“when you describe something by using a word for something that it isn’t. This means that the word metaphor is a metaphor.… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Music is essentially an emotional language, so you want to feel something from the relationships and build music based on those feelings. — Howard Shore Copy Share Image
I am convinced that abstract form, imagery, color, texture, and material convey meaning equal to or greater than words. — Katherine McCoy Copy Share Image
“The reading of the ancients awakened new delight in the melody and beauty of language: men became intoxicated with words. The practice… — G. H. (George Herbert) Mair Copy Share Image
“It has long been said that the three hardest words to say in the English language are I love you. We heartily… — Steven D. Levitt Copy Share Image
It's kind of the filmmaker's job to use visual, cinematic language in a way possible to tell a story that reaches and… — Francis Lawrence Copy Share Image
Words have a universe of qualities other than those of descriptive relation: Hardness, Density, Sound-Shape, Vector-Force, & Degrees of Transparency/Opacity. — Clark Coolidge Copy Share Image
Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line often separates affirmation from negation, sense from… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. Let them make… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
One has to choose between engaging in stylistic research or the mere recording of facts. I feel that a filmmaker must go… — Djibril Diop Mambety Copy Share Image
The erotic element always present in fashion, the kiss of loving labor on the body, is now overtly expressed by language. Belts… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
“In the beginning was the word, and primitive societies venerated poets second only to their leaders. A poet had the power to… — Kevin Crossley-Holland Copy Share Image
“This is the pre-verbal language that linguists call Mentalese. Hardly a language, more a matrix of shifting patterns, consolidating and compressing meaning… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
The big problem in translating is that we had to translate the language. People may not know that we record the podcast… — Scott Aukerman Copy Share Image
“In learning a language, when from mere words we reach the laws of words, we have gained a great deal. But if… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
I've been working hard on [Ulysses] all day," said Joyce. Does that mean that you have written a great deal?" I said.… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
You've heard that old expression from Shakespeare, 'Just speak the speech'? The words themselves will take you to the reality of the… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
The current transgender movement is composed of a great number of factions, divided by those old favorites of class, race, age, language,… — Kate Bornstein Copy Share Image
If someone tried to assimilate you for years, if your language was forbidden, if the names of your hometown were changed, what… — Osman Baydemir Copy Share Image
What the psychedelics are for us as a species, rather than for each one of us as an individual, what they are… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I believe something that can be said in two words should not use four, and if something can be said without a… — Shefali Shah Copy Share Image
I think it's really important these days to be able to relate to how the music flows and be able to speak… — Matt Cameron Copy Share Image
So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do… — John Locke Copy Share Image
You know what would help the instruction form? Verbs! Verbs would be nice! Because they help you get to the end of… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
Pop music has greater power to change people and to affect people because it's a universal language. You don't have to understand… — Paul Epworth Copy Share Image
We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
“There's magic in the words. In the right order, they can make you cry, make you smile, or even make you stronger.… — Juhana Day Copy Share Image
XML is not a language in the sense of a programming language any more than sketches on a napkin are a language. — Charles Simonyi Copy Share Image
I don't really see any difference between Pakistani people and the Indians. We eat the same food, we speak the same language.… — Shahid Afridi Copy Share Image
Im a person of faith, and the language that I use to define my faith, the symbols and metaphors that I rely… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
The idea of working with Steven Spielberg was very attractive. He's such a master. He knows the language of the camera and… — Max von Sydow Copy Share Image
What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
Appropriation was the language of my generation in many ways. It came out of Duchamp, Warhol, Johns, Lichtenstein. — Deborah Kass Copy Share Image
The power of real debate is in the language and intellectual honesty of the debaters, alongside the engagement of spectators. — Ruzwana Bashir Copy Share Image
To understand the Universe, you must understand the language in which it's written, the language of Mathematics. — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
“This sentence is filled with unnecessary words, phrases and rhetorical throat-clearing devices and is marked by a generally bombastic tone.” — Charles M. Fox Copy Share Image
When it comes to personal communication, words are all we've got. It is the simple use of language that makes us human… — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share Image
“It's not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, for reality is more important than… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Expression and communication in the peak–experiences tend often to become poetic, mythical, and rhapsodic, as if this were the natural kind of… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image