In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
See it all. See it fairly. Be truthful, be sensible and be careful with language. When nothing depends on man, everything depends on him.
What's exciting about theatre is observing human behaviour. You're constantly making judgments about body language, the physical, the emotional, the intellectual.
The integers of language are sentences, and their organs are the parts of speech. Linguistic organization, then, consists in the differentiation of the parts of speech and the integration of the sentence.
Aimlessly It pounds the shore. White and aimless signals. No One listens to poetry. — from "Thing Language
Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write.
I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.
From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us.
A feature of English that makes it different compared with all other languages is its global spread.
Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language.
Some people accuse the new generation of being ignorant, maybe ignorant for the old generation, but it's a new language.
Appropriation was the language of my generation in many ways. It came out of Duchamp, Warhol, Johns, Lichtenstein.
The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages.
In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.
It was real Cheyenne. I would get the translations the night before, but it was very difficult because it was not like any other language you would be familiar with.
Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.
You should not translate for more than two hours at a time. After that, you lose your edge, the language becomes clumsy, rigid.
Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
He was not like Greek fathers. He didn't tell us to get married. My father thought it was very important that we travel, learn languages, be educated.
One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language.
