Language Quotes - Page 40

• We're persecuted in the most civilized languages.

  Bernard Malamud

  Civilized, Persecuted

  Bernard Malamud (2014). “The Fixer”, p.204, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• For us chess players the language of artist is something natural.

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Artist, Player, Chess

  "Art, Chess, Beauty and Depth". Interview with Ugo Dossi, en.chessbase.com. December 21, 2005.

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• All buildings, large or small, public or private, have a public face, a facade; they therefore, without exception, have a positive or negative effect on the quality of the public realm, enriching or impoverishing it in a lasting and radical manner. The architecture of the city and public space is a matter of common concern to the same degree as laws and language—they are the foundation of civility and civilisation.

  Leon Krier

  Law, Cities, Space

  Leon Krier (2009). “The Architecture of Community”, p.439, Island Press

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• Because Music is a language that lives in the spiritual realms, we can hear it, we can notate it and create it, but we cannot hold it in our hands

  Joy Harjo

  Spiritual, Hands, Music Is

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• Writing engenders in us certain attitudes toward language. It encourages us to take words for granted. Writing has enabled us to store vast quantities of words indefinitely. This is advantageous on the one hand but dangerous on the other. The result is that we have developed a kind of false security where language is concerned, and our sensitivity to language has deteriorated. And we have become in proportion insensitive to silence.

  N. Scott Momaday

  Attitude, Writing, Hands

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• For the storyteller, for the arrowmaker, language does indeed represent the only chance for survival.

  N. Scott Momaday

  Survival, Doe, Chance

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• It is this language of values which I hope to bring to my books. . . . I want to bring values to those who have not been valued, and I want to etch those values in terms of the ideal. Young people need ideals which identify them, and their lives, as central . . . guideposts which tell them what they can be, should be, and indeed are.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Book, People, Needs

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• Because I have become such a solitary, and not in the Aristotelian sense: not a beast, not a god. Rather, a loner troubled by longings, incapable of finding a suitable language and despairing at the impossibility of composing messages in a playable key--as if I no longer understood the codes used by the estimable people who wanted to hear from me and would have so much to reply if only the impediments were taken away.

  Saul Bellow

  Taken, Keys, People

  Saul Bellow (2010). “Saul Bellow: Letters”, p.422, Penguin

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• I want a language that speaks the truth.

  Studs Terkel

  Truth, Writing, Want

  Religion & Ethics Newsweekly Interview, www.pbs.org. December 19, 2003.

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• Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.

  Aravind Adiga

  Study, Columbia, University

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• I like to call someone a raving c**t every now and then, when it’s appropriate, for effect (...) ‘You cocksucker.’ I love that kind of language.

  Andrew Breitbart

  Kind, Now And Then, Effects

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• My discovery of Tarkovsky's first film was like a miracle. Suddenly, I found myself standing at the door of a room the keys of which had, until then, never been given to me. It was a room I had always wanted to enter and where he was moving freely and fully at ease.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Dream, Moving, Reflection

  "Transported by the Images of Tarkovsky" by Brad Brevet, www.comingsoon.net. March 12, 2013.

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• We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle. What I mean is that what composes an event is always extracted from a situation, always related back to a singular multiplicity, to its state, to the language that is connected to it, etc. In fact, so as not to succumb to an obscurantist theory of creation ex nihilo, we must accept that an event is nothing but a part of a given situation, nothing but a fragment of being.

  Alain Badiou

  Mean, Miracle, Events

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• Since music is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Men, Musical, Mystery

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• I loved everything about Spain - the people, the language, and the food!

  Karlie Kloss

  People, Spain

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• You don’t have the slightest idea of what it means to write a scene and a character in the English language, with images and words chock full of received meaning.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Writing, Character, Mean

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• A poem, as a manifestation of language and thus essentially dialogue, can be a message in a bottle, sent out in the –not always greatly hopeful-belief that somewhere and sometime it could wash up on land, on heartland perhaps. Poems in this sense too are under way: they are making toward something. Toward what? Toward something standing open, occupiable, perhaps toward an addressable Thou, toward an addressable reality.

  Paul Celan

  Reality, Land, Hopeful

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• To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Blow, World

  "History and Utopia". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.

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• True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways that writers used to aspire to.

  Don DeLillo

  Narrative Structure, Vision, Literature

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.84, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I'm bisexual, but it's not the sort of thing I spent a lot of time thinking about. I've slept with girls; I've slept with guys, so I guess that's what they call it! I'm not anti trying to use language to simplify our lives.

  Amanda Palmer

  Girl, Bisexual, Thinking

  "Getting Real With Amanda Palmer". Interview with Karman Kregloe, www.afterellen.com. July 18, 2007.

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• Mine. The language of love is like that, possessive. That should be the first warning that it's not going to encourage anyone's betterment.

  Holly Black

  Love Is, Language Of Love, Warning

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• I do believe that books can change lives and give people this kind of language they wouldn't have had otherwise.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Life Changing, Believe, Book

  "Jacqueline Woodson On Being A 'Brown Girl' Who Dreams". "Morning Edition", www.npr.org. September 18, 2014.

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• Ubuntu is very difficult to render into a Western language... It is to say, 'My humanity is caught up, is inextricably bound up, in what is yours.'

  Desmond Tutu

  Ubuntu, Oneness, Humanity

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• Page 61: No matter where I go in the world, although I can't speak any foreign language, I don't feel out of place. I think of earth as my home. If everyone thought this way, people might notice just how foolish international friction is and the would be put an end to it.

  Akira Kurosawa

  Home, Thinking, People

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• In the end, maybe the correct language would be how the fact of putting four edges around a collection of information or facts transforms it. A photograph is not what was photographed, it's something else.

  Garry Winogrand

  Photography, Would Be, Four

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