Language Quotes
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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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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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Acting is not my language at all.
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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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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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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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Language always pre-exists us: it is always already 'in place', waiting to assign us our places within it.
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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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We gave you a perfectly good language and you f***ed up.
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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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The mystery lies in the use of language to express human life.
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What language are you talking in now? It appears to be bollocks.
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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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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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The English language is not always the President's friend.
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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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Language is something that springs from the biological matrix, and the neurological matrix, within us.
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Music is a language, a universal language.
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German in the most extravagantly ugly language - it sounds like someone using a sick bag on a 747.
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
