Language Quotes (1804 Quotes)



    Don Ricardo Evertom, said the priest, has left footprints in this soil that neither rain nor wind can scrap away. Nationality and language do not separate friends.... It makes no difference what a man believes if he is a good person.

    It is universal and has no preference for race, religion, age or even social status. Since music is such an impartial language, there is no better way to raise awareness and support for our troops and their families than through song.

    It is clear from a common sense viewing of the program that coarse language is a part of the culture of the individuals being portrayed. To accurately reflect their viewpoint and emotions about blues music requires airing of certain material that, if prohibited, would undercut the ability of the filmmaker to convey the reality of the subject of the documentary.



    Yet, I am convinced that there is a need for high quality software, and the time will come when it will be recognized that it is worth investing effort in its development and in using a careful, structured approach based on safe, structured languages.



    If you go into a bar in most places in America and even say the word poetry, you'll probably get beaten up. But poetry is a really strong, beautiful form to me, and a lot of innovation in language comes from poetry.

    If we're going to solve the problems of the world, we have to learn how to talk to one another. Poetry is the language at its essence. It's the bones and the skeleton of the language. It teaches you, if nothing else, how to choose your words.

    When language was not transcendental enough to complete the meaning of a revelation, symbols were relied upon for heavenly teaching, and familiar images, chosen from the known, were made to mirror the unknown spiritual truth.


    In my mind I didn't see that there was any action that was required other than to say 'Look, go back and administer the policy the way it was passed in 2001.' But since there was some confusion and the language was a little unclear, it was spelled out in the new policy.


    No one wants to see this happen. But the bottom line is they are going to have to say to us you are a partner in this district. The language that cuts days and the language that changes our (pay increases) must be changed.

    I have stolen more quotes and thoughts and purely elegant little starbursts of writing from the Book of Revelation than anything else in the English language and it is not because I am a biblical scholar, or because of any religious faith, but because I love the wild power of the language and the purity of the madness that governs it and makes it music.


    It was much easier for the players, because you are talking in the same language. A year ago, it sounded like Chinese to them, because everything was new. The coaches' names were new, everything we were calling and doing was new.


    There are a lot of movies out there for you, but there is room on the shelf for something that's free and liberating as well, ... If you don't like dirty jokes, if you don't like rough language, I highly recommend the penguin movie because they dress really nicely.

    We think that basketball is the international language. It's a sport that was invented in America, but it travels the world. It's been an Olympic sport since 1936, and we have worked with many of the countries here.



    We are so close to Mexico, your Spanish needs to be great, better than great. It has to be perfect. You have to have excellent knowledge of the game and knowledge of the language. If not, the people will let you know.

    Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other.



    This is yet another example of how agents react and adapt to ever-changing immigration trends, ... When agents started arresting large numbers of Brazilians in the RGV sector, we relied heavily on these agents to translate using their knowledge of the Portuguese language.


    At least one person agreed that the language was bad. I don't even mind the noise, ... My complaint is only with the strong language that was used. . . . Even several blocks away it was very clear what was being said.

    I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and say, 'Hi, how are you?' in their language, they love it. It makes them feel like you're doing it just for them. We in America take so much for granted.

    Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground.


    I would like to see us come out and get a lead early on and maintain that. To know when and how momentum is available to us and just reach out and grab it. I feel like we have it knocking at the door, and some of our girls are oblivious that it's there to be taken. Whether that be showing good body language, like pumping a fist, or continuing with the same game plan.

    I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.



    The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of language and diction, different approach to story.




    Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.


    Damon was in the zone. I was talking with the other linemen and we saw it in Damon's eyes. We said, 'Number 9 is in the zone.' Man, was he on and it couldn't come at a better time. He's been in the league for 20 years. You know when he's on and when he's not on by his eyes, his body language, his play calling. It was contagious. He's not just the MVP of this game. He's the MVP of this league, hands down.


    All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care.

    In either case, with both bodies of work, I strive to create a constructed reality sympathetic to our own physical and sensory experiences, but clearly built within the world of a painted language.

    As basic rules of a language must be practiced continually, and therefore are never fixed, so exercises toward distinct color effects never are done or over. New and different cases will be discovered time and again.


    The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in the language or design of the Constitution.



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