#language

Since there is no real silence, Silence will contain all the sounds, All the words, all the languages, All knowledge, all memory. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#knowledge #languages #literature #literature-quotes #memory

Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone. ↗

— F. Murray Abraham

#answer #days #english #english language #every

But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#beautiful #chaotic #flow #heart #his

And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation. ↗

— Kathy Acker

#expectation #find #i #kind #language

I'm really fascinated and you know I've been wondering about that usage of language, various breathing techniques and why in these practices language is being used in another way. ↗

— Kathy Acker

#another #another way #been #being #being used

Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

#art #differ #good #good art #household

Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#chew #dictated #fill #hunger #language

Everybody needs to understand that I learned Arabic from the United States Army as a second language. I never spoke it at home. ↗

— John Abizaid

#army #body needs #everybody #home #i

I lived in England to learn English. When I went to England for the first time, it was like being on the Moon. I had no friends, I couldn't speak the language. I was very isolated. ↗

— Jean Alesi

#england #english #first #first time #friends

To work our way towards a shared language once again, we must first learn how to discover patterns which are deep, and capable of generating life. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#capable #deep #discover #first #generating