Language Quotations | Page 8

True enough that standards bodies themselves have weak teeth, but they do have influence and importance when a language begins to be widely used.

Today's students are more global in their perspective, taking Spanish and even Mandarin Chinese, as part of attaining a well-rounded education. That's a wise move considering the likelihood they will supervise, or be supervised by, someone whose first language isn't English.

We came out of the gate intuitively thinking that you have to be local to connect with the audience. That it wasn't only about the language and the music, but sensibility...even though the brand can be the same everywhere.

We were having a discussion about language barriers and how we could eliminate them. We decided that this would be a good way to help with that barrier.

When I first talked about writing with Saul he insisted on the ability to change, to get a serious grip on what was real in your life, ... He was the 20th century's literary wizard, who fused the intellect and the imagination in glorious and comic language that we'd never heard before.

Unfortunately, the literature provides little guidance on which interventions, and under which circumstances, best reduce language barriers.

We are delighted to set up our European regional HR BPO operations in Krakow. There are strong economic, cultural and language connections between Poland, Germany and other European countries, so we expect the Krakow center to serve as an attractive resource for our global and European clients.

We are in discussion with them as to what that language really means.

Thoughts hardly to be packed / Into a narrow act, / Fancies that broke through language and escaped.

The art of the past no longer exists as it once did. Its authority is lost. In its place there is a language of images. What matters now is who uses that language for what purpose.

Theater is about language, so characters have to define themselves through language for an audience.

We have all this information that tells us when we learn something new, like a new language or a new instrument, we get the biggest bang and the brain grows.

Voting is the language of our democracy, ... And, regrettably, when it mattered most on Election Day, real people lost real opportunities to speak truth to power at the ballot box. This must never occur again if we can do anything to stop it.

Using bad language while promising to restore dignity to the White House is a contradiction that will hurt him in a tiny, modest way.

Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.

We have undertaken the most vigorous enforcement of the language minority provisions of the Voting Rights Act in its history.

I was quite frank in trying to explain why they're so radioactive with some elements in Washington, and why some of the language they've used in the past might set off some sparks here.

The algorithm -- the computational method -- for language learning and processing that we have developed can take a body of text, abstract from it a collection of recurring patterns or rules and then generate new material,

The algorithm the computational method for language learning and processing that we have developed can take a body of text, abstract from it a collection of recurring patterns or rules and then generate new material,

The academy will focus on reading, math, language arts, science and cutting-edge technology. Special attention will be afforded to critical thinking, problem-solving and employment skills.

Will you let me talk? I'll have to learn the language all over again!

Will you, my countrymen, the descendants of these men, warmed by their blood, inheriting their language, and having the principles for which they struggled confided to your care, allow them to be violated in your hands?

Most Iraqis are really cool people. I picked up some of their language. There are good and bad people everywhere. So many people there lived under fear. They distrust the military because it's scary for them.

We invent the world through language. The world occurs through language.

We just went through some of our unresolved language items. I think we got most of them resolved. We're going to work on it a little more (today).

We get to talk because we speak the same language,

Understanding that these statements do not represent reality, we should not be threatened by the language that he has used,

Unlike a lot of American specialists in the Middle East, who did one Fulbright year and now find their language is rusty, I kept up my Arabic.

Language because of our deep inner need to complain....

The usual terminology of political language is stupid. What is 'left' and what is 'right'? Why should Hitler be 'right' and Stalin, his temporary friend, be 'left'? Who is 'reactionary' and who is 'progressive'? Reaction against an unwise policy is not to be condemned. And progress towards chaos is not to be commended.

We have now agreed upon the language and the finer points,

While at times the language used was sexual and graphic in nature, the relationship was one of complete fantasy, involving only protected speech.

We do have some concerns about the ambiguity of the language.

You absorb a few losses in a row and spirits start to sink a little bit. Body language starts to change, so the kids left there happy and have, I hope, a little bit better sense of how to play a complete game.

Whoever can create that incredibly simple-to-use, menu-driven configuration for creation and editing of filters for end users is going to win, regardless of whether they're using a common programming language designed specifically for e-mail filtering.

We were used to the phone and time differences because of our Japan team. As we looked toward integration, we were starting with two teams that didn't speak the same language and were very far apart.

We are told that the keeping alive a language spoken by so small a number of the community is a barrier to progress.

We wanted to move beyond toe-dipping and really dive in. Almost half of the 41 million Hispanics in this country watch only or mostly Spanish language television, and we want to bring that audience to ABC.

We have a gentleman who does nothing but special writing. Those are the letters that require original language tailored to the author. We have a woman who does nothing but children's letters. She's learned to write like a child, in the voice of a governor, and they send him the neatest things.

We've marched down the field and are inside the 10-yard line. The speaker is increasingly confident we can hammer the language on an agreement soon.

That?s the language that will be put in front of them, though the board may want to tweak that name. Different groups may get into it in more detail, and there may be a tweak here or there to change the nomenclature. All indications are that it will be supported.

What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things.

Languages are true analytical methods.

