Language Quotes
The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.
Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop.
Every film had its own grammar. And it's your job as a director to basically figure out a language to tell a story.
It might be inevitable that we have to confront the idea that our destiny is to be one world with one language.
A programming language is like a natural, human language in that it favors certain methaphors, images, and ways of thinking.
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.
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
Profanity is the parlance of the fool. Why curse when there is such a magnificent language with which to discourse?
X, n. In our alphabet being a needless letter has an added invincibility to the attacks of the spelling reformers, and like them, will doubtless last as long as the language.
I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language-religion-government-blood-identity in these makes men of one country.
He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.
The English language is like a broad river on whose bank a few patient anglers are sitting, while, higher up, the stream is being polluted by a string of refuse-barges tipping out their muck.
Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor their songs.
That 'simple desire' to share something meant that we could enter the world of language without words, where everything is always clear and there is no danger of being misinterpreted.
It seems clear that the Bible belongs to an area of language in which metaphor is functional, and were we have to surrender precision for flexibility.
By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.
The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. Not just in a 'free beer' kind of way, but also in the free speech kind of way.
There are infinite shadings of light and shadows and colors... it's an extraordinarily subtle language. Figuring out how to speak that language is a lifetime job.
Coincidence is the language of the stars, for something to happen, so many forces have to be put into action.
Those in blue suits who use thinly veiled race symbols -- when they say welfare and crime and three strikes and anti- affirmative action -- they are sending messages more profound their language.
In nine months, a group of children left alone with a computer in any language will reach the same standard as an office secretary in the West.
Being British, I don't really have a way of expressing myself in conversation. Music transcends language.
Words are coin. Words alienate. Language is no medium for desire. Desire is rapture, not exchange.
The other creatures with which we share this world have their rights too, but not speaking our language, they have no voice, no vote; it is our moral duty to take care of them.
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful.
To work our way towards a shared language once again, we must first learn how to discover patterns which are deep, and capable of generating life.
The formation of different languages and of distinct species and the proofs that both have been developed through a gradual process, are curiously parallel.
We're all brothers and sisters. It doesn't matter what language you speak or what color your skin is.
Over, over, there is a soft place in my heart for all that is over, no, for the being over, words have been my only loves, not many.
God speaks in the language you know best - not through your ears, but through your circumstances.
We cannot evolve faster than our language. The edge of being is the edge of meaning, and somehow we have to push the edge of meaning. We have to extend it.
No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality.
The problems of inventing a new language are staggering. But what else can one do if one needs to express one's feeling precisely?
Language is the biggest barrier to human progress because language is an encyclopedia of ignorance. Old perceptions are frozen into language and force us to look at the world in an old fashioned way.
The English language on her tongue became a smoke-screen, without her eyes changing expression in the least.