Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.
~By Gates McFadden ~
I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek.
~By Anne Rice ~
Pauley Perrette: I was a criminal science fanatic and went to study it in college as well and I think that helped me on NCIS because I was comfortable with the language, I had studied criminal science in school for years.
~By Pauley Perrette ~
Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage.
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
Of course the other and more serious way in which it all happens is that one finds in poems and language some quality one appropriates for oneself and wishes to reproduce.
~By Robert Fitzgerald ~
First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used before that had never been used in the English language before. It's astonishing. It pours out of him.
~By Stephen Greenblatt ~
The very special place that a language occupies among institutions is undeniable, but there is much more to be said-, a comparison would tend rather to bring out the differences.
~By Ferdinand de Saussure ~
Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.
~By Heinrich Heine ~
I was very adept at acquiring languages.
~By Anna Held ~
As we embrace the American dream and the freedoms it represents, we must also ensure that those who wish to enjoy those freedoms become a part of our society and learn to speak our language.
~By Bobby Jindal ~
My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the words I play with has to expose their true meaning against their will so to speak.
~By Elfriede Jelinek ~
No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern.
~By Thomas Harrison ~
Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the language in which Keats and the rest of them wrote!
~By Wilfred Owen ~
I can't recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open - any discussion on the matter tended to mention languages whose inventors tried to keep tight control, and consequent ill fate.
~By Dennis Ritchie ~
Restoring the Welsh language in Wales is nothing less than a revolution. It is only through revolutionary means that we can succeed.
~By Saunders Lewis ~
I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965.
~By Wanda Jackson ~
All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care.
~By Bart Stupak ~
In this respect I suppose I'm the total opposite of Garry. With his very emotive body language at the board he shows and displays all his emotions. I don't.
~By Vladimir Kramnik ~
For us chess players the language of artist is something natural.
~By Vladimir Kramnik ~
Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.
~By Charles Scribner, Jr. ~
As the mother teaches her children how to express themselves in their language, so one Gypsy musician teaches the other. They have never shown any need for notation.
~By Franz Liszt ~
If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls.
~By Guido van Rossum ~
True creativity often starts where language ends.
~By Arthur Koestler ~
National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.
~By Edward Sapir ~
To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.
~By Jeanette Winterson ~
Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.
~By Russell Hoban ~
I know what the structure of the language is.
~By Kurt Loder ~
For humanism also appeals to man as man. It seeks to liberate the universal qualities of human nature from the narrow limitations of blood and soil and class and to create a common language and a common culture in which men can realize their common humanity.
~By Christopher Dawson ~
When Toots finally could breathe again and the blood returned to his brain, he recalled that he had not passed or been passed by Jackie at any time in the race. Toots never used foul language but he came close that night. Jackie paid.
~By Audrey Meadows ~
The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.
~By Marilyn Hacker ~
Language is froth on the surface of thought.
~By John McCarthy ~
For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance.
~By Joseph Brodsky ~
Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.
~By Lucille Clifton ~
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.
~By Niels Bohr ~
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
~By Ludwig Wittgenstein ~
Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
~By Noam Chomsky ~
Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.
~By Roland Barthes ~
We may come to Jesus and ask Him; He will know all about it; if He comes to a little child, he will adapt himself to the language and capacity of a little child.
~By Joseph Smith, Jr. ~
The language of America changed with the election of Bill Clinton, because with all due respect to my friends on the Republican side, Bill Clinton is the best communicator of the last 50 years. He felt your pain.
~By Frank Luntz ~
I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian.
~By Michelle Hunziker ~
I lived in England to learn English. When I went to England for the first time, it was like being on the Moon. I had no friends, I couldn't speak the language. I was very isolated.
~By Jean Alesi ~
But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.
~By Charles Ives ~
We believe the Senate language provides for federal subsidies for abortions. Plus there's a language in there where you have to pay one dollar per month, every enrollee, to pay for a fund for reproductive rights which include abortion. And that's totally against federal law. So we are saying take that out.
~By Bart Stupak ~
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining.
~By Bjarne Stroustrup ~
I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings.
~By Anne Stevenson ~
Language is a social art.
~By Willard Van Orman Quine ~
Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language.
~By Joseph Brodsky ~
I thought it was respectful to each country to sing in their language.
