Two of the saddest words in the English language are, 'What party?' And L.A. is the 'What party?' capital of the world.
There are infinite shadings of light and shadows and colors... it's an extraordinarily subtle language. Figuring out how to speak that language is a lifetime job.
Poetry is the way that we transcend language through language. And thus our freedom lies in the poetry of all things
I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to intrigue and hook a reader.
It's a difficult competition against silence, because silence is a perfect language, the only language which says with no words.
The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise?
Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering.
The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.
Terence Fletcher: There are no two words in the English language more harmful than "good job".
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.
A marvellous power of expression over language often distinguishes genius; but Shakespeare in his phrases seems independent of the bonds of language as of the bonds of metre.
Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.
When you're looking at small languages, the population of speakers is so small that there might not be people with the expertise in science or agronomy to write optimal planting strategies for maize in the local language.
It's really sad for me that in the United States the Latino community is losing its culture and language, especially among kids born here - a lot of them can't even speak our language.
The word 'right' should be excluded from political language, as the word 'cause' from the language of philosophy.
Some people use language as a mask. And some want to create designed language that appears to reveal them but does not.
When a film is created, it is created in a language, which is not only about words, but also the way that very language encodes our perception of the world, our understanding of it.
People who work in specialized fields seem to have their own language. Practitioners develop a shorthand to communicate among themselves. The jargon can almost sound like a foreign language.
Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.
I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhythms of the English language and the mannerisms of the English speech seems to work effortlessly with William Shakespeare, but when Americans do it, something s...
If the president is going to use so much language of theology and the Bible, then let's use that language for a serious discussion about the war in Iraq. And that was never done.
