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I always try to learn a few words from a new language wherever I go. -- Olga Kurylenko
The language marches in step with the executioners. Therefore we must get a new language. -- Tomas Transtromer
Some people accuse the new generation of being ignorant, maybe ignorant for the old generation, but it's a new language. -- Domenico Dolce
If you're going to learn a new language, you can't try to be perfect. You'll stop yourself from talking. You just have to let go. -- Yao Ming
I feel growing up in Mumbai is an advantage, as we grow up speaking so many languages that when we go abroad, it becomes easier to learn new languages. -- Zubin Mehta
I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born. -- Emily Carr
I would guess that the decision to create a small special purpose language or use an existing general purpose language is one of the toughest decisions that anyone facing the need for a new language must make. -- Guido van Rossum
Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here. -- Yao Ming
I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Invent a new language anyone can understand. -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Speak a new language so that the world will be a new world. -- Rumi
I actually don't understand a word Paula's saying anymore. It's like a new language. -- Simon Cowell
I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. -- Emily Carr
Pain is usually all on the surface, but this terror is internal; not just a hurt, but a new language of feeling. -- Carla H. Krueger
A new language requires a new technique. If what you're saying doesn't require a new language, then what you're saying probably isn't new. -- Philip Glass
The problems of inventing a new language are staggering. But what else can one do if one needs to express one's feeling precisely? -- Robert Motherwell
Oftentimes an originator of new language forms is called 'pretentious' by jealous talents. But it ain't whatcha write, it's the way atcha write it. -- Jack Kerouac
Chennai is the birthplace of a new language in cinema. The audiences here are the most evolved moviegoers to be found anywhere in India. -- Anurag Kashyap
So learning to play a new instrument, learning a new language - those sorts of things will pay dividends for years or decades to come. -- Dan Buettner
When you speak a new language you must see if you can translate all of the poetry of your old language into the new one. -- Dana Scott
What you hear depends on how you focus your ear. We're not talking about inventing a new language, but rather inventing new perceptions of existing languages. -- Philip Glass
It would be really easy to write off the Dawn Wall as impossible. In terms of climbing technique, I'm learning a new language on this granite. -- Kevin Jorgeson
Want to know where the action in a culture is? Watch where new language is turning up and where the lawyers collect, usually in that sequence. -- Stewart Brand
Our Digital Immigrant instructors, who speak an outdated language (that of the pre-digital age), are struggling to teach a population that speaks an entirely new language -- Marc Prensky
To learn a new language is, therefore, always a sort of spiritual adventure; it is like a journey of discovery in which we find a new world. -- Ernst Cassirer
When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time slowly evolved. -- Lytton Strachey
The media must be used effectively to reach the masses. You have to find a new language in which to address the people and demonstrate what is possible. -- Wole Soyinka
Language is not a genetic gift, it is a social gift. Learning a new language is becoming a member of the club -the community of speakers of that language. -- Frank Smith
Today we are beginning to notice that the new media are not just mechanical gimmicks for creating worlds of illusion, but new languages with new and unique powers of expression. -- Marshall McLuhan
At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler. -- Dennis Ritchie
At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler -- Dennis Ritchie
Tarkovsky for me is the greatest [director], the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life as a reflection, life as a dream. -- Ingmar Bergman
Feel like the recluse who comes out into the world with a life-saving gospel to find everybody has learned a new language in the meantime and can't understand a word he's saying." -- Sylvia Plath
Furniture or gold can be taken away from you, but knowledge and a new language can easily be taken from one place to the other, and nobody can take them away from you. -- David Schwarzer
Just as surely as every new language mastered opens up a new world, so knowledge of a Beethoven, a Chopin, or a Schumann opens up a new world in spiritual beauty and thought. -- Ignacy Jan Paderewski
It's one thing to just play a tune, or play a program of music, but it's another thing to practically create a new language of music, which is what Kind of Blue did. -- Chick Corea
Running had always been off the table for me. It just looks embarrassing when I do it. I viewed it like learning a new language - best to learn it as a child. -- Lena Dunham
