1603 Language Quotes for You to Enjoy

An enormous amount of scientific language is metaphorical. We talk about a genetic code, where code originally meant a cipher; we talk about the solar system model of the atom as though the atom were like a sun and moon and planets. Steven Pinker

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Language pedants hew to an oral tradition of shibboleths that have no basis in logic or style, that have been defied by great writers for centuries, and that have been disavowed by every thoughtful usage manual. Steven Pinker

Great Language Style Every Defied Thoughtful Logic Writers Tradition Been Oral Centuries Usage Manual Basis

As a graduate student, I wrote a long paper connecting the dots between mathematical models of learning and language development in children. It was published in a major journal. Steven Pinker

Learning Language Long Paper Student Journal Development Between Major Wrote Mathematical Models Graduate Graduate Student Children Dots Connecting Published

I'm very interested in language because it reflects our obsessions and ways of conceptualising the world. Steven Pinker

World Language Our Ways Obsessions Because Very Reflects Interested

If we can listen to English music without understanding nothing, and dance on it, and feel the groove, feel the feelings, I'm sure everybody can do exactly the same for each language. Stromae

Music Language Dance Feelings Understanding Nothing Everybody Exactly Exactly The Same Feel Sure Without Same Listen Groove English Each

The last thing an Englishman wants to hear is a man from Brussels trying to imitate his language - you want to hear a different point of view. You may not be able to understand the details, but you can understand the feeling. Stromae

I think it's about the feeling more than a language. And I think that we and every culture in the world has to keep their own language just to bring something else, something different, and show a different vision of the world, actually. And that's why I'm trying to keep my language. Stromae

I let Brel into my world. What I like about him is the simplicity of his language. It's not so simple to be simple. Stromae

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I find in music there's a space and a language I can use to express things in ways I can't describe conversationally. Sufjan Stevens

Music Space Language Ways Find Use Describe Express Things

Musicians are often asked to answer for an entire culture, or for an entire movement. It's a process of commodification. It becomes packaged and summarized in a word like 'emo' or 'grunge'... or 'folk music.' I think that's just language itself, trying to understand the mysteries of the world. Sufjan Stevens

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In nine months, a group of children left alone with a computer - in any language - would reach the same standard as an office secretary in the West. Sugata Mitra

Alone Language Group Nine Nine Months Secretary Months Would Computer Reach West Left Office Same Any Children Standard

Real novelists, those we admire, those we consider timeless in their language and character and scene, those who receive accolades for inventive language and form, have writing lives we imagine in specific ways. Susan Straight

Character Writing Language Consider Ways Those Admire Scene Inventive Real Accolades Timeless Form Who Novelists Lives Specific Receive Imagine

Sanskrit language and the subjects in Sanskrit are both vital alike. Sushma Swaraj

Language Alike Vital Both Subjects

In our midst, there are nations that still speak the language of terrorism, that nurture it, peddle it, and export it. To shelter terrorists has become their calling card. We must identify these nations and hold them to account. Sushma Swaraj

New words travel from one variety of English to another and at a rapidly increasing rate, thanks to the way language is exchanged today over e-mail, chat rooms, TV, etc. Susie Dent

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Whether the film is a Hindi film or in a South Indian language, I don't think it matters. Tabu

Language Matters Think Indian Hindi South Whether Film

There are lots of actors who insist on speaking the lines themselves, and you hear the same thing from directors and the audience, but I don't think it's worth getting het up about. I think it makes more sense to use someone who speaks that country's language: that's what voice actors are for. Tadanobu Asano

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I was always taught that Latin, Caribbean people were cousins to me, as well as blues was a cousin to me, as well as Africans were direct relatives to me. It was all a part of my language. Taj Mahal

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