Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and it's reflected in his writings.
The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.
It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning.
I love to laugh, it's my main thing. I love to abuse the English language.
So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to make films without words.
When language fails, violence becomes a language; I never had that feeling.
The language of understanding is not the words, but the silence. The language of love is not the promise, but the feelings.
The English language is a work in progress. Have fun with it.
Thinking about language, while thinking _in_ language, leads to puzzles and paradoxes.
Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks they can talk about language.
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.
Linguistic philosophers continue to argue that probably music is not a language, that is in the philosophical debate. Another point of view is to say that music is a very profound language.
Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.
I think cinema has this beautiful component. It's a universal language.
It is a curiously moving experience, to hear 350 sailors uttering the words "Oh shit!" in eleven different languages.
So he came to realize that learning a language was perhaps the most profound thing a man could do. Not only did it require wrapping different sounds around the very movement of your soul, it involved learning things somehow already known, as though m...
Individuals who speak languages other than English, who speak patois as well as standard English, find it a necessary aspect of self-affirmation not to feel compelled to chose one voice over another, not to claim one as more authentic but rather to c...
But once an original book has been written-and no more than one or two appear in a century-men of letters imitate it, in other words, they copy it so that hundreds of thousands of books are published on exactly the same theme, with slightly different...
The English language [during the Elizabethan era] wasn't standardized. There were no official dictionaries. There was no cultural belief that words should always be spelled the same way. So people spelled things however they heard them or however mad...
I say to you all, once again -- in the light of Lord Voldemort's return, we are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided. Lord Voldemort's gift for spreading discord and enmity is very great. We can fight it only by showing an equal...
