So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations. – Thomas Lynch
And, indeed, though they differ concerning other things, yet all agree in this: that they think there is one Supreme Being that made and governs the world, whom they call, in the language of their country, Mithras. – Thomas More
Afrikaans is my first language, although you would never know, as my English accent has more of an American-British thing going on from all my years of travelling. – Tanit Phoenix
It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You also have problems, because on bad days you don’t trust yourself, either in your first or your second language, and so you feel like a complete halfwit. – W. G. Sebald
Shakespeare language is fantastic, and to be honest, you don’t need to do anything to Shakespeare. – Sam Heughan
I avoid all the language and nudity and violence and everything. I have enough of that at home. – Tim Conway
No matter what your cultural sophistication or what language you speak, everyone can understand images. – Tibor Kalman
I’m very interested in language because it reflects our obsessions and ways of conceptualising the world. – Steven Pinker
Obviously we had to study Shakespeare at school, but to be honest, I was not a fan. I found the language very difficult, and I didn’t enjoy watching it or studying it. I auditioned five times for the Royal Shakespeare Company early on in my career, and I didn’t even get past the first rounds. – Samuel Barnett
I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised. – Sting
If I were assigned poems I suppose I’d write more of them but it is entirely voluntary and for the most part ignored in the market sense of the word so the language to me is most intimate, most important, most sublime and most satisfying when it gets done. – Thomas Lynch
I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is. – Terry Pratchett
When language was not transcendental enough to complete the meaning of a revelation, symbols were relied upon for heavenly teaching, and familiar images, chosen from the known, were made to mirror the unknown spiritual truth. – William H. Hunt
Poems are a form of music, and language just happens to be our instrument – language and breath. – Terrance Hayes
It’s kind of a language I’ve developed over time that’s basically breaking up the face into components and planes. Inside each plane, I draw gradation marks, and when planes come together, they form sinews, a hairlike weave that’s like a landscape of the face. – Toyin Odutola
God has stated in clear and concise language how He created the universe and we ought not to doubt His Word. – Walter Lang
In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English. – Victor Hugo
Just because I’m in favor of gay rights doesn’t mean that I’m gay or doesn’t mean I’m some kind of ‘sissy’ or something. That’s the language that you hear in locker rooms. – Scott Fujita
It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures. – Vincent Van Gogh
I was born in Brooklyn and raised in Pittsburgh. I’ve never been to Iran, I don’t speak the language, and, probably most important of all, my Iranian father left home when I was nine months old. That’s the extent of my connection to Iran. – Said Sayrafiezadeh
Language pedants hew to an oral tradition of shibboleths that have no basis in logic or style, that have been defied by great writers for centuries, and that have been disavowed by every thoughtful usage manual. – Steven Pinker
I’ve done two remakes, ‘Rowdy Rathore’ and ‘Son of Sardaar,’ and I see nothing wrong with it. The originals were in a language that not everyone understands, so when you’re making it in another language, you can reach a much wider audience. That’s how I look at it. – Sonakshi Sinha