Language Quotes - Page 76

The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language.

Every word was once a poem. Every new relation is a new word.

For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead.

An answer in words is delusive; it is really no answer to the questions you ask.

The language of the street is always strong.

A great artist can really enter the logic of any particular mazurka and fully understand the language of Chopin's music.

After [Donald] Trump and his campaign manager both initially denied having anything to do with the platform change, a Trump campaign official now admits that the campaign pushed to soften the Russian language in the platform. It says it was done specifically at Trump`s request.

Synergy is the only word in our language that means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the separately observed behaviors of any of the system's separate parts or any subassembly of the system's parts.

Usage is the best language teacher.

I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.

I'm really into production and I'm also into producing my own sound because the sonics, in a way, is the language.

My film is in French. It's not something folkloric. It's who we are. There's this tension about immigrants coming in. Will they learn French? Will they adapt? In this film, I'm on the reverse side because Monsieur Lazhar comes from a society where French is also the second language.

A poem is a form of refrigeration that stops language going bad.

History is not a nightmare from which. I am trying to awaken, but rather, a glorious tale which I wish to be cast in.

What I liked about Greece was [...] the impressive force of the language itself, unconfined by dictionaries, spoken in the streets, in cafés and in the country.

Language does not stand still. Surprisingly, despite this knowledge, most speakers are fearful of change.

I worked in a bookstore in Oslo, importing the English-language books.

I am learning the Language of World and everything in the world is beginning to make sense to me

Immensely clever and libidinously hilarious.The most astonishing thing about Love in a Dead Language is its ingenious construction. Insofar as any printed volume can lay claim to being a multimedia work, this book earns that distinction.

I think language is the most important thing that human beings have ever accomplished, and the only thing that's really going to get us all out of the troubles that we find ourselves in.

To feel estranged from language is to lose your own body.

Poetry is very playful with language. I think all poetry, at its heart, is playful. It's doing unusual and playful things with the language, stirring it up. And prose is not doing that. Primarily it's not attempting to do that.

I approach writing a poem in a much different state than when I am writing prose. It's almost as if I were working in a different language when I'm writing poetry. The words - what they are and what they can become - the possibilities of the words are vastly expanded for me when I'm writing a poem.

Poetry doesn't function by saying things straightforwardly because the language is too imprecise, too limited often, to address the underlying subject of most poems.

Poetry uses language to create a music borne inside human experiences and emotions.