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“For example, parents who talk a lot to their children have kids with better language skills, parents who spank have children who grow up to be violent, parents who are neither too authoritarian or too lenient have children who are well-adjusted, and so on.”

Wells Children Kids Language Grows Parent Growing Up Example Skills Violent Lenient Language Skills

Author:Steven Pinker

“To get someone to pose, you have to be very good friends and above all speak the language.”

Speak Language Very Good Good Friend Portraiture Very Good Friends

Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“Net - the biggest word in the language of business.”

Language Capitalism

Author:Herbert Newton Casson

“I do swear a lot, but the advantage is that having played abroad, I can choose a different language from the referee's.”

I Can Different Language Advantage Swear Referee Different Languages

Author:Jurgen Klinsmann

“If we could talk to the animals, learn their languages, maybe take an animal degree.”

Ifs Language Animal Degrees

Author:Rex Harrison

“I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect.”

Different Lost Language Half Staring Sat Dialect

Book:Growing Pains: The Autobiography of Emily Carr

Source: Growing Pains: The Autobiography of Emily Carr

“Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication.”

Art Language Communication Art Is Instruments

Book:Jean Dubuffet: Two Decades, 1943-1962 : November 1 - December 31, 1983

Source: Jean Dubuffet: Two Decades, 1943-1962 : November 1 - December 31, 1983

“Painting is... a richer language than words... Painting operates through signs which are not abstract and incorporeal like words. The signs of painting are much closer to the objects themselves.”

Language Objects Painting Abstract

Author:Jean Dubuffet

“The poets are the standard bearers of language. Their work lives or dies word by word. When I write and can hear a clunky sentence, I try to write up to the poetry that I have recited beforehand.”

Writing Trying Poetry Dies Language Poet Standards Sentences

Author:Janet Fitch

“You need language for thought, and you need language to anticipate death. There is no abstract thought without language and no anticipation. I think the anticipation of death without language would be impossible.”

Thinking Needs Would Be Language Impossible Abstract Anticipation Anticipate

Author:David Cronenberg

“The people of the two nations, French and English, must be brought into mutual dependence by the supply of each other's wants. There is no other way of counteracting the antagonism of language and race. It is God's own method of producing an entente cordiale, and no other plan is worth a farthing.”

People Way Want Two Language Nations Race Plans Method Mutual Dependence Antagonism Statesmanship Two Nations

Author:Richard Cobden

“To transform experience and thought into language and narrative - that is beautiful even if that beauty is in brokenness.”

Ifs Beautiful Language Narrative Brokenness

Author:Alice Sebold

“Knowing that language has done so much, we want to believe that it can do everything.”

Want Believe Done Language Can Do Knowing

Author:Denis Donoghue

“The music takes over the words and makes them speak to me in another language.”

Speak Language

Author:Roger Scruton

“We always translate the other person's language into our own language.”

Persons Language Translate

Book:The Wisdom of Milton H. Erickson: Human Behavior and Psychotherapy

Source: The Wisdom of Milton H. Erickson: Human Behavior and Psychotherapy

“The benefits of becoming fluent in a foreign tongue are as underestimated as the difficulty is overestimated. Thousands of theoretical linguists will disagree, but I know from research and personal experimentation with more than a dozen languages that (1) adults can learn languages much faster than children when constant 9-5 work is removed and that (2) it is possible to become conversationally fluent in any language in six months or less. At four hours per day, six months can be whittled down to less than three months.”

“The painting cannot be laid aside even for a day; for it takes constant work to keep 'flowing,' but above that it takes concentration, which in our language is consecration.”

Language Painting Flow Constant Concentration Consecration

Author:Morris Graves

“Even if people are suspicious of the motives I think that learning and speaking two languages can only be a good thing for people.”

People Ifs Thinking Two Language Good Things Motive Suspicious

Author:Stephen Harper

“A lot of innovation in language comes from poetry.”

Language Innovation

Author:Jim Jarmusch

“The so-called language of Barbara Kruger is vernacular language. Obviously, I pick through bits and pieces of it and figure out to some degree how to objectify my experience of the world, using pictures and words that construct and contain me.”

