Language Quotations | Page 2

I was also in love with the English language.

Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis good works make the man.

Chemical compounds of carbon can exist in an infinite variety of compositions, forms and sizes. The naturally occurring organic substances are the basis of all life on Earth, and their science at the molecular level defines a fundamental language of that life.

The government that governs from afar absolutely requires that the truth and the facts reach its knowledge by every possible channel, so that it may weigh and estimate them better, and this need increases when a country like the Philippines is concerned, where the inhabitants speak and complain in a language unknown to the authorities.

I've never been one to throw clubs, break clubs, or use bad language on the golf course. I've played with golfers who've done that, and I really hate to see it. If I did something like that, my dad would come get the putter and hit me upside the head with it. I knew better.

Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around.

Any friendship or relationship is about a language.

Language is much closer to film than painting is.

When the heart speaks, its language is the same under all latitudes.

It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word.

There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.

Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.

England gave me a language and literature, the basis of what I am as a writer, but when I started writing more directly about my own experience, it wasn't England so much as what went before.

Loving your language means a command of its vocabulary beyond the level of the everyday.

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

The only way to learn a language properly, in fact, is to marry a man of that nationality. You get what they call in Europe a 'sleeping dictionary.' Of course, I have only been married five times, and I speak seven languages. I'm still trying to remember where I picked up the other two.

Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.

An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.

My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.

A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens.

Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of languages.

No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.

What is it that really makes us, us? It's our collective intelligence. It's our ability to write things down, our language and our consciousness.

God has stated in clear and concise language how He created the universe and we ought not to doubt His Word.

More scientific language and less diplomatic rhetoric may make this world even better.

Lyrical poetry is not a big part of most people's lives. Twitter now becomes an interesting way of getting cared for language into people's space. Because there is something deep inside of us that responds to cared for language, whether it's literary, poetry, or really good lyrics in a song.

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.

No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality.

What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same.

People in day-to-day life tend to skim the surface of things and be polite and careful, and that's not the language I speak. I like talking about feelings, fears and memories, anguish and joy, and I find it in music.

Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.

Less is always more. The best language is silence. We live in a time of a terrible inflation of words, and it is worse than the inflation of money.

The language of America changed with the election of Bill Clinton, because with all due respect to my friends on the Republican side, Bill Clinton is the best communicator of the last 50 years. He felt your pain.

All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care.

French is a language that makes those who speak it both calm and dynamic.

Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground.

I would have thought it possible to choose delegates for these larger conferences who, even if they could not speak the principal languages, could at least understand them or could have friends seated beside them who could keep them informed on essential points.

Do not be troubled for a language, cultivate your soul and she will show herself.

Naturally, my body language changes given whatever environment I'm in.

I have never designed a language for its own sake.

All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.

Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.

It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning.

A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.

Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.

Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt.

If you listen to a language for 15 minutes, you know the rhythm and song.

If French is no longer the language of a power, it can be the language of a counter power.

Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study of language.

So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.

We need only look to our Navajo Code Talkers during World War II to see the value that Native languages bring not only to their culture, but to the security of all Americans.

Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there was a further acceleration of time and the rate of change.

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.

Abraham, a simple farmer, at a word from the Invisible God, marched, with family and stock, through the terrible desert to a distant land to live among a people whose language he could neither speak nor understand! Not bad, that!

In our daily lives as programmers, we process text strings a lot. So I tried to work hard on text processing, namely the string class and regular expressions. Regular expressions are built into the language and are very tuned up for use.

Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.

Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively.

I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.

I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.

As thy days, so shall thy strength be which, in modern language, may be translated as thy thoughts so shall thy life be.

Parallel cinema has not made an effort to communicate in a language the other person understands.

The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it.

It's perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific. The theory of that genetic component, whatever it turns out to be, is what is called universal grammar.

I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I've finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a single sentence that closely resembles the sentence I first set down. I just find that I have to keep zapping and zapping the English language until it starts to behave in some way that vaguely matches my intentions.

At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language.

Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.

Music is not supposed to be nationalist. It is supposed to surpass language barriers. It is about generations communicating with each other.

Afrikaans is my first language, although you would never know, as my English accent has more of an American-British thing going on from all my years of travelling.

Well it is sometimes difficult to act in another language

I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action...

I'm not trying to be a poet on Twitter; I'm trying to be aware of the fact that a very simple sentence, well written, can have a very moving effect without that person knowing why. There's a deep genetic part of you that somehow, even without your permission, recognizes good language when it arrives.

We must examine then the concerns of the Government of Japan about the language of the treaty itself - of SOFA - and of the interim and further arrangements that have been made since 1995, and see whether or not we need to make any changes. Those are decisions I cannot make.

The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.

When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It's nourishing; it's rejuvenating.

There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.

The very special place that a language occupies among institutions is undeniable, but there is much more to be said-, a comparison would tend rather to bring out the differences.

The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.

Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries.

I am attached to the French language. I will defend the ubiquitous use of French.

Writers let themselves be enticed by the language.

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.

Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish writers who write in German.

The more languages you know, the less likely you are to become a terrorist.

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.

What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.

Historically and culturally, New York City and our entire nation simply would not be the same without the infusion of Asian traditions. Whether it is food, art, language or any other facet of cultural life, Asian Americans have made our city and our country stronger and richer.

You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn't have any kind of discussion without permission, without a legal framework behind it.

Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.

I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining

The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened.

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.

At Ungaro, I discovered the flou and the language of Paris.