The dinner even is only the parable of a dinner, commonly.
Today I send this message to every emerging global corporation: "justice; family, community, and union" are the same in every language and, wherever you go and whatever you do, a new global labor movement is coming to find you.
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
I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.
There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry.
Nobody in my family or in my neighborhood used the language that they used at the University of Chicago. I remember the first time I heard the word "value" repeated again and again by my professor. Value to me was the price of a frying pan.
At Ungaro, I discovered the flou and the language of Paris.
It seems to me that right under the surface of human neurological organization is a mode shift of some sort that would make language beholdable.
Oh, God, if I were sure I were to die tonight I would repent at once. It is the commonest prayer in all languages.
My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention. "
As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, language is just no damn good—I use it because I have to, but I don’t put any trust in it. We never understand each other.
I try for a poetic language that says, This is who we are, where we have been, where we are. This is where we must go. And this is what we must do.
He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.
Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
Hash, x. There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is. Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable. Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.
It's nonsense to say that it's not in the bill. The reality is that the bill they will have passed to the Senate will have this language in it.
Doing TV is a different kind of language.
By diminishing the value of silence, publicity has also diminished that of language. The two are inseparable: knowing how to speak has always meant knowing how to keep silent, knowing that there are times when one should say nothing.
A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
Human language is nothing like the signalling systems of other animals.