Language Quotes - page 9

America's strength is not our diversity; our strength is our ability to unite people of different backgrounds around common principles. A common language is necessary to reach that goal. (Ernest Istook)
Certain kinds of speed, flow, intensity, density of attacks, density of interaction... Music that concentrates on those qualities is, I think, easier achieved by free improvisation between people sharing a common attitude, a common language. View quote
Evan Parker
It's like learning a language; you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and that has as much to do with your body as it does with vocabulary and grammar. View quote
Fred Frith
The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost and what is gained in the linguistic transition. View quote
Marilyn Hacker
The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me. View quote
Marilyn Hacker
We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans. View quote
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to master a foreign language if you're not brought up with it. View quote
Max von Sydow
I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor. View quote
Max von Sydow
Science is the international language, so when we are able to convince countries that good decision-making for human health and animal health is based upon science, that's a real success story for us. View quote
Mike Johanns
Arabs respect only the language of force. View quote
Moshe Sharett
I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery. (Robert Morgan)
You have to think an awful lot about your motivations or people's behavioral intentions or what their body language can indicate or what's really going on or what makes people sometimes do, sometimes, the irrational things they do. View quote
Ron Silver
I'm trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through. View quote
Sean Lennon
No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language. View quote
Theodore Bikel
It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word. View quote
Kevin Kline
Nothing is impossible for a man with a strong will. The possible is in store only for a man who loves the future. There is no word "impossible" in the Korean language. View quote
Kim Jong-il
The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine. View quote
Dorothy L. Sayers
We have a word game in English called "Twenty questions." To play Twenty Questions, one player imagines some object, and the other players must guess what it is by asking questions that can be answered with a "yes" or a "no." I imagine every language has a similar game, and, for those of us who speak the language of science, the game is called The Scientific Method. View quote
K. Barry Sharpless
The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language. View quote
Max Frisch
Smiles are the language of love. View quote
David Hare (dramatist)
It is a bad sign when the people of a country stop identifying themselves with the country and start identifying with a group. A racial group. Or a religion. Or a language. Anything, as long as it isn't the whole population. (Robert A. Heinlein)
Its very variety, subtlety, and utterly irrational, idiomatic complexity makes it possible to say things in English which simply cannot be said in any other language. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
These inventors were elevating the formulation of entrepreneurial ideas to the status of a visionary activity. Though forced to justify their efforts in the pragmatic language of venture capital, they were at heart utopian thinkers intent on transforming the world. View quote
Alain de Botton
If you're offended by any word, in any language, it's probably because your parents were unfit to raise a child. View quote
Doug Stanhope
Beneath the surface of states and nations, ideas and language, lies the fate of individual human beings in need. Answering their needs will be the mission of the United Nations in the century to come. View quote
Kofi Annan