Language Quotes
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If (early humans) weren't using and refining language I would like to know what they were doing with their autocatalytically increasing brains.
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Ballet is not technique, not a way of doing things, but a means of expression that comes perhaps more closely to the inner language of man than any other.
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It is clear that whatever language of democracy Barack Obama and his administration use is very tactically deployed, and has as its main aim the extension of US power and interests.
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Acting is not my language at all.
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What language are you talking in now? It appears to be bollocks.
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Language is something that springs from the biological matrix, and the neurological matrix, within us.
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God gave humans language so they could conceal their thoughts from one another.
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We gave you a perfectly good language and you f***ed up.
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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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The mystery lies in the use of language to express human life.
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If I walk into a room of 500 people, my standard is, if I can't give 400 or 450 of you something, a language or a new way of seeing something, then I have failed. If I get 100 of you, I am a failure. I have to get a majority.
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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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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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The English language is not always the President's friend.
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Language always pre-exists us: it is always already 'in place', waiting to assign us our places within it.
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Music is a language, a universal language.
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We must find a common language and that common language for us is the key of E, English. You understand, right? In music, like in language, we must find common ground. When an orchestra tunes, that common ground is A.
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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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German in the most extravagantly ugly language - it sounds like someone using a sick bag on a 747.
