#language

Expressing emotion is not so easy. He has to remind himself that English is not her first language. Expressing emotion can be difficult even when the words are familiar.  ↗

— Elise Valmorbida

#language-understanding #love

I did my first movie, 'The Mambo Kings,' in America without speaking the language. I learned the lines phonetically. I had an interpreter actually just to understand directions from my director. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#america #did #directions #director #first

Music is a language - and language, at its finest, should be music. ↗

— T.L. Rese

#music #writing #music

Hay una estrella mas abierta que la palabra 'amapola'? Is there a star more wide open than the word 'poppy"? ↗

— Pablo Neruda

#nature #poetry #stars #words #nature

Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas. ↗

— Eric Bentley

#bright #genuine #ideas #instead #jargon

The natural, proper, fitting shape of the novel might be that of a sack, a bag. A book holds words. Words hold things. They bear meanings. A novel is a medicine bundle, holding things in a particular, powerful relation to one another and to us. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#power #nature

We cannot be too careful about the words we use; we start out using them and they end up using us. ↗

— Eugene H. Peterson

#theology

When you work in a different language you are not so attached to the words. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#different #different language #language #words #work

It is time for dead languages to be quiet. ↗

— Natalie Clifford Barney

#languages #quiet #time

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#confront #excessive #hysteria #impoverished #language