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It's kind of a language I've developed over time that's basically breaking up the face into components and planes. Inside each plane, I draw gradation marks, and when planes come together, they form sinews, a hairlike weave that's like a...

Quotes by Toyin Odutola

One of the important things about familiar form and metricality is that it draws attention to the physical nature of language: the spell-binding nature of it and the ceremony of articulation.

Quotes by Tony Harrison

I wanted to learn Latin and Greek and become a poet and acquire power over language. I only understand this clearly in retrospect, that my ability to study came from a hunger to learn all the resources of articulation.

Quotes by Tony Harrison

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.

Quotes by Toni Morrison

Cormac McCarthy's language is perfect. He is in my view the greatest living American prose stylist.

Quotes by Tommy Lee Jones

Foreign languages was the only thing that interested me when I was at school, so playing in another language... it is quite demanding because if it is not your mother tongue, you are missing some connotations and some emotional depth...

Quotes by Tom Wlaschiha

The language marches in step with the executioners. Therefore we must get a new language.

Quotes by Tomas Transtromer

Right before 'American Dreams,' I started to pursue these avenues, like short films and getting into a couple night courses to really study photography and cinematography, and the language of visual storytelling.

Quotes by Tom Verica

Without your data, Google couldn't pursue the dream of trying to figure out what you're really thinking when you're asking a question, of trying to discern, from the imprecision of your language, the exact answer you're looking for.

Quotes by Tom Junod

Certain things were deemed to be offensive. It was usually bad language.

Quotes by Timothy West

The most delightful aspect about the language of cinema is that it speaks to each of us in different ways - it is a purely subjective experience.

Quotes by Tina Ambani

Status-driven, conspicuous consumption thrives from the language of novelty.

Quotes by Tim Jackson

I avoid all the language and nudity and violence and everything. I have enough of that at home.

Quotes by Tim Conway

Action is a universal language, so everyone understands a punch and a kick.

Quotes by Tiger Shroff

I'm not any good at foul language or anything like that.

Quotes by Thora Hird

And, indeed, though they differ concerning other things, yet all agree in this: that they think there is one Supreme Being that made and governs the world, whom they call, in the language of their country, Mithras.

Quotes by Thomas More

But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.

Quotes by Thomas Lynch

If I were assigned poems I suppose I'd write more of them but it is entirely voluntary and for the most part ignored in the market sense of the word so the language to me is most intimate, most important,...

Quotes by Thomas Lynch

So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.

Quotes by Thomas Lynch

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

Quotes by Thomas Hardy

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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