Any adaptation is a translation, and there is such a thing as an unreadably faithful translation; and I believe a degree of reinterpretation for the new language may be not only inevitable but desirable. -- David Mitchell
Learning astrology is like learning any foreign language. You already have the ideas, concepts, and experiences of your life within you; you are just learning a new language for what you are already experiencing. -- Barbara Goldsmith
The film [Boy and the World]gave me the possibility to create a new language. Animation is a very rich medium but hasn't fully been exploited by artists. Often artists are trapped by words. -- Alex Abreu
He was one of those inexplicable gifts of nature, an artist who leaps over boundaries, changes our nervous systems, creates a new language, transmits new kinds of joy to our startled senses and spirits. -- Jack Kroll
And imagine acquiring a new language and only learning the words to describe a wonderful world, refusing to know the words for a bleak one and in doing so linguistically shaping the world that you inhabit. -- Rosamund Lupton
The luster of an experience can actually go up with time. So, learning to play a new instrument, learning a new language - those sorts of things will pay dividends for years or decades to come. -- Dan Buettner
Our mouths and bodies speak for us in a new language as the trees shake loose a rain of petals that stick to our slickness like skins we will wear forever. And just like that, I am changed. -- Libba Bray
When I left Barcelona, staying in Spain was an important factor in my decision to join Madrid. I did not have to change country or learn a new language, adopt a different sort of lifestyle, and so on. -- Luis Figo
I was certain about this: In the best new language, there would be no words for me or you. Those words have caused all the trouble started by the old languages. In any new language, there should only be we. -- Andrew Smith
We all need to learn a new language for love - a language that speaks not in socks, pancakes, and paychecks, but in shared fascination with physics or poetry, delight in each other's uniqueness, and mutual practical and emotional support. -- Barbara Sher
A new language always reflects a new point of view, and the gradual unconscious popularization of new words, or of old words used in new ways, is a sure sign of a profound change in people's articulation of the world. -- Allan Bloom
If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he was able to accomplish with art direction, photography, lighting, etc., it is still a gold standard for science fiction. -- Matthew Modine
The beach has a language of its own, with its undulating ribbons of silt, the imponderable hieroglyphs of bird tracks. The receding waves catch on innumerable holes in the sand. Bubbles form and fade. A new language, with a new alphabet... -- Franny Billingsley
Good design, at least part of the time, includes the criterion of being direct in relation to the problem at hand - not obscure, trendy, or stylish. A new language, visual or verbal, must be couched in a language that is already understood. -- Ivan Chermayeff
As with Cesc Fabregas, some players who go and play for foreign clubs improve on a cultural level. It makes them grow on many levels; intellectually, because you have to learn a new language and adapt to another culture, and on a footballing level too. -- Vicente del Bosque
With photography a new language has been created. Now for the first time it is possible to express reality by reality. We can look at an impression as long as we wish, we can delve into it and, so to speak, renew past experiences at will. -- Ernst Haas
I think one thing that has helped me to be an entrepreneur is being an immigrant and coming to the United States. I had to basically build a new life for myself, and adjust very quickly to a new environment, new culture, learn a new language. -- Anousheh Ansari
I've been dealing with pressure all life long. Coming from a very poor family in Haiti, moving to Paris, a new place, a new culture, a new language. I used that pressure to adapt, to do better than everyone else, and I moved around quite a bit as well. -- Jimmy Jean-Louis
The importance of an artist is bringing new signs into a language. -- Steve Sabol
If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language. -- Haruki Murakami
Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. -- James C. Maxwell
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language. -- Gaston Bachelard
It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language. -- Samuel Barnett
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
If our language, our programs, our creations are not strongly present in the new media, the young generation of our country will be economically and culturally marginalized. -- Jacques Chirac
Since at least the Middle Ages, philosophers and philologists have dreamed of curing natural languages of their flaws by constructing entirely new idioms according to orderly, logical principles. -- Joshua Foer
Language, after all, is organic. You can't force words into existence. You can't force new meanings into words. And some words can't or won't or shouldn't be laundered or neutered. Language develops naturally. -- Rabih Alameddine
