When I do Gaelic music, I’ve learned about Gaelic culture; I’ve tried to learn the language. Whenever I do mouth music and there’s Gaelic speakers in the audience, and they come up and go, ‘Good job,’ I’m always like, ‘Phew.’
Everywhere I have gone in the world, even though we don’t speak the same language, food is the same language.
When we started on ‘Power,’ I was committed to respecting the differences among Spanish dialects: Dominican, Nuyorican, Mexican, etc. I wanted the language our characters spoke to be as specific as possible, to reflect New York as it is.
In every language you can imagine, I’ve had people say ‘Appetite For Destruction’ is the soundtrack to their lives. I don’t think you could say something nicer to an entertainer or performer – can’t get more respectful.
As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody’s individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.
The English Bible – a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.
Actually, my correspondent’s language is better than mine. He can put his sentiment into words.
I lived in Paris for two years with my family. I would roam the streets of Paris during the day for a few hours in the subway, on the streets, and I listened to the French language, and I got a sense of the rhythm and the melody of the language.
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
I don’t know the rules of grammar… If you’re trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language, the language they use every day, the language in which they think. We try to write in the vernacular.
To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing.
People need realness, reality. People can sense when someone is being pretentious or fake. It’s because you feel it; you see it in someone’s body language.
When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.
War is what happens when language fails.
The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing.
When you act, you want to emote and think in that language. I don’t enjoy the process of doing a film in a language I am not good with.
The alt-right for me is primarily a cultural reaction to the nannying and language policing and authoritarianism of the progressive left – the stranglehold that it has on culture.
I took some classes in sign language when I was in my early teens because I was told that I would be completely deaf very early. But I never really wanted to learn.
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.
English is my first language, but when I started shooting for ‘Definition of Fear,’ I actually had trouble with my lines! It was so weird, because I never have trouble with my lines in Hindi!
In the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it. Not a single day and not a single night after it. And above all, not a single existence, not anyone’s existence in this world.
It’s very difficult to find even one or two criteria that you will find in every Internet situation, and the reason is that the technology constrains language in individual ways.
Americans can pretty much sing anything, whereas foreign singers are often limited in style, language, even composer.
All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French.
Java the language is almost irrelevant. It’s the design of the Java Virtual Machine. And I’ve seen compilers for ML, compilers for Scheme, compilers for Ada, and they all work. Not many people use them, but it doesn’t matter: they all work.
There is abundant science out there that connects mercury exposure in vaccines to not only autism, but to ASD, to SIDS, to ADD, ADHD, language tics – which is like Tourette Syndrome – OCD, asthma, food allergies, and diabetes.
The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it – what is said.
Watch how you communicate with a woman. Because you’re always communicating, even when you’re not talking – with your body language, your facial expressions, your eyes.
Shakespeare language is fantastic, and to be honest, you don’t need to do anything to Shakespeare.
The death of a language. The word has the same kind of reluctant resonance as it has when we talk about the death of a person. And indeed, that’s how it should be. For that’s how it is. A language dies only when the last person who speaks it dies.
Painting is a language of its own. You cannot interpret one form of expression with another form of expression.
I like to say I sit alone in my room, and I fight the language. I am wildly obsessive. I can’t let something go if I think it’s wrong.
What I take from writers I like is their economy – the ability to use language to very effective ends.
When I was younger, I used to hate Germany. I hated the country, the people, the language, the culture, everything! But over the years I’ve grown to really appreciate the German people.
Harmony is an obscure and difficult musical science, but most difficult to those who are not acquainted with the Greek language; because it is necessary to use many Greek words to which there are none corresponding in Latin.
Dream Home’ is uncomplicated with everyday language that resonates with homeowners. We also included hundreds of never-before-seen images.
I think the first little jolt I got was reading Gerard Manley Hopkins – I liked other poems… but Hopkins was kind of electric for me – he changed the rules with speech, and the whole intensity of the language was there and so on.
Hindi has never been a trouble. In fact, Hindi is the only language I can speak and write apart from Malayalam and English.
Chess demolishes differences. It’s a language of different generations.
For each movie that I do, I like to find a specific language to tell the specific story.
My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
I think it would be cool if you were writing a ransom note on your computer, if the paper clip popped up and said, ‘Looks like you’re writing a ransom note. Need help? You should use more forceful language, you’ll get more money.’
Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
You stand with the least likely to succeed until success is succeeded by something more valuable: kinship. You stand with the belligerent, the surly and the badly behaved until bad behavior is recognized for the language it is: the vocabulary of the deeply wounded and of those whose burdens are more than they can bear.
Hitting someone with a shoe is in principle anti-Dalit. If you investigate stories about hitting someone with a shoe, you will find that this sort of language was used only by those who were upper-caste.
In legal language, a covenant generally denotes an agreement between two or more parties. But in a religious context, a covenant is much more significant. It is a sacred promise with God. He fixes the terms.
Peru is a country where more than half the people would emigrate if given the chance. That’s half the population that is willing to abandon everything they know for the uncertainty of a life in a foreign land, in another language.
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
If two-three films of mine release at the same time and if all of them feel like they are from the same lyricist then something is not quite right. The language of all has to be different if they are different stories.
What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.
I don’t know if English is the only language where some expressions only and solely mean the opposite of what they say but we do have an awful lot of them.
The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.
We don’t need more divisive language or programs and policies that are going to tear the fabric of the nation apart.
Shakespeare’s taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head.
Political chaos is connected with the decay of language… one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.
A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.
