Language Quotes

Style is just an impression. Style itself is hollow. Style, its ok style as long as it is part of a language. Style for style itself is just something very hollow.

Programming languages, like pizzas, come in only too sizes; too big and too small.

Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own.

Musicians can travel all over the world and have an audience, because there's no language barrier.

At night, I open the window and ask the moon to come and press its face against mine. Breathe into me. Close the language-door and open the love-window. The moon won't use the door, only the window.

Language does our thinking for us.

The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second.

I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.

My first language is Gaelic.

Speech is the best show a man puts on.

Compassion is for the very strong. Compassion does not come to the weak. People who are unkind, bullies, use rude language, are not strong people. They are very weak people.

In JavaScript, there is a beautiful, elegant, highly expressive language that is buried under a steaming pile of good intentions and blunders.

In language clarity is everything.

You follow words of the toga (language of the cultivated class). [Lat., Verba togae sequeris.]

Most Americans have parents or grandparents who immigrated to this country, and we know the hardships they faced, from learning the language to dealing with prejudice.

Of all social institutions language is least amenable to initiative. It blends with the life of society, and the latter, inert by nature, is a prime conservative force.

Your body language shapes who you are

If God had so wished, he would have made all Indians speak with one language ... the unity of India has been and shall always be a unity in diversity.

silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.

Reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought. . . . life precedes love, bodily matter precedes the body, and one day in its turn language shall have preceded possession of silence.

It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is.

The dictionary is, however, only a rough draft.

Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.

There are all kinds of symbols. Verbal language is only one. Sometimes by opening our mouths, we make dreadful errors. It's often so much nicer just to look at somebody and vibrate.

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.

It was a revelation for me, in a practical sense, that you could write in an African language and still reach an audience beyond that language through the art of translation.

Artists should never look at pictures, but should stutter in a language of their own.

The substance of the winds is too thin for human eyes, their written language is too difficult for human minds, and their spoken language mostly too faint for the ears.

Music is the universal language no matter the country we are born in or the color of our skin. Bring us all together.

Congratulations, Congress! 77% disapproval rating! You may be about to become the English language's most offensive C-word.

This evolution may compromise Java's claim of being simpler than C++, but my guess is that the effort will make Java a better language than it is today.

The poem in the head is always perfect. Resistance begins when you try to convert it into language.

People use location as a language in films, and Quentin uses action as a language in his films. There's really not a lot of violence. It's more of an emotional beat than it is a physical beat

The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity is of wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin and more exquisitely refined than either.

When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.

Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.

We who write in English are fortunate to have the richest and most versatile language in the world. Respect it.

No language on earth speaks as comprehensively as photography, always providing that we follow the chemical and optic and physical path to demonstrable truth, and understand physiognomy.

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.

I realized with grief that purposeless activities in language arts are probably the burial grounds of language development and that coffins can be found in most classrooms, including mine.

Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage and delight the inner ear.

Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.

Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.

Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.

The name of a person you love is more than language.

Language becomes a prison house only poets can escape...if we do not reject any strict distinctions between ordinary usage and figures of speech.

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.

I am convinced that music really is the universal language of beauty which can bring together all people of good will on earth

Religion is the life of India, religion is the language of this country, the symbol of all its movements.

As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene.