Language Quotations

Coffee is a language in itself.

When language was not transcendental enough to complete the meaning of a revelation, symbols were relied upon for heavenly teaching, and familiar images, chosen from the known, were made to mirror the unknown spiritual truth.

The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.

After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country.

The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.

When you use the language of 'fact checking' to talk about a film, I think you're sort of fundamentally misunderstanding how art works. You don't fact check Monet's 'Water Lilies.' That's not what water lilies look like; that's what the sensation of experiencing water lilies feel like. That's the goal of the piece.

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.

I'm not trying to stump anybody... it's the beauty of the language that I'm interested in.

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

Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.

Urdu can not die out because it has very strong roots in Persia. The language itself is not only just the language of the Muslims, but it's also the language of the Hindus.

For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language.

The top 10 verbs in the English language are all irregular, even though irregular verbs make up only 3 per cent of the language.

The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language

Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage everywhere. Everyone feels that they are represented by him on the stage.

The world's most famous and popular language is music.

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.

It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.

In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a sort of accompaniment to the signified.

The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing.

Words may be false and full of art; Sighs are the natural language of the heart.

Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the language in which Keats and the rest of them wrote!

Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption.

To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cannot convey the scale of a view that is so stunning it is felt.

Neither Aristotelian nor Russellian rules give the exact logic of any expression of ordinary language; for ordinary language has no exact logic.

Japanese is a very strange foreign language for European people.

Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language.

I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

At the same time, new concepts and abstractions flow into the picture, taking up the task of describing the universe without reference to such time or space - abstractions for which our language lacks adequate terms.

The most meaningless term in the English language is 'I take full responsibility.' When a politician utters those words it means absolutely nothing.

Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction.

I love theater. I also love radio. I love language.

Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.

One advantage of photography is that it's visual and can transcend language.

Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.

It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.

I chose a pseudonym, Chris Marker, pronounceable in most languages, because I was very intent on traveling.

We breathed the air of freedom without knowing the language or any person.

Pop music has greater power to change people and to affect people because it's a universal language. You don't have to understand music to understand the power of a pop song.

It is wrong to use equal language for unequal actions.

Well, language seems to be something that obsesses me. I'm always writing about it.

I grew up with the piano. I learned its language as I learned to speak.

Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head.

Support for alternate languages will largely depend on the underlying OS.

Comedy is inherently subversive because it turns the normal reality on its head. The art form is all about these questions and contradictions. In comedy, we're dealing with language that we all understand, but words can have a dozen other things around them that alter or affect meaning.

I know, for me, that I have always been very conscious of how I dress when I go to the studio, I'm very conscious of my body language when I'm working - a lot of times, I'm the only female in the room. It's a very male-dominated profession. I'm always around guys. Guys are going to try you all day, and they're going to flirt all day.

If someone had protected the HTML language for making Web pages, then we wouldn't have the World Wide Web.

I think one of the best words in the English language is 'compassion.' I think it holds everything. It holds love, it holds care... and if everybody just did something. We all make a difference.

Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.

You who speak languages, you are such liars.

There is a pride in speaking this language.

When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.

No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.

I'm a firm believer that language and how we use language determines how we act, and how we act then determines our lives and other people's lives.

Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.

The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow the order of things.

When I started writing my stories, I thought that not only nobody outside my language, but nobody outside my neighbourhood would get them.

Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.

I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language

There are times when the power of language is not the power that is needed.

Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means.

I learnt to sing in Bengali, my mother tongue, then went on to sing in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati and every possible Indian language.

The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the glow of its life.

Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.

No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.

No matter what your cultural sophistication or what language you speak, everyone can understand images.

To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language.

Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language.

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.

We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has

Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective.

Two races share today the soil of Canada These people had not always been friends. But I hasten to say it There is no longer any family here but the human family. It matters not the language people speak, or the altars at which they kneel.

I avoid all the language and nudity and violence and everything. I have enough of that at home.

Fashion is a language. Some know it, some learn it, some never will - like an instinct.

But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.

The language you are about to hear... is disturbing.

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.

Now the point of comedy is not just looking funny, it's use of language. We have at our disposal a great language... and the imaginative, creative use of that language can be at the service of humour.

Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence.

One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.

Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.

For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not.

My least favorite phrase in the English language is 'I don't care.'

Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.

We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.

Bunny boiler is now part of our language, and I'm proud of that.

If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls.

The Catholic faith never changes. But the language and mode of manifesting this one faith can change according to peoples, times and places.

Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.

I'm very political without being political. I don't know how to speak proper political language.

Love can be understood only "from the inside," as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it.

Words signify man's refusal to accept the world as it is.

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.

Music is its own language - if you don't speak it, it's hard to say what you're trying to do.

Nothing much interested me other than playing with language and telling stories and doing something with the wonders of the world around me.

For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.

Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society.

When you start writing a picture book, you have to write a manuscript that has enough language to prompt the illustrator to get his or her gears running, but then you end up having to cut it out because you don't want any of the language to be redundant to the pictures that are being drawn.