Language Quotes
Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the last place where I hear women's hair rhapsodically described, women's faces acclaimed in odelike language.
People who are cognitively busy are also more likely to make selfish choices, use sexist language, and make superficial judgments in social situations.
If you care about being thought credible and intelligent, do not use complex language where simpler language will do.
Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.
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.
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.
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 poem in the head is always perfect. Resistance begins when you try to convert it into language.
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.
Music is the universal language no matter the country we are born in or the color of our skin. Bring us all together.
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.
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.
I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.
The more words I have, the more distinct, precise my perceptions become--and such lucidity is a form of joy.
A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.
I'm not trying to stump anybody... it's the beauty of the language that I'm interested in.
It might be inevitable that we have to confront the idea that our destiny is to be one world with one language.
Every film had its own grammar. And it's your job as a director to basically figure out a language to tell a story.
Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop.
I hope to see Ruby help every programmer in the world to be productive, and to enjoy programming, and to be happy. That is the primary purpose of Ruby language.
If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls.
A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
Over the years, I've trained myself to speak using the same language I would use if I were typing: meaning using full sentences in the way that paragraphs and scenes are arranged.
Colors do not exist separately and independently within nature; they are constantly shifting in response to subtle gradations of light. It is language that, magnificently, gives them clear shape.
A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.
When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of Silence.
The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.
Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage everywhere. Everyone feels that they are represented by him on the stage.
Heard about the young deaf boy who used sign language-One day he told his mother a dirty joke and she washed his hands out with soap
No statement about God is simply, literally true. God is far more than can be measured, described, defined in ordinary language, or pinned down to any particular happening.
Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say,"God, he said exactly what I was thinking." And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.
The functional language is a radically anti-historical language: operational rationality has little room and little use for historical reason.