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.
It doesn't matter if you're black, white, gay, straight, come from different countries, different language... every single person is significant and is meaningful.
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.
I went back to look for you. Not understanding the language of hello, I thought I’d speak it just the same.
Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved.
The gentle art of gastronomy is a friendly one. It hurdles the language barrier, makes friends among civilized people, and warms the heart.
The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness.
While some of my closest friends were jocks, it seemed that they spoke a different language with each other. Joining in their conversation was fraught with risk.
True Love never needs the Expression of Words, It Speaks the Language Blessed by God and when it speaks, Only Miracles Happen.
I think we can all agree that the official language of the United States should be Latin.
