Language Quotations | Page 5

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language.

Language is a window into human nature, but it is also a fistula, an open wound through which we're exposed to an infectious world.

Love will find its way through all languages on its own.

Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.

I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators 'the haute couture of language.'

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.

Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.

I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

We use so much bad language that it forms a barrier between ourselves and the truth.

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.

Human language... prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.

When you work in a different language you are not so attached to the words.

Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.

In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system.

I would love to learn other languages, maybe French? My uncle speaks German so maybe also German? Chinese seems to be too difficult.

Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.

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

Representative institutions are as much a part of the true Briton as his language and his literature.

You know, you can make a small mistake in language or etiquette in Britain, or you could when I was younger, and really be made to feel it, and it's the flick of a lash, but it would sting, and especially at school where there's not much privacy, and so on. You could, yes, undoubtedly be made to feel crushed.

On the day of the show, I sit down with someone that speaks very good English and someone who speaks the local language very well and work out what I'm going to say.

Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.

Although I'm not fluent in sign language by a long way, I could have a fairly decent conversation.

Language is too complex for a computer to understand. It's not going to be able to make sense of what people are saying en masse. We need a new type of discipline that puts together computer scientists and social scientists, who can add context to the situation.

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.

I like to be in a European city where I can speak my language.

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.

In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously.

My language and my sensibility are yearning to admit a kind of religious or transcendent dimension. But then there's the reality: there's no Heaven, no afterlife of the sort we were promised, and no personal God.

Even so, sometimes I wish I did have a little bit more flair in my language.

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Humans are crude linguists from the moment of birth - and perhaps even in the womb - to the extent at least that we can hear spoken sounds and begin to recognize different combinations of language sounds.

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

We inhabit a language rather than a country.

Open Graph is a language for structuring content and sharing that goes on in other apps, and we're continuing to build it out longer term. But we found we need to build more specific experiences around categories like music or movies. Where we've taken the time to build those specific experiences, stuff has gone quite well.

Dance music is no longer a simple Donna Summer beat. It's become a whole language that I find fascinating and exciting. Eventually, it will lose the dance tag and join the fore of rock.

I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English.

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.

I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.

I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.

The language of all the interpretations, the translations, of the Judaic Bible and the Christian Bible, is musical, just wonderful. I read the Bible to myself; I'll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.

More questionably, the book does not touch upon the computer language Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), despite it's centrality for doing advanced work in Access.

Music deserves to be the mandatory second language of all schools in the world.

Music is the beginning of language to all humans. African Americans' music, in particular, harks back to a common sort of ancestry. It is a global kind of language: You don't need to understand English to understand blues or jazz.

One of the problems, as you know, is that the Chinese language is not as nuanced as others for dealing with the difference between state and country.

One of the joys of the English language is that you can play around with the meaning of words. I don't think it works so well in Spanish.

One of the Microsoft representatives in attendance admitted that unilateral language extensions would be detrimental and said that Microsoft 'wouldn't be cowboys' by unilaterally introducing such extensions in their implementation of Java.

On Sunday (Jan. 22) afternoon we received reports from voters saying they got a negative voice message. The calls solely talked about Tony, using intense language - it was a negative personal attack.

On the broader scale, we hope this event will contribute to their lifetime learning. It's becoming very important to know a foreign language in this world.

I would refer you to the language of the law, ... It depends on the circumstances.

I wouldn't say that Mac OS X is a make or break product for Apple, but it's close. But it can move Apple into spaces where it's not been, or been strong, before. At MYOB, we look at our job as being translators: translating the language of business into the language of accounting. We need to use tools given to us by the authors of operating systems. The Mac side and OS X gives us a tool set that lets us do our jobs as translators better than any other tool set on the planet. It's up to us to use those tools to move up to the next level.

When the internal crisis of the totalitarian system grows so deep that it becomes clear to everyone, and when more and more people learn to speak their own language and reject the hollow, mendacious language of the powers that be, it means that freedom is remarkably close, if not directly within reach,

My father isn't affected by too many things but even he couldn't stand the language. It's definitely not for everyone.

My family are really enjoying living in London. My daughter and my son are speaking English very well. Better than me. They are only four and five. I like London. My first year was difficult because of the language and not being able to speak it very well. When you can speak, it is very easy to live here.

show us that sport unites by overriding national, political, religious and language barriers.

Some new language has been added to these laws, and it will be up to the prosecutors in each county to relate to each agency how he or she interprets these laws.

