Language Quotes · Page 462

I believe that the development of language - of naming, categorization, conceptualization - destroys our ability to see as we age.

— Chris Ware

There are three things without which there is no country--common language, common judicature, and co-tillage land--for without these a country cannot support…

— Thomas Davis

I think I am good in the department of body language and fighting, and stuff like that. It's just natural to me,…

— Antonio Banderas

I'm a French director, but what's important for me is that my stories have a universal message, whatever language they're filmed in.

— Maimouna Doucoure

“I’m not a linguist, but do you ever think there’s something wrong with the things we do and don’t have words for?”

— Yoon Ha Lee

A good work can be communicated across languages ... [provided one does not] fall into the trap of narrow-minded nationalistic or chauvinistic thinking.

— Gao Xingjian

I think it would be a tragic statement of the universe if Java was the last language that swept through.

— James Gosling

The Word is living, being, spirit, all verdant greening, all creativity. This Word manifests itself in every creature.

— Hildegard of Bingen

“When he looked into her dark eyes, and saw that her lips were poised between a laugh and silence, he learned the…

— Paulo Coelho

As Mono matures, people will begin to use it to write desktop components that take advantage of all the hard work thats…

— Nat Friedman

“We know that words do not teach, that only life experience teaches, but the combination of life experience coupled with words that…

— Esther Hicks

When we were children, letters were like fun toys. We played with them through our building blocks. We colored them in books.…

— Ji Lee

Contractions, 'U' for 'you' and the like are wonderful to make communication brief and efficient - but we wouldn't want all our…

— Pico Iyer

A crease found it's way onto Joss's forehead. Because he was certain that Sirus was wrong. Girls were more complicated than boys.…

— Heather Brewer

I still have a feeling that I haven't written the best that I can write. I think all poets must feel this:…

— Carol Ann Duffy

You often hear attacks on international adoption as robbing a child of his or her culture, and that's both true and false.…

— Melissa Fay Greene

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with…

— Niels Bohr

“Mr. Sinclair once asked the class to make a list of the ten most beautiful words in the English language, and the…

— Robert Cormier

I can speak Cantonese, but I can't speak about fashion - I learnt all my fashion in Europe, so often, during interviews…

— John Rocha

Always expecting Good WORDS from people is just like standing with both legs on a football and expecting it to remain still…

— Arjun Thaman

“(E)very genuine act or word, no matter how trifling it seems, leaves a sweet and strengthening influence behind”

— Louisa May Alcott

Every country has its own language, but of course the whole world speaks one language the language of love from the heart,…

— Mak_786

“Once the tyranny of literalness is rejected, all relevant considerations for giving a rational content to the words become operative.”

— Justice Frankfurter

“The ultimate language of yoga is expressed in doing yoga, a practice that transcends words as we open our lives to living…

— Mark Stephens

We live in our language like blind men walking on the edge of an abyss. This language is laden with future catastrophes.…

— Gershom Scholem

I bought a dictionary. First thing I did was, I looked up the word "dictionary", and it said "you're an asshole".

— Demetri Martin

You can't simply know something by assembling a committee of words! That's it! I'll assemble your comittee! -Professor

— Futurama

Once you embody the language, the character comes really naturally, especially when you put the costume on.

— Lucy Liu

When writing dialogue, I hear it in both Russian and English, and try to find a language that combines the two.

— David Bezmozgis

I remember her telling me that if I wanted to be a star I had to know the language in the country…

— Juan Soto

Cartoonist Walt Disney has made the twentieth century's only important contribution to music. Disney has made use of music as language.

— Jerome Kern

I mean, we should only be talking about the merits of film ["Moonlight"] because one of the great things about the visual…

— Cheo Hodari Coker

Words can carry any burden we wish. All that's required is agreement and a tradition upon which to build.

— Frank Herbert

I am my own worst critic, and I look at 'Death Sentence' now, and I go, 'Oh wow, I have really come…

— James Wan

I must fight unto the death the unholy attempt to impose British methods and British institutions on India.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Today, we're encouraged to believe that we should have a verbal interpretation for what we view as art - when in fact…

— Ken Danby

“The brain. Where words mean something. The heart. Where words feel something. When both work together. Kaboom.”

— Jill Telford

There are times in life when language fails us, when everything that needs to be said can be expressed only by saying…

— Simon Van Booy

His jargon conceals, from him, but not from us, the deep, empty hole in his mind. He uses technological language as a…

— Richard Mitchell

“writing is perilous, as you can’t always guarantee your words will be read in the spirit in which they were written.”

— Jojo Moyes