Best 3547 quotes in «language quotes» category

I was concerned with something like the notion of 'language speaking the subject,' and with the transformation of the woman herself into a sign in a system of signs that represent a system of food production, a system of harnessed subjectivity.

I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano.

I was more worn out with the "Odyssey" than it was with the "Iliad." I mean, just comparing those two - you can see how it's changing, how the language of the "Iliad" is somehow monstrously new - and that language of the "Odyssey" is more comfortable, even for us.

I was never much of a reader. I'm a slow reader, which is unusual, because I'm so into language and I love words so much. But it's hard for me to read.

I was very adept at acquiring languages.

I was worried people would laugh at me when I started to talk the language, but they were just pleasantly surprised that I could. The sense of humour here is great - once I could have a giggle, I settled down.

I will never stop working on Spanish-language projects because that's my language, and because I'm a Latina and Mexican before anything else.

I will not allow my daughters to learn foreign languages because one tongue is sufficient for a woman.

I wish that I spoke more languages because I think each language is a window completely.

I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.

I wish that I spoke more languages. I speak a couple languages, but not well enough to really dub myself. French is really the only one, and it's a difficult thing.

I work in Hebrew. Hebrew is deeply inspired by other languages. Not now, for the last three thousand years, Hebrew has been penetrated and fertilized by ancient Semitic languages - by Aramaic, by Greek, by Latin, by Arabic, by Yiddish, by Latino, by German, by Russian, by English, I could go on and on. It's very much like English. The English language took in many many fertilizations, many many genes, from other languages, from foreign languages - Latin, French, Nordic languages, German, Scandinavian languages. Every language has influences and is an influence.

I worked in a bookstore in Oslo, importing the English-language books.

I would love to learn other languages, maybe French? My uncle speaks German so maybe also German? Chinese seems to be too difficult.

I would have thought it possible to choose delegates for these larger conferences who, even if they could not speak the principal languages, could at least understand them or could have friends seated beside them who could keep them informed on essential points.

I would not rob you of your food or your clothes or your umbrella, but if I caught your German out I would take it. But I don't study any more,- I have given it up.

I write drama in the English language. If I wasn't working in London I'd be doing something wrong.

I write on a visual canvas, 'seeing' a scene in my thoughts before translating it into language, so I'm a visual junkie.

I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.

Jazz is the language of the emotions.

Jargon: any technical language we do not understand.

JavaScript is the only language that I'm aware of that people feel they don't need to learn before they start using it.

Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.

Jim Jarmusch: Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.

Job Control Language is the worst programming language ever designed anywhere by anybody for any purpose.

Just as surely as every new language mastered opens up a new world, so knowledge of a Beethoven, a Chopin, or a Schumann opens up a new world in spiritual beauty and thought.

Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt.

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.

Kindness is a language herd by deaf men and felt by blind men.

Language comes into being, like consciousness, from the basic need, from the scantiest intercourse with other human.

Knowledge and Experience do not necessarily speak the same language.

Language allows you to implant a thought from your mind directly into someone else's mind, and they can attempt to do the same to you, without either of you having to perform surgery.

Language always preserves a play or figure/ground relation between experience, and perception and its replay in expression.

Language does not make one an elite.

Language is a machine for making falsehoods.

Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.

Language is a weapon, keep it honed!

Language is a window into human nature, but it is also a fistula, an open wound through which we're exposed to an infectious world.

Language is capable of becoming the objective repository of vast accumulations of meaning and experience, which it can then preserve in time and transmit to following generations.

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

language is magical - it's a form of conjuring. If you do it convincingly, readers will follow you.

Language is the best, best toy.

Language is the leading principle which unites or separates the tribes of mankind.

Language is the tool of my trade -and I use them all - all the Englishes I grew up with

Language is what stops the heart exploding.

Language lies outside of society because it is its foundation; but it also lies within society because that is the only place where it exists and the only place where it develops.

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.

Languages are jealous sovereigns, and passports are rarely allowed for travellers to cross their strictly guarded borders.

Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence.

Languages shape the way we think, or don't.