English Quote by Peter Brook Download Open image “If, in English, we speak words, the French speak thoughts.” — Peter Brook ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare English French Language Philosophy of Mind Speak Thoughts Words
We think in language. We think in words. Language is the landscape of thought. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
What must the English and French think of the language of our philosophers when we Germans do not understand it ourselves? — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought. — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
A French politician once wrote that it was a peculiarity of the French language that in it words occur in the order in which… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Language surely does affect our thoughts, rather than just labeling them for the sake of labeling them. Most obviously, language is the conduit through… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
If you go to France, you have to speakFrench. If you speak in English, no one looks at you. On the one hand we… — Raj Thackeray Copy Share Image
We think in language. The quality of our thoughts and ideas can only be as good as the quality of our language. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language. — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
The life of a play begins and ends in the moment of performance. This is where author, actors, and directors express all they have… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
Shakespeare doesn't belong to the past. If his material is valid, it is valid now. It's like coal. The only meaningfulness of a piece… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
Never ask yourself what you have learned... only ask yourself what are the circumstances which are different from last year. In that way, you… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
I've always worked a bit like a cook in a big restaurant, where you've got lots and lots of things laid out and you… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
Drama is exposure; it is confrontation; it is contradiction and it leads to analysis, construction, recognition and eventually to an awakening of understanding. — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
The work of a director can be summed up in two very simple words. Why and How. — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned,… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
An icon painter starts not with Jesus Christ but by finding earth and rubbing. Now what is earth, what are you rubbing in directing? — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
The work of rehearsal is looking for meaning and then making it meaningful. — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
Every choice I've ever made has been dictated by a formless hunch rather than by strict logic. — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
English teachers tend to put more thought in the books than the author did — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nothing teaches great writing like the very best books do. Yet, good teachers often help students cross that bridge, and I have to say… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much. — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolutely lovely, but very English. — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
No, I didn't forget Samoan - I understand it when you talk to me but, you know, to put phrases together I sound like… — Junior Seau Copy Share Image
The larger an English industry was, the more likely it was to go bankrupt, because the English were not naturally corporate people; they disliked… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Oh, I think country has changed tremendously. I think country has totally changed. Country music when I was a kid was Hank Williams. If… — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
It's easier for me to act in Spanish, but as soon as I get the lines in English and I know them by heart,… — Ana de la Reguera Copy Share Image
My favorite subject in high school was English. I love reading and writing, and I felt really supported in this subject, and my least… — Christie Laing Copy Share Image
In the U.S., the term 'general aviation' means its exact opposite, the way 'public school' does in England. An English public school is private… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
