We have our own language. Christianese... We don't say 'He's out of his mind,' no, we say 'That's our youth pastor.
Language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing, but a compromise- that which is common to you, me, and everybody.
What is unusual about Earth is that language, literally, has become alive. It has infested matter. It is replicating and defining and building itself. And it is in us.
Our world isn't made of earth, air and water or even molecules and atoms; our world is made of language.
Self-control is one mark of a mature person; it applies to control of language, physical treatment of others, and the appetites of the body.
Feelings or emotions are the universal language and are to be honored. They are the authentic expression of who you are at your deepest place.
Feelings or Emotions are the universal language and are to be honored. They are the authentic expression of who you are in your deepest place.
And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation.
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 surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.
I don't swear much; I've taken those words out of my vocabulary, and having kids, you have to have two sets of language!
Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier.
The Gaelic language itself depends very much on ear and rhythm, and when those who are thinking in Gaelic speak in English, they get the same rhythm.
Estelle Getty used the language of a truck driver, or a sailor. Bea Arthur didn't wear shoes. Bea Arthur was a comic genius. Her timing was extraordinary.
We recognised Urdu as the second official language and made it a medium of examination in all Bihar Public Service Commission tests.
In any area of the U.N. we... have to agree on certain language that can represent the same spirit, but that can be accepted by everyone.
She decided to free herself, dance into the wind, create a new language. And birds fluttered around her, writing “yes” in the sky.
Singing beautiful melodies is one thing, but to deliver the text so that the people understand it, even in a foreign language, has to be worked at very hard.
The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.
I think that’s what Toni Morrison and Alice Walker understand, the secret language of women. That it’s not a secret at all; men just don’t know how to listen.
I do not belong to a nation because I speak the same language as they do; I belong to them because I feel the same pain as they did.
