Quotes About Language

Because it's visual art, a lot of it comes from childhood experience but then a lot comes from the visual language - in advertising and stuff like that - which is around us.

Geometry in every proposition speaks a language which experience never dares to utter; and indeed of which she but halfway comprehends the meaning.

Even trained for years as they all had been in precision of language, what words could you use which would give another the experience of sunshine?

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.

For it was not so much that by means of words I came to a complete understanding of things, as that from things I somehow had an experience which enabled me to follow the meaning of words.

As strange as it may sound, our experience of a Chagall painting actually depends to some extent on whether our language has a word for blue.

Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.

In my experience, writing a novel tends to create its own structure, its own demands, its own language, its own ending.

I'm too intellectual. I don't think that the theological vocabulary is as important as the experience.

Why the need, rising in some very nearly to the level of compulsion, to verify experience by way of language?-to scrupulously record and preserve the very passing of Time?

For me, rather than the language, the Hollywood system of making movies was a tremendous learning experience.

Language always preserves a play or figure/ground relation between experience, and perception and its replay in expression.

I'm interested in a lot of the languages that drive our culture. I'm interested in user experience as language or how societal malaise takes root.

The luster of an experience can actually go up with time. So, learning to play a new instrument, learning a new language - those sorts of things will pay dividends for years or decades to come.

The multitude of people fail because they talk failure.

If we do not get No Child Left Behind right for Limited English Proficient students, the law will be a failure for most schools in the 15th Congressional District, and for many across the nation.

The proper use of comments is to compensate for our failure to express ourself in code.

I feel like the biggest failure of humans is miscommunication. We can't communicate with each other-we can fight, we can kill, we can do those things well.

The critical image... must not only fail to capture its referent, but show its failure.

The language of faith is crucial because it affords human beings the privilege of intimacy with the ultimate.

We are only syllables of the perfect Word.

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

Faith is not imparted like secular subjects. It is given through the language of the heart.

The Catholic faith never changes. But the language and mode of manifesting this one faith can change according to peoples, times and places.