Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I'd like to point out to people the divine in a musical language that transcends words. I want to speak to their souls.
And of course the word love has many shades of meaning, as do many, many of the words in our living, breathing language
Two of the saddest words in the English language are, 'What party?' And L.A. is the 'What party?' capital of the world.
Even before I started photography, I began to see that there was a disjunction between available languages and reality.
The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood.
Silence is no weakness of language. It is, on the contrary, its strength. It is the weakness of words not to know this.
Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop.
John Paul II spoke to the commoner and to the king, to the tyrant and to the democrat in that same language of freedom.
Most human beings know only the language of exploitation. Due to their selfishness, they are unable to consider others.
Those who use language and have nothing but language to express themselves live in a cage that cannot feel comfortable.
Our exclusive dependence on rational thought and language has obscured our natural ability to sense the flow of energy.
The traditional statement about language is that it is in itself living, and that writing is the dead part of language.
She was fluent in four languages and yet her fists against the rusted hood were the fullest articulation of her defeat.
I do swear a lot, but the advantage is that having played abroad, I can choose a different language from the referee's.
Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.
In my experience, writing a novel tends to create its own structure, its own demands, its own language, its own ending.
The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
I write on a visual canvas, 'seeing' a scene in my thoughts before translating it into language, so I'm a visual junkie.
Language is an art, like brewing or baking.... It certainly is not a true instinct, for every language has to be learnt.
A great artist can really enter the logic of any particular mazurka and fully understand the language of Chopin's music.
Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.
Music transcends language. BTS communicates with our fans by staying true to ourselves and believing in music every day.
Language is one of the thin walls humanity has built up over centuries against its own bestial and destructive impulses.
Each language has its own temperament; some languages make a poem more dramatic or sad, and others make it more playful.
One should connect language learning with either work or leisure. And not at the expense of them but to supplement them.
Computer languages of the future will be more concerned with goals and less with procedures specified by the programmer.
When we talk mathematics, we may be discussing a secondary language built on the primary language of the nervous system.
With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.
English is like music. The English language is really fit for singing. The notes match the feelings, and it makes sense.
When you speak a new language you must see if you can translate all of the poetry of your old language into the new one.
I no longer have a borrowed soul. I no longer have borrowed thoughts or ideas. I no longer speak in a borrowed language.
I can't relate to lazy people. We don't speak the same language. I don't understand you. I don't want to understand you.
The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
that your power of command with simple language was one of the magnificent things of our century. (from the poem: result)
The choosing among words is made by every user of the language, and not exclusively by professional speakers and writers.
When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language.
Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.
We share plates [with Jordan Peele], and we also very often will sit in the corner and kind of speak in our own language.
I am annoyed by individuals who are embarrassed by pauses in a conversation. To me, every conversational pause refreshes.
Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.
Some people are really into being music-minded and knowing all their scales and how to read music and speak the language.
SQL, Lisp, and Haskell are the only programming languages that I've seen where one spends more time thinking than typing.
To transform experience and thought into language and narrative - that is beautiful even if that beauty is in brokenness.
Let us learn from the English rulers the simple fact that the oppressors are blind to the enormity of their own misdeeds.
The affectation of some late authors to introduce and multiply cant words is the most ruinous corruption in any language.
George Orwell once blamed the demise of the English language on politics. It's quite possible he never read a prospectus.
The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule.
When it comes to tyrants, dictators and terrorists, strength and the threat of force is the only language they understand.
What must the English and French think of the language of our philosophers when we Germans do not understand it ourselves?
My favorite three words in the English language are: ’I don’t know’, because every time I say them, I learn something new.