Language Quotes
About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.
The language of faith is crucial because it affords human beings the privilege of intimacy with the ultimate.
It is impossible to disassociate language from science...To call forth a concept, a word is needed.
Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
Music is essentially an emotional language, so you want to feel something from the relationships and build music based on those feelings.
Sexist language, racist language, theistic language - all are typical of the policing languages of mastery, and cannot, do not, permit new knowledge or encourage the mutual exchange of ideas.
I would love to learn other languages, maybe French? My uncle speaks German so maybe also German? Chinese seems to be too difficult.
To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language.
We didn't say anything because there was such an awful lot to say, and no language to say it in.
People who passionately want to believe that the world is basically simple react to this with a fury that goes beyond what I consider appropriate for discussing a programming language.
If you're prepared to invest in a company, then you ought to be able to explain why in simple language that a fifth grader could understand, and quickly enough so the fifth grader won't get bored.
The Christian "doctrines" are translations into our concepts and ideas of that which God has already expressed in language more adequate, namely the actual incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection
Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it.
No one questions the fact that verbal language has to be learned, but the commonplaceness of visual experience betrays art; people tend to assume that, because they can see, they can see art.
But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.
The language of love letters is the same as suicide notes.
In many ways, religion comes from the same place in us that art comes from. The language of the human heart if poetry
I got my dog back, in African-American language, your dog means your passion, your fire.
There is Indian time and white man's time. Indian time means never looking at the clock. ... There is not even a word for time in our language.
There's almost no content in terms of language at all. I don't like using language to convey meaning. I'd rather use images and music.
How do I know the Bible isn't the word of God? Well if it was the word of God it would be clear and easy to understand...considering God was the creator of LANGUAGE!
If you know how to handle the verbs, you know how to handle the language. Everything else is just vocabulary.
Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb.
Rhetoric, which is the use of language to inform or persuade, is very important in shaping public opinion. We are very easily fooled by language and how it is used by others.
Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.
Unkind language is sure to produce the fruits of unkindness--that is, suffering in the bosom of others.
Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.