Language is always evolving. It's difficult to read Shakespeare now because language has shifted. Similarly, kids these days can get to the point really quick in about 140 characters or less because of these new tools. -- Erik Qualman
In general, I agree with Jacob Grimm and feel that we ought to permit changes and uncontrolled growth in language. Even though that also allows potentially threatening new words to develop, language needs the chance to constantly renew itself. -- Gunter Grass
The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it. -- Dennis Ritchie
Science often progresses by carving out new distinctions that refine the fuzzy categories of natural language. -- Stanislas Dehaene
Just the attempt to learn a [new] language is like running different software through the brain. -- Andrew Weil
If you loose the sounds comming out of New Orleans, you loose apart of the american language. -- Ty Pennington
Language is the alchemy of transforming a thought into a word, and the word into a new reality. -- Jennifer Sodini
We can write the new chapters in a visual language whose prose and poetry will need no translation. -- Ernst Haas
Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. -- James C. Maxwell
Air power speaks a strategic language so new that translation into the hackneyed idiom of the past is impossible. -- Alexander P. de Seversky
Texting has added a new dimension to language use, but its long-term impact is negligible. It is not a disaster. -- David Crystal
Each stage of development, remember, has a dialectic of progress--in plain language, every new development is good news, bad news. -- Ken Wilber
I don't want to do an edgy show, I didn't want bad language. I think edginess is the new hackiness. -- Zach Galifianakis
The idea that language can be recombined to create new forms, new things, is of course very old in poetry. -- Michael Helm
Nobody knows everything-one of the pleasures of language is that there is always something new to learn-and everybody makes mistakes. -- Mary Norris
Language was such a profoundly new evolutionary innovation that our brains had to be completely redesigned in order to handle it. -- Leonard Shlain
The new, old, and constantly changing language of politics is a lexicon of conflict and drama?ridicule and reproach?pleading and persuasion. -- William Safire
My favorite three words in the English language are: 'I don't know', because every time I say them, I learn something new. -- Timothy Leary
The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking. -- Deepak Chopra
You've got a new Spanish-language album out now ["90 Millas," released in September of 2007], and the single ["No Llores"] is #1 on the Billboard Latin chart. -- Gloria Estefan
The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art. -- Henri Matisse
'Refudiate,' 'misunderestimate,' 'wee-wee'd up.' English is a living language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. Got to celebrate it!' -- Sarah Palin
New formalism is writing with language as flow, like the flow from a dam, running through a desert that has had no rain for decades. -- Shirley Geok-lin Lim
It's no big deal about how you get language to evolve. You cause language to evolve by saying new and intelligent things to each other. -- Terence McKenna
If I'm going to a new country, I try to learn something about the language and the culture, so I don't just go bumbling over things. -- Maya Angelou
The immense value of becoming acquainted with a foreign language is that we are thereby led into a new world of tradition and thought and feeling. -- Havelock Ellis
The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God. -- Charles Stanley
I don't yet know what style will be required for my next novel, but my sense is that each book will involve a new relationship to language. -- Vivek Shraya
If our language, our programs, our creations are not strongly present in the new media, the young generation of our country will be economically and culturally marginalized." -- Jacques Chirac
Storytelling draws on the magic of language to created Elsewheres. Writers use a linguistic sleight-of-hand to take an attribute, attach them to new objects, and create enchantment. -- Maria Tatar
Then they ask, "Do you want Jesus to come into your heart?" Does it bother anyone that this formula or language is not found in the New Testament? -- Paul Washer
God did not give us the gospel to convince humanity; the gospel was given to us to master the language of a new world called God's Paradise. John 15:16. -- Felix Wantang
I discovered how science is truly a universal language, one that forges new connections among individuals and opens the mind to ideas that go far beyond the classroom. -- Ahmed Zewail
I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to intrigue and hook a reader. -- Dick Schaap
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. -- Carol Ann Duffy
Assange is not a 'journalist' any more than the 'editor' of al-Qaeda's new English-language magazine 'Inspire' is a 'journalist.' He is an anti-American operative with blood on his hands. -- Sarah Palin

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