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There is a basic language of music that I think is important for communicating with other musicians - just the kind of terminology that might make it easier to describe your ideas to the other guys in your band.

Quotes by Paul Gilbert

For my Oxford degree, I had to translate French and German philosophy (as it turned out, Descartes and Kant) at sight without a dictionary. That meant Germany for my first summer vacation, to learn the thorny language on my own.

Quotes by Paul Engle

The language of chemistry simply does not mesh with that of biology. Chemistry is about substances and how they react, whereas biology appeals to concepts such as information and organisation. Informational narratives permeate biology.

Quotes by Paul Davies

The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.

Quotes by Paul de Man

Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means.

Quotes by Paul de Man

Some scholars argue that although the brain might contain neural subsystems, or modules, specialized for tasks like recognizing faces and understanding language, it also contains a part that constitutes a person, a self: the chief executive of all the subsystems.

Quotes by Paul Bloom

Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved with the handwriting and then the look of the handwriting.

Quotes by Patti Smith

I really want to adopt a child... I want to be called 'Mom.' It really is the most beautiful word in the English language.

Quotes by Patti Stanger

After I'd been in college for a couple years I'd read Shakespeare and Frost and Chaucer and the poets of the Harlem Renaissance. I'd come to appreciate how gorgeous the English language could be. But most fantasy novels didn't seem...

Quotes by Patrick Rothfuss

The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.

Quotes by Patrick Kavanagh

One of the first major programming projects that I worked on when I was growing up in Ireland, back just coding by myself, was a programming language. Then I spent a bunch of time working on a new web framer....

Quotes by Patrick Collison

I have a handicap in that English is not my first language. So even though I'm a writer, I don't write anymore because it's just harder in English.

Quotes by Patricia Riggen

Americans are more likely to watch a film in their own language. For the rest of the world, it doesn't matter so much.

Quotes by Patricia Riggen

I've always seen movies in English with Spanish subtitles. For audiences around the world, the language is less important than if it's a good film.

Quotes by Patricia Riggen

There's a fashion abroad generally to speak the language as badly as possible. I'm of a mind to start a society for the reinstatement of the letter 't' and the banishment of the glottal stop.

Quotes by Patricia Routledge

What I really like doing is storytelling, finding the body language that is necessary for the story. And when I'm doing it and it's working, I'm thrilled.

Quotes by Patricia Birch

As the numbers of native-born Europeans begin to fall, with their anemic fertility rates, will the aging Europeans become more magnanimous toward destitute newcomers who do not speak the national language or assimilate into the national culture but consume its...

Quotes by Pat Buchanan

North Korea and South Korea speak the same language, and actually, we are the same country.

Quotes by Park Ji-sung

I've had fans coming up to me and speaking Chinese or Japanese. It's not a case of mistaken nationality. I just don't think they realise that we don't all speak the same language.

Quotes by Park Ji-sung

When it comes to remaking my own films in the English language, I can only imagine that it is a very boring process, I wouldn't ever dream of it.

Quotes by Park Chan-wook

Frequently Asked Questions

What do these Language quotes explore?
This set looks at the limits of ordinary language for describing science, the case for more scientific language in public discourse, feeling outmatched by the sheer size of the English language, and wanting to master the technical language of a craft like directing. If you like exploring how words shape meaning, so is our Like collection.
Is there a quote about language struggling to describe science?
Yes — one quote says, "The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But we cannot speak about atoms in ordinary language."
Is there a quote calling for more scientific language in public life?
There is. One quote argues, "More scientific language and less diplomatic rhetoric may make this world even better." For more ideas along these lines, see our More collection.
Is there a quote about the English language being hard to keep up with?
Yes — one quote admits, "Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head." Shakespeare is famous for exploring love as much as language, and you can see more of that in our Love collection.
Is there a quote about wanting to master a craft's technical language?
Yes — one quote shares, "The producing thing has come quite naturally to me. I feel like for directing, I would like to be more technically-savvy. I want to have the language under my belt." For more reflections framed in first person, see our Me collection.

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