Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words..
At some point in the next century the number of invented languages will probably overtake the number of surviving natural languages..
I have not tolerated an atheist in the ranks of the SS. Every member has a deep faith in God, in what my ancestors called in their language Waralda, ….
To me the Yiddish language and the conduct of those who spoke it are identical..
It's a kind of liberation to break free in language, if you can break free, but it's also a confinement, because form confines you - whatever the for….
Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square..
Language forces us to perceive the world as man presents it to us..
Dialogue is a lean language in which every word counts..
I feel that I speak the musical language..
Writing a poem is always a process of subtracting: you start with all of language available to you, and you choose a smaller field..
Instrumental music can spread the international language..
Baseball is a universal language. Catch the ball, throw the ball, hit the ball..
Heart is a sea, language is the shore. Whatever is in a sea hits the shore..
The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language..
We live at the level of our language. Whatever we can articulate we can imagine or understand or explore..
However great one's gift of language may be, there is always something that one cannot tell..
Among provocatives, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching. I have even more thoughts during or enduring it than at other times..
Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scient….
Architectural drawing is a language with conventions where the rules can be deliberately misused; a well-composed architectural drawing can both cont….
Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech..
It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable..