Language Quotes - Page 70

Some very considerable part of the gestural language of public places that had once belonged to cigarettes now belonged to phones.

That old adage, that "music is a universal language", is really true. Even if all of the lyrics are understood, they seem to connect with it really well and in some ways, more so.

The old adage, that "music is a universal language", is really true.

The true language of commerce is the natural conversation between human beings.

Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption.

Language is the spiritual exhalation of the nation.

Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the language in which Keats and the rest of them wrote!

I don't see poetry as something that has to do with too much emotion anyway. It has to do with language.

You don't actually have to understand the song to be emotionally moved and uplifted, whereas with language it becomes quirky and analytical.

Artists are perennially implored to consider 'the limitations of the medium.' Whoever invented this expression exaggerated the limitations of the English language. We are not concerned with what effects cannot be produced with our materials.

Human language is mythological and metaphorical by nature.

The poet marries the language, and out of this marriage the poem is born.

It is impossible to translate poetry. Can you translate music?

My interest in language is steadfast, but I think each project and its accompanying intentions dictate how language must be used.

Speaking more than one language and living in a multicultural family and environment did not seem like anything but what it was: the world I lived in.

Sci-Fi is incredibly challenging and has its own language. I have to speak its language; it's not going to learn mine.

To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost -that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization -is to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization.

I've been in New York only a few days and I have learned only two words of your language: one is Swell, and the other is Lousy. ... 'It's swell to be with you and excuse, please, my lousy English!

The language is spare and under control and has a genuine immediacy...The poems never preach but are lined out with a cool and therefore devastating effect

I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.

When you hear somebody speaking in an accent, it's almost like they're invading your language while they're speaking to you because if you hear someone speak another language, you almost don't care. But when they speak your language with an accent, it feels like an invasion of something that belongs to you. And, immediately, we change.

Regret; The saddest word in the English language.

The most difficult thing is that I don't speak Mandarin and I had this experience - of working in a language that I don't understand - before and it's really horrible. Eighteen years ago, I played a mute in one film because I couldn't speak Mandarin. There was another film where I had to speak Vietnamese. It's horrible!

After meeting the family, they really felt like a sitcom family, ... I thought it would be cool if we did a reality show, but told it with the visual language of a sitcom format.

Make it, not make it? What's the difference? Music is a language, it's a dance of life, and it can be a part of your life without being something that earns.