Language Quotes - Page 35

• Being raised a Jew in southern California in the 1950s and 1960s, my religious training emphasized learning the Hebrew language and Jewish festivals, history, and culture. We also remembered the Holocaust and supported the newly formed Jewish state of Israel.

  Rick Strassman

  Religious, Israel, California

  Rick Strassman, M.D. (2000). “DMT: The Spirit Molecule: A Doctor's Revolutionary Research into the Biology of Near-Death and Mystical Experiences”, p.295, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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• And this I have learned grown-ups do not know the language of shadows.

  Opal Whiteley

  Shadow, I Have Learned, Knows

  Opal Whiteley (2010). “Opal: The Journal of an Understanding Heart”, p.127, Crown

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• The act of vagabonding is not an isolated trend so much as it is a spectral connection between people long separated by place and time, but somehow speaking the same language.

  Rolf Potts

  Long, People, Trends

  Rolf Potts (2002). “Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel”, p.5, Ballantine Books

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• Scrape the surface of language, and you will behold interstellar space and the skin that encloses it.

  Velimir Khlebnikov

  Space, Skins, Surface

  Velimir Khlebnikov, Charlotte Douglas (1990). “The King of Time: Selected Writings of the Russian Futurian”, p.205, Harvard University Press

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• When Mr. Miyamoto says easy, he doesnt mean simple. He means easily -- this is the difficulty of the language here. Its accessible, and you know how to do things, if not necessarily what to do. You may have a series of puzzles to figure out, and it may be difficult to decipher the meaning, but its not difficult to accomplish what you need to do.

  Eiji Aonuma

  Mean, Simple, Needs

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• Translation rewrites a foreign text in terms that are intelligible and interesting to readers in the receiving culture. Doing so is akin to committing an act of ethnocentric violence by uprooting the text from the language and culture that gave it life. Translating into current, standard English at once conceals that violence and homogenizes foreign cultures.

  Lawrence Venuti

  Interesting, Receiving, Culture

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• We acquire both the language and religious concepts from our immediate culture – at the same time. A child cannot discriminate between useful survival information and the emotional and psychological manipulations of religion. Once infected, these ideas are deeply embedded and almost impossible to change.

  Darrel Ray

  Religious, Children, Emotional

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• Language is the soul’s ozone layer and we thin it at our peril.

  Sven Birkerts

  Ozone, Soul, Layers

  Sven Birkerts (2006). “The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age”, p.153, Macmillan

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• Seriously, I do not know what to say of this book [ Absalom, Absalom!] except that it seem to point to the final blowup of what was once a remarkable, if minor, talent… this is a penny dreadful tricked up in fancy language and given a specious depth by the expert manipulation of a series of eccentric technical tricks. The characters have no magnitude and no meaning because they have no more reality than a mince-pie nightmare.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Book, Character, Reality

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• The New Oxford Dictionary has declared Sarah Palin's word 'refudiate' to be the 2010 Word of the Year. Palin was honored and said she would do her best to 'dismangle' the English language.

  Conan O'Brien

  Years, Oxford, Said

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• I think somebody who speaks the language is going to notice immediately that I'm not Russian.

  Nicholas Lea

  Thinking, Speak

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It seems to me that if there were any logic to our language, trust would be a four letter word.

  Tom Cruise

  Would Be, Four, Letters

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• Net neutrality: The only two words that promise more boredom in the English language are 'featuring Sting,'

  John Oliver

  Two, Boredom, Promise

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• Even if I think in English, it's more a language of acting than French.

  Sophie Marceau

  Thinking, Acting, Ifs

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• It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to master a foreign language if you're not brought up with it

  Max von Sydow

  Important, Now And Then, Masters

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• I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor

  Max von Sydow

  Mother, Thinking, Musical

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• I learned how to sign because when I was growing up in California in order to get into college you needed two semesters of language to get into a University of California school.

  Camryn Manheim

  Growing Up, School, College

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• If you listen to a language for 15 minutes, you know the rhythm and song.

  Sid Caesar

  Song, Minutes, Rhythm

  "The words and comedy of Sid Caesar" by Lisa Respers France, www.cnn.com. February 12, 2014.

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• I learned Spanish at home and, since half my family doesn't speak English, it's my first language.

  Odette Annable

  Home, Speak English, Half

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Elvis is the greatest cultural force in the twentieth century. He introduced the beat to everything, music, language, clothes, it's a whole new social revolution - the 60's comes from it.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Clothes, Revolution, Social

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• English is a really wonderful language and I urge you all to investigate it

  Werner Herzog

  Wonderful, Urges

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• Also, I think having a musicality about me, that helps in identifying different things in languages and getting them right.

  Toni Collette

  Thinking, Different, Helping

  "Toni Collette: Keeping Track Of Multiple Personalities". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. April 1, 2010.

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• I certainly don't walk around my home or being with my family and just using profane language all the time, but on stage, it's a constant.

  Andrew Dice Clay

  Home, My Family, Stage

  "Andrew Dice Clay is back with 'no apologies'" by Alan Duke, www.cnn.com. December 29, 2012.

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• Truth speaks best in the language of poetry and symbolism, I think.

  Grant Morrison

  Thinking, Symbolism, Speak

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• I'm talking to a journalist and I really have nothing to say anymore, this is already uncomfortable. I feel the pain coming already. The brutal pain, when one day I should read your edit of whatever I say, because no matter what I say, no matter how I say it, no matter its tone, its frequency range, its decibel level or the way in which I put the words together, no matter my intentions and no matter the truth. What I'll read one day will be a chastised, manipulated abortion of your misunderstandings, your manipulations, your agenda and your amateur use of the English language.

  Vincent Gallo

  Pain, Talking, Abortion

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