#lang

The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Annaud

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When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Annaud

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From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us. ↗

— David Antin

#entertainment industry #gods #industry #language #may

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand. ↗

— Edward Appleton

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All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth. ↗

— Antonin Artaud

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Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing. ↗

— J. L. Austin

#claim #language #last #ordinary #ordinary language

Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively. ↗

— Bill Griffith

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What a gulf between impression and expression! That’s our ironic fate—to have Shakespearean feelings and (unless by some billion-to-one chance we happen to be Shakespeare) to talk about them like automobile salesmen or teen-agers or college professors. We practice alchemy in reverse—touch gold and it turns into lead; touch the pure lyrics of experience, and they turn into the verbal equivalents of tripe and hogwash. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive. ↗

— Roland Barthes

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Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

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