It is impossible to disassociate language from science...To call forth a concept, a word is needed.

Body language is so important, as is composition. You can not say something, and then the body reacts, and it says a lot of things dialogue can also say.

The product definitely looks a lot stronger then Cannes. There are many more English-language movies with casts, ... Super Size Me.

The eye-exam language creates a financial barrier to enter the public-school system and may bar some children from exercising their constitutional right to attend school.

Body language is more powerful than words.

What we do is also cultivate a so-called connections business, where you really have to know a lot of people and where you have to understand them. You have to speak their language and I think you have to have a certain passion for that.

The pool is a great mixer. Children don't care where you're from or what language you speak as long as they can splash you.

We decided, OK, we're going to look at the scene every time before we shoot it, ... And Vince and I went, and we looked, and literally down to the body language of when he hands her the pen, how she ducks in from the rain, how she turns to walk out the door, whether she turns to the left or turns to the right. I wanted to hold my purse the same way, to show how specific you can get, and how different it will be, according to what the mind of a person is.

The only usefulness of a map or a language depends on the similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map-languages.

There are some parallels in the sense that the (USA) Patriot Act represents some retrenchment of our civil liberties and free speech. It is not as raw and blatant as the Sedition Act, but it represents an effort by government and the Congress to bolster security at the price of liberty - not just the Patriot Act, but the language and rhetoric and debate over who is more patriotic.

We decide certain words aren't so bad anymore. It's reflected in our everyday language use.

There are moments in life that are beyond language,

There are no clear boundary lines between what is physiological, what is psychological, and what is spiritual. Those are language domains that make sense and have integrity but overlap significantly.

What we really concentrate on is the language that people need materials on in Marshalltown, which is Spanish. We also have a lot of bilingual materials.

Language helps develp life as surely as it reflects life. It is a most important part of our human condition.

We're able to capture them at that early stage and to provide them with a way to develop language as typically developing kids do. They're actually learning words faster than we would see with typical kids.

We read any change in language as more likely to generate a slower pace of tightening than a speeding up in tightening to 50-basis-point increments.

that your power of command with simple language was one of the magnificent things of our century. (from the poem: result)

If I do not speak in a language that can be understood there is little chance for a dialogue.

Like desire, language disrupts, refuses to be contained within boundaries.

Language is also a place of struggle.

I believe so deeply in the primacy of language, in lifting your prose to the highest level you're capable of and making your words symphonic.

And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.

There are things I read doing research, and there are certain books and writers I just love to read. There are books of Brian Morten's that I love, for instance. There's a wonderful book by an Australian writer named Helen Garner called 'The Children's Bach,' and I just love the way she uses language in it.

Look, lady I only speak two languages: English and Bad English!

We have hired employment lawyers to come up with model language for contracts. We are hopeful this will be emulated by others in the industry.

We have a really excellent collection. I've been told that we have the best Spanish language collection of any library in the state. But that was a couple of years ago and some have probably caught up with us.

We live in America, anyone that lives here should be able to understand 6th grade English or read at a 5th grade level. What is the difference what language the test is in? It's the same test. As it is students that speak perfect English and can read are failing. What do we do for them?

We're guardedly happy. Meanwhile, we'll go on with our mission as before: training language students. We did it yesterday, we're doing it today and we'll do it tomorrow.

We are terribly saddened that a government and country that we have regarded as a neighbor, ... friend should use such language against a neighbor which is quite clearly in their mind, Pakistan.

It's amazing. The moment you show cash, everyone knows your language.

Lately, I feel like my life is a book written in a language I don't know how to read.

Learn your language well and command it well, and you will have the first component to life.

Speaking of Sir Winston Churchill: He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.

Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations.

You cannot write in more than one language. Words don't come out as well.

You need a team that speaks your language.

We are obliged to steal pieces of language, both visual and textual.

I've always been very tied to language.

Where Nature's end of language is declin'd, And men talk only to conceal the mind.

There is case after case on the books that have upheld the validity of flood exclusion language, exactly the language Mr. Scruggs is contesting.

My stories do have plot. They're not just scattered language; they're controlled, toward an end.

At every moment where language can't go, that's your mind.

People who cannot distinguish between good and bad language, or who regard the distinction as unimportant, are unlikely to think carefully about anything else.

Language that tells us, through a more or less emotional reaction, something that can not be said.

The only living language is the language in which we think and have our being.

[Y]ou possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.

French was my first language.

Learn to feel sorry for music because, although it is the international language, it has no swear words.

Politically correct is the language of cowardice.

Russian is a very deceptive language, because it looks easy at first: it's like setting out for a gentle stroll and realizing that you've committed yourself to scaling Himalayan peaks.

Poems' deep work is a matter of language, but also a matter of life. One part of that work is to draw into our awareness and into language itself the unobvious and the unexpected.

They took away our land, our language, and our religion; but they could never harness our tongues...

As humans we speak one language...

As we said in the preface to the first edition, C "wears well as one's experience with it grows." With a decade more experience, we still feel that way.

Of all the words in all languages I know, the greatest concentration is in the English word I.

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.