I would say that jazz is my own language.
Music is a great energizer. It's a language everybody knows.
I'm a champion for western civilization and, yes, our English language is a big part of it. It's a carrier of freedom. Wherever the English language has gone globally, freedom went with it. Science technology has always lifted up the standard of living on average of everybody on the planet. I want more of that, not less. There are civilizations that produce very little, if any. This western civilization is a superior civilization, and we want to share it with everybody.
Programming languages are like girlfriends: The new one is better because *you* are better.
There are times when the power of language is not the power that is needed.
There is a kind of nonlinguistic thought going on which we are trying to represent in language, and we know that sometimes we fail.
I see tendencies, I see body language.
The fantastic thing about the theatre is that it can make something be seen that's invisible, and that's where my interest in theatre is- that you can be watching this thing happening with actors and costumes and light and set and language, and even plot, and something emerges from beyond that, and that's the image part that I'm looking for, that sort of added dimension.
If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code
Soundbite and slogan, strapline and headline, at every turn we meet hyperbole. The soaring inflation of the English language is more urgently in need of control than the economic variety.
Tangible language, which often tells more falsehoods than truths.
Above all, translators must be native speakers. It’s not because they speak the language better – I understand that sometimes a foreigner can learn a language better than native speakers. It has more to do with intimate knowledge of the society for which the book is being translated.
Language is the best, best toy.
Gore speaks to America as if English is its second language; George W. speaks as if English is his second language.
Human eyes are the sign language of the brain. If you watch them carefully, you can see the truth played out, raw and unguarded.
I love language. It doesn't bother me that its effects are partial. To me that is very sanity-producing. It would be weird if the effects of language were more than partial, if your whole life existed within your texts. That would be much scarier to me than language being an inadequate tool to represent.
If someone tried to assimilate you for years, if your language was forbidden, if the names of your hometown were changed, what would do you but revolt.
As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements and possibilities of language.
A data structure is just a stupid programming language.
RIBALDRY, n. Censorious language by another concerning oneself.