True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways that writers used to aspire to.
We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.
Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language.
The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
The way the educational system in Russia works is studying a foreign language is part of the program, so by the time you get to the age of 10, you pick up another language. I speak a bit of Russian, a bit of English, a bit of Spanish a bit of French.
The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls.
If you're going to learn a new language, you can't try to be perfect. You'll stop yourself from talking. You just have to let go.
I want to be able to speak every language. If I could have any talent and I get to choose it, and be naturally gifted and speak every language. It's not going to happen, but it sure would be nice. It's a good wish.
We have a house in Umbria that we bought just before we went to America. That meant we couldn't go there as often as we thought, but now we're back, we're going to start using it more. I love the light, the countryside, the language and the fact that children are accepted everywhere. The Italians get passionate about everything, too.
Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting.
I consider myself a pretty good conversationalist, but you wind up being downgraded to idiot status when you don't speak the language!
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
But those two plays left me on fresh terms with language. I didn't always have to speak in my own voice.
Whitney wanted to eradicate the idea that in the case of a language we are dealing with a natural faculty; in fact, social institutions stand opposed to natural institutions.
Second-generation Hispanics marry non-Hispanics at a higher rate than second-generation Irish or Italians. Second-generation Hispanics' English language capability rates are higher than previous immigrant groups'.
The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end.
Music is the soul of language.
If you're a vegan fast food joint in L.A., you just don't speak the same language as the heartland.
If, in the schools, the classical language would no longer be taught, whom could we entrust with the writing of memorials, documents, letters and notes in the public service? How could we possibly assign important offices and heavy responsibilities to someone who cannot even write fluently?
Certain things were deemed to be offensive. It was usually bad language.
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.'
Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside!
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.
I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
True creativity often starts where language ends.
'Ulysses' is the greatest anti-racist text in the English language, and it challenges right from the beginning the vicious racism which lies near the foundations of the Irish Free State and of the Irish republic.
I love the English language, the colors of it, the many, many nuances, the different influences. I find German stilted, in a way, by comparison.
You pay your money, you take your choice. I get the audience my language attracts and I lose the ones it repels.
I believe that laughter is a language of God and that we can all live happily ever laughter.
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.
I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery.
I can't recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open - any discussion on the matter tended to mention languages whose inventors tried to keep tight control, and consequent ill fate.
I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically, and most of the time actors can find wonderful clues about character in the rhythm and cadence of the language used.
Yes, living voices in a living language, so it seemed to us.
