Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
It is impossible to prefigure the salvation of the world in the same language by which the world has been dismembered and defaced.
Some very considerable part of the gestural language of public places that had once belonged to cigarettes now belonged to phones.
It's still a mystery to me exactly how I learned the language. [But] I was 19 years old and I had very urgent things to tell girls.
The whole world has changed, so you just stay current with the world. There's nothing different in my language of how I say things.
Of course language is not an infallible guide, but it contains, with all its defects, a good deal of stored insight and experience.
Sometimes, you just have to reassure the ones you love in precise language that you'll always be there. Sometimes words are enough.
However well you know the French language you've learnt it the wrong way, not as a native speaker would. That's my problem as well.
If we had had the right technology back then, you would have seen Eva Braun on the Donahue show and Adolf Hitler on Meet the Press.
The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking.
Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.
A cliché is like a coin that has been handled too much. Once language has been overly handled, it no longer leaves a clear imprint.
Love one another, push the perimeter of this glorious language. Lastly, please show proper courtesy; open not your neighbor's mail.
Writing a poem is always a process of subtracting: you start with all of language available to you, and you choose a smaller field.
Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.
Language is the most beautiful and destructive thing because it allows you to express yourself, but it totally confuses everything.
There is a kind of nonlinguistic thought going on which we are trying to represent in language, and we know that sometimes we fail.
I arrived in the middle of a press conference - as boring a thing to sit through if you don't know the language as it is if you do.
When fundamentalism comes to kill, it can kill with the language - the Apostle James says this, not me - and even with a knife, no?
Average. It was the worst, most disgusting word in the English language. Nothing meaningful or worthwhile ever came from that word.
Language is a window into human nature, but it is also a fistula, an open wound through which we're exposed to an infectious world.
It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.
I would love to learn other languages, maybe French? My uncle speaks German so maybe also German? Chinese seems to be too difficult.
For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.
If language is intimately related to being human, then when we study language we are, to a remarkable degree, studying human nature.
Nothing which is harmonized by the bond of the Muse can be changed from its own to another language without destroying its sweetness
The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.
Language can be used to so many diverse ends. It can be used to clarify and, of course, it can be used to obfuscate, confuse, evade.
It's difficult to act in a language that's not your own. It takes a long time to put your head around it and feel confident with it.
To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.
Obviously, there is pleasure in the execution of any sort of art, and using language, as Nabokov felt also, is an exquisite process.
The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.
Our own genomes carry the story of evolution, written in DNA, the language of molecular genetics, and the narrative is unmistakable.
The language of the novel differs from the just-the-facts language of the old tales. It's robust and earthy, sometimes even baroque.
I think being able to speak different languages, and being able to act in those languages is something that's really very rewarding.
Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech.
Over, over, there is a soft place in my heart for all that is over, no, for the being over, words have been my only loves, not many.
Language is like music; we rejoice in beauty, range, and quality in both, and we are demeaned by the repetition of a few sour notes.
The constructions of language, which is to say the constructions of thought, are formed within experience, not the other way around.
Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted.
For economic safety for the future, you must have multiple skills and languages. Success is basically being the best that you can be.
When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.
The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet
Be careful. I wouldn’t want anything to happen to the worst Spanish student in the history of the language.” I laughed. “No problemo.
Nobody knows everything-one of the pleasures of language is that there is always something new to learn-and everybody makes mistakes.
I'm inspired by playwrights, novelists, poets: The value of language has been a lifelong passion of mine. I enjoy it. I'm good at it.
I don't think people are going to talk in the future. They're going to communicate through eye contact, body language, emojis, signs.
What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today when human contacts go so fast. Fashion is instant language.
I consider myself a pretty good conversationalist, but you wind up being downgraded to idiot status when you don't speak the language!