I’m trying to get into the rhythm of the birds. Obviously it’s a different language and I don’t quite understand it but they’re not talking gibberish, that lot. – Liam Gallagher The rocker tries to master birdsong’s complexities during coronavirus lockdown.
It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. – George Orwell 1984. Part 1, Chapter 5. Language specialist Syme to Wilson on how the Party is going to destroy the language and replace Oldspeak (Standard English) with Newspeak. It will be used to control the minds of the citizens.
I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of content in the world. Language content, musical content, spatial content, numerical content, etc. – Howard Gardner
Sometimes I try to improve the language, the lines, or the delivery, but I don’t ad-lib because I think that makes it really hard for everybody else involved. – Harrison Ford
God has to speak to each person in their own language, in their own idioms. Take Spanish, Chinese. You can express the same thought, but to different people you have to use a different language. It’s the same in religion. – Huston Smith
A text conversation is a short exchange of often grossly truncated language that corresponds to a thought made all the more shallow by the process. – Henry Rollins
The language has got to be fully alive – I can’t bear dull, flaccid writing myself and I don’t see why any reader should put up with it. – Helen Dunmore
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. – Hans Haacke
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. – Guy Laliberte
Why on earth do we want closer connection with England? We have little in common with English people except our language. We are fast becoming an entirely different people. – Henry Lawson
I learned to interpret the ancient pictograph codices and read Nahuatl, the Aztec language. – Gary Jennings
I’m shy, but sometimes my voice is so clear and strong. Your tongue moves, and the Arabic language is so beautiful. – Hakeem Olajuwon
I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really – perhaps because I’m good at languages – of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language. – Harry Mathews
Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud out, spread into leaves, and become big branches, proliferating. – Gilbert Highet
I’d defend the right for any novelist to experiment with form or language, but if people don’t take to it, don’t react by making out that they are thick. – Graham Joyce
The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it. – Hans-Georg Gadamer
On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people. – Hu Shih
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. – Howard Schultz
Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up. – Herb Ritts
Music is essentially an emotional language, so you want to feel something from the relationships and build music based on those feelings. – Howard Shore
Women are better at reading body language everywhere in the world. As a matter of fact, it’s associated with the female hormone estrogen. Women are better at figuring out of tone of voice, reading your face and posture and gesture. – Helen Fisher
I want to create a kind of new monster language for kids to play with, pick up, and incorporate into their own vocabularies. – Harry Knowles
Communism possesses a language which every people can understand – its elements are hunger, envy, and death. – Heinrich Heine
It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What is language? Where does it come from, how does it work, what does it do? – Hanif Kureishi