World Language Bits Pieces Figures Degrees Picks Constructs Barbara Bits And Pieces Vernacular Pictures And Words

Author:Barbara Kruger

“Ads and logos are our shared global culture and language, and people are insisting on the right to use that language, to reformulate it in the way that artists and writers always do with cultural material,.”

People Way Use Artist Culture Language Materials Ads Insisting Logos Artists And Writers Culture And Language

Author:Naomi Klein

“Poetry is language surprised in the act of changing into meaning.”

Poetry Language Poetry Is

Book:Conversations with Stanley Kunitz

Source: Conversations with Stanley Kunitz

“Jas in the Arab language is despair, And Min the darkest meaning of a lie. Thus cried the Jessamine among the flowers, How justly doth a lie Draw on its head despair! Among the fragrant spirits of the bowers The boldest and the strongest still was I. Although so fair, Therefore from Heaven A stronger perfume unto me was given Than any blossom of the summer hours.”

Stills Spirit Lying Language Given Heaven Hours Flower Despair Summer Draws Fairs Stronger Strongest Cried Perfume

Book:The Music-lesson of Confucius, and Other Poems

Source: The Music-lesson of Confucius, and Other Poems

“If someone tried to assimilate you for years, if your language was forbidden, if the names of your hometown were changed, what would do you but revolt.”

Ifs Years Names Language Changed Forbidden Revolt Hometown

Author:Osman Baydemir

“Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language.”

Littles Language Society Mathematics Grammar

Book:The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance

Source: The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance

“Harmony is an obscure and difficult musical science, but most difficult to those who are not acquainted with the Greek language; because it is necessary to use many Greek words to which there are none corresponding in Latin.”

Use Language Difficult Harmony Musical Greek Latin Obscure Corresponding

Book:The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books, Translated from the Latin by J. Gwilt

Source: The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books, Translated from the Latin by J. Gwilt

“You can compare it to dreams: you have a very specific and individual pictorial language that you either accept or that you can translate rashly and wrongly. Of course, you can ignore dreams, but that would be a shame, because they're useful.”

Dream Would Be Courses Individual Language Accepting Shame Compare Translate Dreams You Have Pictorial

Book:Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007

Source: Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007

“In truth, factual information - names or dates - have never interested me much. Those things are like an alien language that can interfere with the language of the painting, or even prevent its emergence.”

Names Language Information Painting Aliens Interfere Emergence Factual

Book:Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007

Source: Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007

“So far as the advocates of a constructed international language are concerned, it is rather to be wondered at how much in common their proposals actually have, both in vocabulary and in general spirit of procedure.”

Spirit Language Common Concerned International Vocabulary Proposal Procedures International Language

Book:General Linguistics

Source: General Linguistics

“The full meaning of a language is never translatable into another. We may speak several languages but one of them always remains the one in which we live. In order completely to assimilate a language it would be necessary to make the world which it expresses one's own and one never does belong to two worlds at once.”

World May Doe Two Would Be Order Speak Language Remains Two Worlds Phenomenology

Book:Phenomenology of Perception

Source: Phenomenology of Perception

“Like the weaver, the writer works on the wrong side of his material. He has only to do with the language, and it is thus that he suddenly finds himself surrounded by sense.”

Language Sides Materials Phenomenology Weavers

Book:The Merleau-Ponty Aesthetics Reader: Philosophy and Painting

Source: The Merleau-Ponty Aesthetics Reader: Philosophy and Painting

“Each person has a literature inside them. But when people lose language, when they have to experiment with putting their thoughts together on the spot-that's what I love most. That's where character lives.”

People Persons Character Together Literature Language Loses Decision Experiments Spots Life Decision

Author:Anna Deavere Smith

“I think all poets must feel this: that there is constantly something new to be discovered in the language. It's like a thrilling encounter, and you can find things.”

Thinking Feels Language Poet Discovery Encounters Something New Thrilling

Author:Carol Ann Duffy

“The poem is a form of texting... it's the original text. It's a perfecting of a feeling in language - it's a way of saying more with less, just as texting is.”

