Language Quotes
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Learning another language is like becoming another person.
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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 am aware of the technical distinction between ‘less’ and ‘fewer’, and between ‘uninterested’ and ‘disinterested’ and ‘infer’ and ‘imply’, but none of these are of importance to me. ‘None of these are of importance,’ I wrote there, you’ll notice – the old pedantic me would have insisted on “none of them is of importance”. Well I’m glad to say I’ve outgrown that silly approach to language
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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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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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Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
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Do not be troubled for a language, cultivate your soul and she will show herself.
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My favourite films are in languages I don't understand.
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What language are you talking in now? It appears to be bollocks.
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You can never understand one language until you understand at least two.
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Language is something that springs from the biological matrix, and the neurological matrix, within us.
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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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The only love language is 'die to self.'
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Acting is not my language at all.
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The English language is not always the President's friend.
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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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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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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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German in the most extravagantly ugly language - it sounds like someone using a sick bag on a 747.
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We gave you a perfectly good language and you f***ed up.
