Twittering and blogging and all that is fine, but there is no idea of how to phrase something beautifully; how to use language to create an emotion. It's just passing information and sometimes very superficial information.
All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.
Comics, in a sense, the style, the images - it's almost like music. They say music is a universal language, but when the eyes behold something, a figure, somebody moving; it's real, and it cannot be denied.
Listen, I'm from Belfast. We're not polite people. And it's language. We're direct.
The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God.
Music transcends language. BTS communicates with our fans by staying true to ourselves and believing in music every day.
Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.
The child, merely by going on with his life, learns to speak the language belonging to his race. It is like a mental chemistry that takes place in the child.
When I have time, I would like to do films in my language but I would also like to star in Bengali and Marathi films too.
I want to live in Kolkata; I don't want to live in Europe - I can't write there. I write in Bengali, and I need to be surrounded by the Bengali language and culture.
I learnt to sing in Bengali, my mother tongue, then went on to sing in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati and every possible Indian language.
The development of language is part of the development of the personality, for words are the natural means of expressing thoughts and establishing understanding between people.
I think, look, you have to be aware of the language, and you have to be aware a little bit of your own biases if you're going to overcome them.
Being here in the United States, English is not my first language. It's kind of a challenge for me, a big challenge for my family.
I just don't like big guys who speak cryptically and act like they understand the language better than me.
The radio was my big influence. Comedy came from the instinctual feel I had for language.
Big stuff and little: learning how to order breakfast in a country where I don't speak the language and haven't been before - that's really satisfying to me. I like that.
I failed world geography, civics, Spanish and English. And when you fail Spanish and English, they do not consider you bilingual. They may call you bi-ignorant because you can't speak any language.
Serial tasking is hard because switching tasks is hard, even when the tasks are easy and similar. In some experiments, bilingual speakers are asked to read out numbers, first in one language and then midway in another language. They often stumble at the switch, taking many tries before they hit their stride again.
There was a time when Stefan Zweig was the most widely read author in the world. He was lionized everywhere, translated into every language. For the first four decades of the 20th century, his novellas and biographies were devoured by rich and poor, young and old, well read or less so.