Way Feelings Form Language Technology Originals Texting

Author:Carol Ann Duffy

“In my father's language: "To create something out of nothing." That possibility exists in India even in old-world sectors like agriculture.”

World Father Language Possibility India Agriculture Old World

Author:Mukesh Ambani

“The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.”

Book Different Language Cinema Prose Translate

Author:Yann Martel

“I wish I could convey the perfection of a seal slipping into water or a spider monkey swinging from point to point or a lion merely turning its head. But language founders in such seas. Better to picture it in your head if you want to feel it.”

Ifs Want Feels Language Wish Water Sea Perfection Lions Founders Monkeys Spiders Seals Slipping

Book:Life Of Pi, Illustrated

Source: Life Of Pi, Illustrated

“Reality is very, very contradictory, and so I try to write just perfecting what I see, what I read, what I feel, in a feel-thinking way. Not only giving ideas, or receiving ideas, or trying to explain something, but mainly feel-thinking, a feel-thinking language able to tie the heart and the mind, which have been divorced.”

Thinking Way Giving Feels Writing Trying Mind Heart Has Beens Ideas Reality Able Language Ties Receiving Divorced Contradictory

Author:Eduardo Galeano

“Poetic language is singularly appropriate for recounting the life of the king who is traditionally accepted as the author of the poetic psalms, some of which are included in the narrative.”

Language Kings Accepted Narrative Appropriate Poetic Psalms

Author:Robert Pinsky

“If a symbolic language dies, it tortures us like a nightmare, like a thousand piece orchestra grating on our nerves and tearing our mind to pieces.. .It is a corpse with no symbolic power or strength.”

Ifs Mind Dies Language Pieces Thousand Torture Nightmare Nerves Orchestra Corpses Symbolic

Author:Asger Jorn

“Among the language of the American Indians, there is no word for 'art'... For Indians, everything is art... therefore needs no name.”

Needs Art Names Language American Indian

Author:Jamake Highwater

“Artists are perennially implored to consider 'the limitations of the medium.' Whoever invented this expression exaggerated the limitations of the English language. We are not concerned with what effects cannot be produced with our materials.”

Artist Language Effects Expression Materials Concerned Mediums Limitation English Language Exaggerated

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“I stand and listen to people speaking french in the stores and in the street. It's such a pert, crisp language, elegant as ruffling taffeta.”

People Language Streets Stores Elegant Crisps Speaking French

Author:Belva Plain

“The Constitution gives us a standard to follow. We cannot define impeachable offenses to a greater degree than the language of the Constitution. But we all agree the issue is the public trust. Our duty is not to punish anyone. And our challenge is to avoid pettiness.”

Giving Language Challenges Issues Greater Duty Degrees Standards Constitution Agree Offense Pettiness Public Trust

Author:Asa Hutchinson

“Entranced by the denotative power of words to define, to order, to represent the things around us, weve overlooked the songful dimension of language so obvious to our oral [storytelling] ancestors. Weve lost our ear for the music of language -- for the rhythmic, melodic layer of speech by which earthly things overhear us.”

Order Lost Language Speech Ears Obvious Storytelling Dimensions Ancestor Layers Power Of Words Overlooked Earthly Things

Author:David Abram

“Language is not neutral. It is not merely a vehicle which carries ideas. It is itself a shaper of ideas.”

Ideas Language Carrie Vehicle

Author:Dale Spender

“Good art has everything you need to know about it in the work, not on a wall label. Art is here to take us beyond language.”

Knows Needs Art Language Wall Art Is Labels Good Art

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“Science is a matter of adjusting language to explain material reality. Art is a matter of adjusting material reality to create a sense of life.”

Art Matter Reality Language Materials Art Is Adjusting

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“I seek a form of language which will express my ideas for our time.”

Ideas Form Language Our Time

Book:Arshile Gorky: 1904-1948, a Retrospective

Source: Arshile Gorky: 1904-1948, a Retrospective

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