Language comes first. It’s not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven’t got language, you can’t be conscious.
I had zero connection to Bollywood or movies when I started out. I worked in theatre for eight years where luckily Makarand Deshpande mentored me, helped me to improve my body language and voice modulation.
If Kubrick made me love forever the film language, Scorsese made me love actors. And ‘Raging Bull’ is my favorite male performance ever.
What is your identity, and how do you know who you are if you don’t have language?
Comedy is a universal language. I grew up watching Nagesh, Surilirajan, Thenga Srinivasan and S.V. Shekhar’s comedies. And, of course, Charlie Chaplin! These artists are so blessed: they can make other people happy.
Intimidation is an unusual animal: it’s a lot about body language and understanding the human psyche. Knowing that usually a direct stare will crush most human souls, and that’s just the basic gist of it… The soul-crushing stare, the fatherly disappointment, mixed with a little bit of hate and rage – you’re on your way.
The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in the language or design of the Constitution.
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!
For me, Malayalam is a difficult language. It has got a lot of tongue-twisting words.
Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification.
I got my dog back, in African-American language, your dog means your passion, your fire.
Music, in its true essence, has got no language. You don’t listen to anybody because he is black or white or because he belongs to a particular geographical region. You listen to him because you like what he does.
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
One of the first major programming projects that I worked on when I was growing up in Ireland, back just coding by myself, was a programming language. Then I spent a bunch of time working on a new web framer. Just back-end things to make it easier to go in and build things on top of, do other development.
When language fails, violence becomes a language; I never had that feeling.
The scripting language in Bitcoin is important because it is what makes Bitcoin ‘programmable money’. Within each Bitcoin transaction is the ability to write a little program.
Possible ideas and thoughts are vast in number. A distinct word for every distinct idea and thought would require a vast vocabulary. The problem in language is to express many ideas and thoughts with comparatively few words.
We had common interests in the beauty of the French language. We both had a tremendous love of jazz. We shared dreams of getting married and having a family, living in the country, leading an idyllic life.
I’ve always loved rhyming. I love language.
There was an exhibition in Munich in 1937, ‘Degenerate Art,’ which included work by Klee, Kandinsky, Beckmann and many others. The work was called ‘sick’ and put in the trash heap. The sentiments expressed toward contemporary art by Jesse Helms, Pat Robertson and Mayor Giuliani recall the language used by the Nazis.
Yankees don’t understand that the Southern way of talking is a language of nuance. What we can do in the South is we can take a word and change it just a little bit and make it mean something altogether different.
The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism.
As thy days, so shall thy strength be which, in modern language, may be translated as thy thoughts so shall thy life be.
Many poets in Iran have learned to speak almost a secret language, where political issues are talked about in allegorical ways.
People in Finland have also adopted me because of my dad, and that’s great, but it’s the one language I can’t speak.
I believe that laughter is a language of God and that we can all live happily ever laughter.
Whenever one reads of the determination of the species, or opens a book on natural science and history, in whatever language, one inevitably comes across the name of Linne.
Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has.
Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.
The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish.
Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.
I never felt any attraction towards violence. I never tried to express myself through violence. Violence is a language.
I could go out and talk about President Clinton… or some issue, but people will be on either side. But everyone eats. It’s the international language, like Esperanto.
Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
I believe in a visual language that should be as strong as the written word.
My mother tongue is Punjabi, but my first language is Urdu, which was the case with the people in undivided Punjab.
But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.
My love of reading and the English language is something given to me by my parents, and I’ve passed it on to my children.
A different language is a different vision of life.
Reading or written language is a cultural invention that necessitated totally new connections among structures in the human brain underlying language, perception, cognition, and, over time, our emotions.
Our approach was very simple. It was about creating a universal language. A show that will be attractive toward every people coming from all over the world. And that was a big thing.
Dutch is our first language. When you talk to older people, you speak Dutch. It’s more respectful. The local language, you talk with your friends. You don’t talk to your parents like that with the local slang.
I’ve traveled around the world, and what’s so revealing is that, despite the differences in culture, politics, language, how people dress, there is a universal feeling that we all want the same thing. We deeply want to be respected and appreciated for our differences.
Music is a language in itself and the songs have their own soul, every song has its soul.
Why, der language down dar in de far South is jus’ as different from ours in Maryland, as you can think. Dey laughed when dey heard me talk, an’ I could not understand ‘dem, no how.
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.
It is of no use to commit whole pages to memory, merely to recite them once without hesitation; you must think of the meaning more than the words – of the ideas more than the language.
Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
I think U.S. and Chinese businesses need a common language and dialogue.
A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs.
Music is the language of the heart, and conservatives always screw it up.
The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second.
Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
Epic started out with scripting languages in the first generation of the Unreal engine in 1998. I wrote that. There’s a place in my heart that comes along with the simplicity of programming in a scripting language.
I know Spanish pretty well. I’m half-Puerto Rican – my mom is from Puerto Rico – so I have a lot of family there, and my mom’s first language is Spanish. But growing up in the States, and with my dad being from the States, I’m kind of just like this white kid.
I read the Bible to myself; I’ll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.
Language makes infinite use of finite media.
About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.
