#language

I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is. ↗

— Terry Prachett

#best #devised #fruit #fundamental #i

What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today when human contacts go so fast. Fashion is instant language. ↗

— Miuccia Prada

#especially #fashion #fast #go #how

Language is a social art. ↗

— Willard Van Orman Quine

#language #social

Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels. ↗

— Willard Van Orman Quine

#exhibits #labels #languages #meanings #museum

There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain. ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

#could #function #i #language #like

Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language that you're singing in, they still know good music when they hear it. ↗

— Lou Rawls

#even #good #good music #greatest #hear

I'm interested in Russian language, culture, history... and I lived there, for four years, as a reporter for the Washington Post and have visited many times since. ↗

— David Remnick

#four #history #i #interested #language

Certain things were deemed to be offensive. It was usually bad language. ↗

— Timothy West

#certain #certain things #deemed #language #offensive

Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#call #different #different language #every #great

Math and science fields are not the only areas where we see the United States lagging behind. Less than 1 percent of American high school students study the critical foreign languages of Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Russian, combined. ↗

— Cathy McMorris

#arabic #areas #behind #chinese #combined