Quotes about what Language is

While I'm grateful for the freedom to express one's self, I've learned there are limits to what language is appropriate and I'm deeply sorry for how these lyrics could be interpreted. Votes: 3

War is what happens when language fails. Votes: 2

I know what the structure of the language is. Votes: 2

Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think. Votes: 2

I assume the body language no matter what in doing voiceover. There is a transformative aspect. Votes: 2

The market is like a language, and you have to be able to understand what they're saying. Votes: 2

The wonderful thing is, imagination is universal all over the world, no matter what the language is. Votes: 2

My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldn't be able to say anything. Votes: 2

The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language. Votes: 2

What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language. Votes: 2

Music is its own language - if you don't speak it, it's hard to say what you're trying to do. Votes: 2

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand. Votes: 2

People are under the impression that dictionaries legislate language. What a dictionary does is keep track of usages over time. Votes: 2

The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said. Votes: 2

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really. Votes: 2

The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book. Votes: 2

What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit of America. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What is language? Where does it come from, how does it work, what does it do? Votes: 2

Obviously no language is innate. Take any kid from any race, bring them up in any culture and they will learn the language equally quickly. So no particular language is in the genes. But what might be in the genes is the ability to acquire language. Votes: 2

The advantage of the gypsy language, even though I don't understand it that much, the language is perfect melody. So if you propose the movie the way I do, then the language is just one part of the melody. Orchestrating all inside, and the language is following the meaning of what they say, and it's never the same as written. Votes: 2

Typography is what language looks like. Votes: 0

Language can do what it can't say. Votes: 0

Language is what stops the heart exploding. Votes: 0

Love will heal What language fails to know Votes: 0

In what language does rain fall over tormented cities? Votes: 0

Don't worry about what your mother thinks of your language. Votes: 0

What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds! Votes: 0

Words performed through music can express what language alone had exhausted Votes: 0

Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams. Votes: 0

Sometimes before people know what they're saying, they already love the language. Votes: 0

What humans do with the language of mathematics is to describe patterns... Votes: 0

...The plural of elf is elves! What a language! What a world! Votes: 0

When a language die we don't know what we lose with language. Votes: 0

If you want to know what's important to a culture, learn their language. Votes: 0

Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about. Votes: 0

Oh, God, I don't know what's more difficult, life or the English language. Votes: 0

Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language. Votes: 0

Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are. Votes: 0

I master only the language of others. Mine does with me what it wants. Votes: 0

Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent. Votes: 0

On what rests the hope of the republic? One country, one language, one flag! Votes: 0

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are. Votes: 0

"What is the most beautiful word in the language?" The elderly lawyer quickly replied: "Home." Votes: 0

You must feel what you're singing, not just have a good presentation of the language. Votes: 0

In songwriting, I needed language. And I always believed in singing about what I do. Votes: 0

When babies listen, what they're doing is taking statistics on the language that they hear. Votes: 0

Language is what books do very well and movement is what movies does very well. Votes: 0

Our language for describing emotions is very crude... that's what music is for, I guess. Votes: 0

It makes sense to me that the polyglot wouldn't know what language he dreamed in. Votes: 0

No matter what your cultural sophistication or what language you speak, everyone can understand images. Votes: 0

We're all surrounded by what I call faux language, fake language of commerce, of news media. Votes: 0

Crusaders have just f-ked me over what a bas-rd joke, excuse my language I'm absolutely furious. Votes: 0

Mind your language, count your words, mean what you say coz otherwise people no longer stay Votes: 0

In any language it is a struggle to make a sentence say exactly what you mean. Votes: 0

What the elements are to chemistry, what the sounds are to music, are words to language. Votes: 0

What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning. Votes: 0

Design is just language and the real issue is what you use that language to do. Votes: 0

Amazing what the British do with language; the nuances of politeness. The world's great diplomats, surely. Votes: 0

What is love at first sight but a proof of the powerful but silent language of physiognomy? Votes: 0

The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it. Votes: 0

We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style. Votes: 0

The nature of language may determine what most people say, but I always speak my own meaning. Votes: 0

It must be powerful language if you canna make oout what the heel it's goin' on aboot! Votes: 0

The basic agreement between human beings, indeed what makes them human and makes them social, is language. Votes: 0

Our language needs endless synonyms for beautiful; the eyes could see what the tongue cannot possibly describe. Votes: 0

To defend what we love we need a particularizing language, for we love what we particularly know. Votes: 0

What is lofty can be said in any language. What is mean should be said in none. Votes: 0

What other creature, besides the lion, the tiger, and the whale, can answer Creation in its own language? Votes: 0

