In grade school I was taught that the United States is a melting pot. People from all over the world come here for freedom and to pursue a better life. They arrive with next to nothing, work incredibly hard, learn a new language and new customs, and in a generation they become an integral part of our amazing nation.
All businessmen – how do they communicate? God knows. Sign language, probably.
Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.
Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.
DNA is a code of four letters; proteins are made up of amino acids which come in 20 forms. So the ribosome is a very clever machine that reads one language and operates in another.
I would like to reach out to the global audience; Music is beyond all the culture and language barriers.
Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
Language is a more recent technology. Your body language, your eyes, your energy will come through to your audience before you even start speaking.
A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.
Violence is the language of the unheard.
The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.
As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene.
I do find the sibling connection endlessly fascinating, as I do all family dynamics. I like how siblings seem to create their own parentless mini-civilization within a family, one that has its own laws, myths, language, humor, its own loyalties and treacheries.
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.
I had been learning Italian for years. I always loved Latin, but Italian is a living language; I’m writing in it now as well as reading it. It is so interesting delving further into language.
It’s difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than I should in terms of the usage of the English language.
Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.
Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
Music is its own language – if you don’t speak it, it’s hard to say what you’re trying to do.
Sometimes you can’t really control the language around you. All you can do is follow your voice and your path – dedicate yourself to stories that matter.
Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study of language.
Coffee is a language in itself.
If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls.
Rhetoric, which is the use of language to inform or persuade, is very important in shaping public opinion. We are very easily fooled by language and how it is used by others.
I have Spanish ancestry and, indeed, speak the language, up to a point.
A riot is the language of the unheard.
I’ve been alienating my public since I was 20 years old. When ‘American Buffalo’ came out on Broadway, people would storm out and say, ‘How dare he use that kind of language!’ Of course I’m alienating the public! That’s what they pay me for.
Sanskrit language and the subjects in Sanskrit are both vital alike.
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.
The language has changed. When I grew up and watched the campaigns of John Kennedy, even with Richard Nixon, there was a lot higher level of civility. Now we describe a disagreement as an attack.
Language is one component of the human cognitive capacity which happens to be fairly amenable to enquiry. So we know a good deal about that.
There is sometimes a feeling in crime fiction that good writing gets in the way of story. I have never felt that way. All you have is language. Why write beneath yourself? It’s an act of respect for the reader as much as yourself.
Besides Hindi and English, I can speak in Maithli, my native language, and in Bangla and Nepalese too. But I can just about make a smattering at Marathi.
One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word ‘I.’
Language itself changes slowly, but the Internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you notice them more quickly.
Abstract painting seeks to be a pure pictorial language, and thus attempts to escape the essential impurity of all languages: the recourse to signs or forms that have meanings shared by everyone.
Communism possesses a language which every people can understand – its elements are hunger, envy, and death.
A gloss is a total system of perception and language.
I learned Romanian very late, when I was fifteen, in town, and I wanted to learn it. I like the language very much.
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
Middle English is an exciting field – almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one turns detailed personal attention on to any little corner of it, the received notions and ideas seem to crumple up and fall to pieces – as far as language goes, at any rate.
My father is Cuban. Spanish was my first language, but I don’t speak it that much anymore because I had dyslexia, and in school they work with you only in English. But I’m proud to be Latina, and most people don’t know I am.
You should take notes whenever you hear interesting or original language.
Language’ is, I think, my favorite song that I’ve ever written.
For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.
Animals praise a good day, a good hunt. They praise rain if they’re thirsty. That’s prayer. They don’t live an unconscious life, they simply have no language to talk about these things. But they are grateful for the good things that come along.
It’s my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.
‘Rednecks’ always made me nervous to play, but I’m glad I wrote it and I continue to play it. It’s just that the language is so rough.
As an attorney, I could be rather flamboyant in court. I did not act as though I were a black man in a white man’s court, but as if everyone else – white and black – was a guest in my court. When trying a case, I often made sweeping gestures and used high-flown language.
I must stick with Chinese language films.
My first language is both English and Spanish. My mom was raised in Los Angeles, so with her we spoke English, but my father was born in Cuba, so with him we spoke Spanish.
Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society.
If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.
I think the dirtiest word in the English language is retirement. When you do that, you get old and you get sick and you die.
In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed it.
When we look at the specific effect of the Internet on language, languages asking the question, ‘Has English become a different language as a result of the Internet?’ the answer has to be no.
In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.
At the same time, new concepts and abstractions flow into the picture, taking up the task of describing the universe without reference to such time or space – abstractions for which our language lacks adequate terms.
There are infinite shadings of light and shadows and colors… it’s an extraordinarily subtle language. Figuring out how to speak that language is a lifetime job.
In animation, what’s wonderful is that when you start to work with multiple nationalities, the common language becomes a visual language rather than a spoken language, which blends beautifully with the art form.
Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there was a further acceleration of time and the rate of change.
Gujarati is a very sweet language and I have always used elements from Gujarati songs in my music.
