#lang

One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language. ↗

— Alma Guillermoprieto

#does #givens #language #many #society

Talking in one language and talking in another, I think inevitably, produce two different personalities, as far as I've seen in other people. I assume it does the same for me. ↗

— Alma Guillermoprieto

#as far as #assume #different #different personalities #does

Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#deep #deep feeling #feeling #good #help

Disappointment over nationalistic authoritarian regimes may have contributed to the fact that today religion offers a new and subjectively more convincing language for old political orientations. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#contributed #convincing #disappointment #fact #language

The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#creates #interests #kind #language #me

Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language. ↗

— Conrad Hall

#infinite #language #more #much #music

There are infinite shadings of light and shadows and colors... it's an extraordinarily subtle language. Figuring out how to speak that language is a lifetime job. ↗

— Conrad Hall

#extraordinarily #figuring #how #infinite #job

We should never denigrate any other culture but rather help people to understand the relationship between their own culture and the dominant culture. When you understand another culture or language, it does not mean that you have to lose your own culture. ↗

— Edward T. Hall

#any #between #culture #denigrate #does

Man is used to the fact that there are languages which he does not at first understand and which must be learned, but because art is primarily visual he expects that he should get the message immediately and is apt to be affronted if he doesn't. ↗

— Edward T. Hall

#apt #art #because #does #expects

Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself. ↗

— Johann Georg Hamann

#also #crux #entire #itself #language