At the roots, people are still people. That's why Shakespeare is so popular no matter what the language. Votes: 0

We're all brothers and sisters. It doesn't matter what language you speak or what color your skin is. Votes: 0

An author arrives at a good style when his language performs what is required of it without shyness. Votes: 0

My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldnt be able to say anything. Votes: 0

I love performing in front of people, no matter where they come from or what language they speak. Votes: 0

What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things. Votes: 0

It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought. Votes: 0

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us. Votes: 0

Language has not the power to speak what love indites: The soul lies buried in the ink that writes. Votes: 0

In design man becomes what he is. Animals have language and perception as well, but they do not design. Votes: 0

What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak. Votes: 0

What I loved about it was language-wise it wasn't that finely-tuned-perfect-insult-for-the-perfect-situation that sometimes we try and do on Veep. Votes: 0

When speech is divorced from speaker and word from meaning, what is left is just ritual, language as ritual. Votes: 0

The four most important words in the English language are, "What do you think?" Listen to your people and learn. Votes: 0

I have good pronunciation no matter what language I speak. Maybe it's because my specialties are rapping and imitating others Votes: 0

Music is enough of an expression that it doesn't really matter what the words are or what language it's in. Votes: 0

Foreign-language books are sometimes more beautiful when you can't tell what's being said. It's like you ruin it by reading. Votes: 0

English is the perfect language for preachers because it allows you to talk until you think of what to say. Votes: 0

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is the language I don't understand. Votes: 0

All the best bands have a language, and what they say within that language makes it is what it is. Votes: 0

What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. Votes: 0

I don't know what the language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called Fortran. Votes: 0

His heart is kind and those big hands are soft. He speaks a language that can change what I believe. Votes: 0

I can't tell a story in the white man's language, so I say what I want to say with my paintings. Votes: 0

What night gave Rafael was a formlessness in which everything had a purpose. As if darkness had a hidden musical language. Votes: 0

What must the English and French think of the language of our philosophers when we Germans do not understand it ourselves? Votes: 0

I think photography is a universal language as far as storytelling goes, and I think that's what it's most successful at. Votes: 0

Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do. Votes: 0

Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and dead. Votes: 0

I’d thought I knew what beauty was in women; but she’d surpassed all the language I had for it. Votes: 0

What's exciting about theatre is observing human behaviour. You're constantly making judgments about body language, the physical, the emotional, the intellectual. Votes: 0

When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop. Votes: 0

To me, music is entertainment - what else can it be? In fact, it's the only language I know of that's universal. Votes: 0

Chinese language tends to be quick, economical. To know what people are saying, you always need to know what the context is. Votes: 0

If (early humans) weren't using and refining language I would like to know what they were doing with their autocatalytically increasing brains. Votes: 0

Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth. Votes: 0

Language is like drinking from one's own reflection in still water. We only take from it what we are at the time. Votes: 0

... explore the idea of what the language that women speak would really be like if no one were there to correct them... Votes: 0

The problems of inventing a new language are staggering. But what else can one do if one needs to express one's feeling precisely? Votes: 0

This is what language does: organize the world into manageable, and in some sense artificial, units that can then be inhabited and manipulated. Votes: 0

Sebastian sighed an exaggerated sigh and swung the door shut. Clary stared at Jace. "What the f-" "Language, Fray." Jace's eyes danced. "Relax. Votes: 0

And what is the very essence of poetry if it is not this 'metaphorical language'-this marking of the before unapprehended relations of things? Votes: 0

A new language requires a new technique. If what you're saying doesn't require a new language, then what you're saying probably isn't new. Votes: 0

Notes and chords have become my second language and, more often than not, that vocabulary expresses what I feel when language fails me. Votes: 0

Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another. Votes: 0

Precision about language can be really, really annoying. It can make you miss the point of what the other person is saying altogether. Votes: 0

What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today when human contacts go so fast. Fashion is instant language. Votes: 0

What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today, when human contacts are so quick. Fashion is instant language. Votes: 0

I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry. Votes: 0

But what am I? An infant crying in the night: An infant crying for the light: And with no language but a cry. Votes: 0

What I think is going on is that probably language was entertainment long before it was meaning. It's a kind of tuneless singing. Votes: 0

The love of our own language, what is it, in fact, but the love of our country expressing itself in one particular direction? Votes: 0

What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man. Votes: 0

History. Language. Passion. Custom. All these things determine what men say, think, and do. These are the hidden puppet-strings from which all men hang. Votes: 0

The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax Votes: 0

I still have an accent. But when I return to Prague, I speak the language yet do not know what they are talking about. Votes: 0

