Language Quotes
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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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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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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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Language is something that springs from the biological matrix, and the neurological matrix, within us.
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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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If we could talk to the animals, learn their languages, maybe take an animal degree.
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What language are you talking in now? It appears to be bollocks.
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Acting is not my language at all.
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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 mystery lies in the use of language to express human life.
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We gave you a perfectly good language and you f***ed up.
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God gave humans language so they could conceal their thoughts from one another.
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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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The English language is not always the President's friend.
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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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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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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.
