Best 3547 quotes in «language quotes» category

I believe on foreign policy that there is little difference between the Democrats and Republicans on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. We believe that the best course for containing North Korea's nuclear program is through diplomacy, and we disagree with the language the President Donald Trump has used, and the fact that he's made it more difficult for diplomacy to work.

I believe so deeply in the primacy of language, in lifting your prose to the highest level you're capable of and making your words symphonic.

I believe rhythmic sensibility is always a product and extension of language, defined broadly, among other things. But it is an immediate product and extension - no time elapses between the exposure to language and the creation of rhythmic sensibility.

I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes.

I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language.

I believe we are being dishonest with language minority groups if we tell them they can take full part in American life without learning the English language.

I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators "the haute couture of language.

I can fluently speak five languages: English, emoji, sexting, sarcasm and sass.

I can hardly believe that I even know this, but I am aware that Noah Webster's original dictionary, apart from being the first truly American lexicography, was a kind of line in the sand. It claimed a very discrete, American form of the English language, explicitly to compare it to the English of our erstwhile colonial masters who had been operating under Dr. Johnson's dictionary rules for well over a century.

I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity.

I can read and speak Hindi quite well now and that's quite an achievement considering I didn't know the language at all when I came down here.

I can read your body language like a conversation

I can't imagine my world without music. It's the universal language; what I make comes from my heart. What I listen to from others stirs it.

...I can’t stop squirming. If fidgets were Wikipedia edits, I would have completely revamped the entry on guilt by now, and translated it into five new languages.

I can understand German as well as the maniac that invented it, but I talk it best through an interpreter.

I claim to have been a lifelong and wholly disinterested friend of the British people.

I certainly like that the Spanish language is spoken around me.

I certainly self-police my language depending on who I'm talking to. I try to be very careful about using filler words, about not drawling certain vowels, even when I can't say "drawl" without drawling. That's kind of sad, because self-policing inhibits communication. You're more focused on the words coming out of your mouth or that should not be coming out of your mouth than making a connection with the person you're speaking to.

I come from a place where you don't need to talk all the time. There are sign languages you learn.

I come from a tradition - from the Jewish tradition, which believes in words, in language, in communication.

I certainly don't walk around my home or being with my family and just using profane language all the time, but on stage, it's a constant.

I chose a pseudonym, Chris Marker, pronounceable in most languages, because I was very intent on traveling.

I communicate much better with cats, usually. I know them and their body language - as my own cats know mine very well. Cats are adept at reading subtle signals.

I consider myself a pretty good conversationalist, but you wind up being downgraded to idiot status when you don't speak the language!

I couldn't live without music. I experienced things through music in different countries where you cannot speak the same language, but the music and the dance relates everything.

I cried in English, I cried in french, I cried in all the languages, because tears are the same all around the world.

I could speak Spanish fluently growing up, but I'm so out of practice, and I have such a tremendous respect for songwriting in the Spanish language.

I could teach you how to speak my language, Rosetta Stone.

I could eat healthier, I could drink less. I should be learning another language and working out more, but I'm just always saying, 'Ah, I could get hit by a bus tomorrow.'

Ideas do not respect national frontiers, and this is especially so where language and other traditions are in common.

I definitely have a gift for language that is rhythmic and attractive to the ear, and I have interesting [verbal] imagery which I guess is a poetic touch.

I decided to come back and teach goodness in this business. To teach love, because music is the universal language. We are God's bouquet, and through music we become one.

I definitely do see language serving its users, and when it no longer serves them we need to look for new words.

I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.

I dislike pastiche; it attracts attention to the language only.

I didn't know the language of my own wisdom. I wanted to be loved and after all the various relationships I went through, I finally realized I am love. I carry love.

I do not pretend that language is science. It isan instrument for the attainment of science.

I do love to interpret songs in American Sign Language.

I do not share the wish to see my language dead and decently buried

I do have a regard for the musicality of language that came from BBC sitcoms like 'Fawlty Towers.'

I don't have any phobias with any language, and I've grown up listening to Anglo-American rock n roll as well as Welsh-language punk rock and I'm all for sharing languages.

I don't know what it is about the french language, it seems to be scared of coming out of the mouth so it comes out the nose instead.

I don't know whose sensibility I'm responding to. Until someone starts pushing against what they've inherited and starts making their own decisions about language, it's difficult.

I don't like reading music. It's like learning a language. You can't read music proficiently overnight. It takes time, it's boring work.

I don't know what the language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called Fortran.

I don't speak anything fluently, but I love picking up languages and I do this Duolingo app. I started when I moved to Sweden, when I was about 19, 20. I really loved the language; it was super melodic and really sexy.

I don't read my reviews, I measure them.

I don't speak ... I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own.

I don't think all poems need to be written in conversational language - those are often great poems but there should also be poems of incoherent bewilderment and muddled mystery.

I don't speak anything very well. The longer that you travel, you find out that you really don't even need to speak the language to get around and get things done, to live in those places. If you're somewhat resourceful and perceptive, you're pretty much going to know what's going on because human nature is human nature: they understand it, you understand it, and it works.