Some cities and counties have included language that if you exceed expectations for an entire year, then another year is added to the contract.

One of our best managers, her second language is English. We needed her to get better at English to be able to leave her alone in the restaurant. I heard somebody compliment her today on her English.

One out of four students that we have in the county schools speak another first language. It's helpful to have bilingual teachers to be able to communicate with parents. In some cases, the students may speak English but the parents may or may not speak English. And it's critical to communicate with the parents.

One who in a crisis forgets nautical language and shouts: 'For God's sake turn left!'

One article that says privacy will be protected is not enough. We want clear language in each article stating privacy is important. National governments will pick and choose. They will go to wire-tapping first and get to Article 15 later.

No one likes to be ticketed for double-parking. That is no excuse for you to tolerate columnist Carmine Santa Maria's use of profanity and otherwise vulgar and disrespectful language in excoriating traffic enforcement agents who do their duty.

No one respected language more than Nabokov, ... it's such a great work is because it has such great depth. ... It's endlessly revealing. And that's what the finest fiction should be.

No one respected language more than Nabokov. You don't read it for his ideas, you read it for his presentation.

One thing we need to watch is that he doesn't keep the screws on too tight and go overboard with these hikes. Everybody was looking for some language that would suggest a pause near these levels.

Maybe (Axelrod) thought I was going to slap him, because he knows that's the kind of language you get slapped for. And he grabbed my wrist.

My father did not want us to have an accent. It was a different era than it is today, where having a second language is a competitive advantage.

Poetry is a double-edged sword. You learn to use language at its most intense - but this is far too intense for prose fiction. I've been teaching myself to progressively strip the 'poetry' away - the bulk of The Architect is told in very simple prose.

Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement. . . says heaven and earth in one word. . . speaks of himself and his predicament as though for the first time. It has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time.

Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement... says heaven and earth in one word... speaks of himself and his predicament as though for the first time. It has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.

Policy makers want to make sure in the language of their statement that whatever they do, it's meant as insurance -- they don't want to create alarm about the state of the economy, but they also don't want to create alarm in the bond market about the end of accommodative policy,

Perhaps you must have noticed that everyone's language has changed after my resignation.

Nothing is done until the language is fully reviewed,

Obviously he's a load. There's no question about that. He's way beyond his years in maturity. You watch him and you watch his body language and his facial expressions and you can tell the confidence that he plays with. But the thing that amazes me is his team has so much confidence in him.

Now, we are already in the process of developing tests that measure students' ability at different grade levels in reading, language arts and math.

Philosophers ruin language, poets ruin logic, but with human reasoning alone man will never make it through life.

Pfizer is using curious language to describe 2006, saying 'while we are pleased that 2005 exceeded previous expectations, investors should be aware that the factors driving performance may differ materially in 2006. We are not sure what to make of this choice of words.

People will be told it features graphic content and adult language,

People will enjoy it. It was written in the 1980s, so it uses everyday language and a contemporary setting. It isn't as heavy as some farces, which speak in flowery verse. There are some hilarious moments and interesting characters.

RIBROASTER, n. Censorious language by oneself concerning another. The word is of classical refinement, and is even said to have been used in a fable by Georgius Coadjutor, one of the most fastidious writers of the fifteenth century --commonly, indeed, regarded as the founder of the Fastidiotic School.

Right now computing can be hard. Machine language is somewhat inaccessible. And Basic is not quite so bad, but it still blows some people away.

My friend growing up, both of her parents are deaf, so I've always been interested. Through research, children at this age know what they want to say but don't have the language skills to say it yet. The signing bridges that gap and allows them to let their needs be known before they're able to tell us.

My love of reading and the English language is something given to me by my parents, and I've passed it on to my children.

I'd just come to L.A., I'm in a foreign country, and I just opened my mouth and started singing. I could see an image in my head and write in whatever language that appeared to me.

I didn't like his body language out there.

I didn't like the aura of our body language on the court. We seemed that we were getting defeated, and even though the game was a large margin, we didn't play smart basketball. We're just trying to get these guys to understand that's not how you go out.

Idiom is larger than geography; it is the hot breath of a people singing, slashing, explorative. Imagery becomes the magic denominator, the language of a passage, saying the ancient unchanging particulars.

If they're not happy with this new bill, then they need to become a legal citizen in my opinion. That is, learn our history, learn our government, learn our language and constitution and the American creed.

Language grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences. 828

You have to be mad in the language you're mad in.

Last year was like a different language. This year we all knew what we were doing.