~By Nana Mouskouri ~
Arabs respect only the language of force.
~By Moshe Sharett ~
Language is the house of the truth of Being.
~By Martin Heidegger ~
Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels.
~By Willard Van Orman Quine ~
I grew up in France, my first language was French, and I tend to gravitate towards French cooking.
~By Robert Stack ~
After an extensive interview he arranged for my weaknesses in foreign languages to be over-looked and so I started a Biology degree at Birmingham in 1967.
~By Paul Nurse ~
The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.
~By Paul de Man ~
That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.
~By Hans Kung ~
Even if I think in English, it's more a language of acting than French.
~By Sophie Marceau ~
Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone.
~By Paul Tillich ~
Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.
~By Anna Jameson ~
In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional grammar; for instance, the study of inscriptions and their language. But not yet in the spirit of linguistics.
~By Ferdinand de Saussure ~
One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name.
~By George Saintsbury ~
We wanted the language to feel fresh, fun, and rock solid.
~By James Frank ~
No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful, although English is becoming increasingly international. And travel. You have to have a global attitude.
~By Rupert Murdoch ~
Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves.
~By Kenneth Branagh ~
The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French.
~By Wilfrid Laurier ~
Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared.
~By Jeane Kirkpatrick ~
Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.
~By George Henry Lewes ~
Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.
~By Balthus ~
We have forgotten that we have not come to an empty land to inherit it, but we have come to conquer a country from people inhabiting it, that governs it by the virtue of its language and savage culture.
~By Moshe Sharett ~
The Germans and I no longer speak the same language.
~By Marlene Dietrich ~
Our culture, language, history, and values are vital to uniting us as a nation.
~By Bobby Jindal ~
English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen.
~By Ernest Istook ~
My mom and my dad wanted my brother and I to have a better life, you know, better education, better jobs. It was probably harder, much, much harder, for my parents. When you're a kid, you can learn a language much more easily; I learned English in less than a year.
~By Mila Kunis ~
To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions.
~By Dean Kamen ~
Music is a great energizer. It's a language everybody knows.
~By Bill Hicks ~
My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.
~By Edward Gibbon ~
Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.
~By Jeanette Winterson ~
Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.
~By Eric Bentley ~
This evolution may compromise Java's claim of being simpler than C++, but my guess is that the effort will make Java a better language than it is today.
~By Bjarne Stroustrup ~
Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground.
~By Diane Wakoski ~
History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.
~By Theodor Adorno ~
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.
~By Ernest Istook ~
There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a particular language or style and become real sharks on somebody else's language.
~By Steve Lacy ~
I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to intrigue and hook a reader.
~By Dick Schaap ~
Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that.
~By John le Carre ~
The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. Not just in a 'free beer' kind of way, but also in the free speech kind of way.
~By Jimmy Wales ~
The Bible was written in several languages, embraces many literary forms, and reflects cultures very different from our own. These are important considerations for properly understanding the Bible in its context.
~By Troy Perry ~
There is no doubt that this film is autobiographical, but at the same time it also tries to portray an ordinary couple in a language that everyone can understand.
~By Sophie Marceau ~
Well, I like how people talk. I like language. You know, Linda Richman spoke in Yiddish.
~By Mike Myers ~
It would, of course, be hopeless to attempt to crowd into an international language all those local overtones of meaning which are so dear to the heart of the nationalist.
~By Edward Sapir ~
When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.
~By Billy Sunday ~
The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such.
~By Ferdinand de Saussure ~
No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.
~By Fisher Ames ~
I learned how to sign because when I was growing up in California in order to get into college you needed two semesters of language to get into a University of California school.
~By Camryn Manheim ~
Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.
~By Marshall McLuhan ~
Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.
~By Ludwig Wittgenstein ~
Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape.
~By Mason Cooley ~
To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.
~By Roland Barthes ~
Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.
~By Ferdinand de Saussure ~
My early education was in the public school system of Omaha, where, retrospectively, I realize that my high school training served me in good stead for the basic subjects of mathematics, English, foreign languages and history.
~By Lawrence R. Klein ~
All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by God to manifest himself. But this relationship is secret and incomprehensible, beyond the bounds of reason and analysis.
~By Jacques Ellul ~
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