What is it that really makes us, us? It's our collective intelligence. It's our ability to write things down, our language and our consciousness. Votes: 0

What separates or unites people is not their language, their laws, their customs, their principles, but the way they hold their knife and fork. Votes: 0

That is what literature offers"”a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isn't a hiding place. It is a finding place. Votes: 0

Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche parked outside? Votes: 0

There is an interesting resemblance in the speeches of dictators, no matter what country they may hail from or what language they may speak. Votes: 0

Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn't mean anything else. Votes: 0

What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man." Votes: 0

The world needs more Edwin Morgans, people who can take the language and swing it round their heads and don't care what you think. Votes: 0

One of the great skills in using any language is knowing what not to use, what not to say. There's that simplicity thing again. Votes: 0

Comedy is something that we can all share, no matter what language we speak or our background, it has the power to unite us all. Votes: 0

What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into concepts... Votes: 0

What you wear represents you to the world, especially now, when communication between people is so fast. Fashion is a universal language that everyone understands. Votes: 0

The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions. Votes: 0

Two of the saddest words in the English language are, 'What party?' And L.A. is the 'What party?' capital of the world. Votes: 0

For me, language is something that I've always loved. When I read, that's what I look for. When I write, that's what I strive for. Votes: 0

We need language to tell us who we are, how we feel, what we're capable of- to explain the pains and glory of our existence. Votes: 0

Feeling is the language of the soul. If you want to know what's true for you about something, look to how you're feeling about it. Votes: 0

I think music is what language once aspired to be. Music allows us to face God on our own terms because it reaches beyond life. Votes: 0

Prune what is turgid, elevate what is commonplace, arrange what is disorderly, introduce rhythm where the language is harsh, modify where it is too absolute. Votes: 0

Music is the language of some other state, born of memory. For what can wake the soul's strong instinct of some other world like music? Votes: 0

Is there no room for art in the spoken language? What is the use of creating an unnatural language to the exclusion of the natural one? Votes: 0

I was always getting run-down from jet lag and being in strange towns where I didn't speak the language or know what the food was like. Votes: 0

I'm a passionate Welshman. I have a culinary relationship with language: I taste what I say because I have two languages, and each informs the other. Votes: 0

Even trained for years as they all had been in precision of language, what words could you use which would give another the experience of sunshine? Votes: 0

What you hear depends on how you focus your ear. We're not talking about inventing a new language, but rather inventing new perceptions of existing languages. Votes: 0

The object of poetic activity is essentially language: whatever his beliefs and convictions, the poet is more concerned with words than with what these words designate. Votes: 0

Faith is the physical description of God. That's what He is. It's the only word we have in our language to accurately describe His physical form. Votes: 0

The presentation of hard core pornography, brutality and shocking language, from what I hear, is leaving the public jaded and tired of this kind of film. Votes: 0

What we need are poems that interrogate the world of pronouns, open up possibilities of language and life; forms of politics that support and encourage self-affirmation. Votes: 0

What the eye sees is a synthesis of who you are and all you have learned. This is what I would call the language of photography. Votes: 0

What else is the power of melody but the power of feeling? Music is the language of feeling; melody is audible feeling - feeling communicating itself. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

What if it were true that nature speaks in signs and that the secret to understanding its language consists in noticing similarities in shape or in form? Votes: 0

What I liked about Greece was [...] the impressive force of the language itself, unconfined by dictionaries, spoken in the streets, in cafés and in the country. Votes: 0

I don't like jokes in speeches. I do like wit and humor. A joke is to humor what pornography is to erotic language in a good novel. Votes: 0

If someone tried to assimilate you for years, if your language was forbidden, if the names of your hometown were changed, what would do you but revolt. Votes: 0

People can stand around and share movement with each other, whether it's professional or not. That's how it grows. That's what dance does. It's its own language. Votes: 0

Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them. Votes: 0

When a Japanese manufacturer was asked by his North American counterpart, What is the best language in which to do business?" the man responded: "My customer's language Votes: 0

Speaking more than one language and living in a multicultural family and environment did not seem like anything but what it was: the world I lived in. Votes: 0

This unique strategy that the advanced primates created, the strategy of using language to bind time, is what the process we call 'civilization' has been all about. Votes: 0

I thought that subtitles are boring because they're there generally to serve us with information to make you understand what people are saying in a different language. Votes: 0

In 2005, the Global Language Monitor-a nonprofit organization that does exactly what its name suggests-issued a tongue-in-cheek list of the year's most politically correct words and phrases. Top Votes: 0

Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children. Votes: 0

I'm trying always to leave out what I think is extraneous. And to find what I think is the most wonderful language to make a beautiful sentence. Votes: 0

Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is. Votes: 0

Writers are not mere copyists of language; they are polishers, embellishers, perfecters. They spend hours getting the timing right so that what they write sounds completely unrehearsed. Votes: 0

I don't yet know what style will be required for my next novel, but my sense is that each book will involve a new relationship to language. Votes: 0

Let us distinguish between acting intentionally and acting deliberately or on purpose, as far as this can be done by attending to what language can teach us. Votes: 0

I tend more towards what some people call literary science fiction, but what I mean by that is that it is full of interesting language, experimentation, and ideas. Votes: 0

Man created language to be understood. It should be normal to understand what people convey to us. Fear, ulterior motives, and closed mindedness are the enemies of understanding. Votes: 0

The universe and the law of attraction speak a language that knows no words, only discerning your intent through sacrifice and what you are willing to give up. Votes: 0

We can move no faster than the evolution of our language, and this is certainly part of what the psychedelics are about: they force the evolution of language. Votes: 0

What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about a plight that must be understood. Votes: 0

I keep thinking, we teach children to use language to solve their disputes. We teach them not to hit and fight and bite. Then look what adults do! Votes: 0

Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are. By using bad language, we diminish the divine spark within us that defines our humanity. Votes: 0

Death stands above me, whispering low I know not what into my ear; Of his strange language all I know Is, there is not a word of fear. Votes: 0

The media must be used effectively to reach the masses. You have to find a new language in which to address the people and demonstrate what is possible. Votes: 0

Reason" in language - oh, what an old deceptive female she is! I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar. Votes: 0

I had no idea what they were saying in Italian as a child, they spoke too quickly on the radio. But I realized that language was very funny. Votes: 0

Ubuntu is very difficult to render into a Western language... It is to say, 'My humanity is caught up, is inextricably bound up, in what is yours.' Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

Nature alone can speak to our intelligence an imperishable language, never changing, because it remains within the bounds of eternal truth and of what is absolutely noble and beautiful. Votes: 0

Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around. Votes: 0

How often a mother initiates a conversation with her child is not predictive of the language outcomes - what matters is, if the infant initiates, whether the mom responds. Votes: 0

If you have a craftsman's command of the language and basic writing techniques you'll be able to write - as long as you know what you want to say Votes: 0

I think that's what Toni Morrison and Alice Walker understand, the secret language of women. That it's not a secret at all; men just don't know how to listen. Votes: 0

Reality is beyond speech and thought. Only that which can be expressed in words is being said. But what cannot be put into language is indeed That which IS. Votes: 0

If you have a craftsman's command of the language and basic writing techniques you'll be able to write - as long as you know what you want to say. Votes: 0

What is unusual about Earth is that language, literally, has become alive. It has infested matter. It is replicating and defining and building itself. And it is in us. Votes: 0

What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others. Votes: 0

Poetry has its own laws speaking for the life of the planet. It is a language that wants to bring back together what the other words have torn apart. Votes: 0

Chess is like a language, the top players are very fluent at it. Talent can be developed scientifically but you have to find first what you are good at. Votes: 0

Language achieves soul only when it's applied as a tool, used by those who imbue it with what they have had the courage and honesty to perceive and feel. Votes: 0

That was the hard thing about grief, and the grieving. They spoke another language, and the words we knew always fell short of what we wanted them to say. Votes: 0

We understand … that what constitutes the dignity of a craft is that it creates a fellowship, that it binds men together and fashions for them a common language. Votes: 0

Comedy Central is what these young people are viewing. The network speaks to their audience, which is saying, 'Give me fast jokes. Give me party stories and party language.' Votes: 0

Guess who's running for president? Jeb Bush. Jeb was governor of Florida and he speaks fluent Spanish, which raises the question: What language did his brother speak? What was that? Votes: 0

I always squirm when I read what's called 'creative nonfiction,' and the writer is lobbing gobs of emotion and language at the world, hoping some of it will stick. Votes: 0

At times it does not really matter what language you are speaking, especially when you are emotional and try to reach other hearts. To transcend emotion, silence is the best language. Votes: 0

Doesn't matter what language you speak or what clothes you wear. Some things don't change. Families. Friends. Lovers. They're the same in every city in every country in every continent of the world. Votes: 0

O admirable necessity! O powerful action! What mind can penetrate your nature? What language can express this marvel? None, to be sure. This is where human discourse turns toward the contemplation of the divine. Votes: 0

To talk about paintings is not only difficult but perhaps pointless too. You can only express in words what words are capable of expressing-- what language can communicate. Painting has nothing to do with that. Votes: 0