bulldozers.
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He who has learned what is commonly considered the whole art of painting, that is, the art of representing any natural object faithfully, has as yet only learned the language by which his thoughts are to be expressed.
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It is silly to call fat people "gravitationally challenged", a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom of political frustration.
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It's no big deal about how you get language to evolve. You cause language to evolve by saying new and intelligent things to each other.
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I think it's wrong to write in a totally esoteric language when you want to talk about things which interest a multitude of women.
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If you actually look at the etymology of the word 'hallucination', what it's come to mean in English is a delusion. But what it really means in the original language is to wander in the mind. That's the meaning of 'hallucination', to wander in the mind.
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I know how to say 'no' in twelve languages. That's enough for a woman.
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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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What must the English and French think of the language of our philosophers when we Germans do not understand it ourselves?
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Do not be troubled for a language, cultivate your soul and she will show herself.
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With her words in my mind while I'm reading, she is as real as I am. Gloriously daft, drop-dead charming, full of bookish nonsense and foul language, brave and generous. She's right here. Afraid and exhausted, alone, but fighting.
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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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My favourite films are in languages I don't understand.
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Matter is simply a concept. The world is made of language.
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If the writer is a woman, feminist or not, it will give the language something that it would not have if it had been used by a man.
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In Israel, the role of the writer is dictated by the language in which you write. Writers see themselves as cultural prophets.
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There is no right language or wrong language any more than there are right or wrong clothes.
