Language Quotes

I'm no linguist, but I have been told that in the Russian language, there isn't even a word for freedom.

There's a reason prophets perform miracles; language lacks the power to describe faith.

I'm a child myself, in the sense that I'm still looking. Children are fascinated by black holes and ask me questions. I find they soon get the idea if it is explained in nontechnical language.

True creativity often starts where language ends.

While I admire the insights of many of the people in the world of computing, I get this cold feeling that I speak a different language.

One way to prevent conversation from being boring is to say the wrong thing.

Watching my daughter sort of live in this world where a photograph is not something to keep a memory. It's something to just speak with. It's language.

Language is by its very nature a communal thing.

How quickly a zek (a prisoner) gets cheeky-or, putting it in literary language, how quickly a man's requirements grow.

Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves.

If Language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant. If what is said is not what is meant, then what ought to be done, remains undone.

The idea of morphology of languages is something that I'm really interested in.

Each stage of development, remember, has a dialectic of progress--in plain language, every new development is good news, bad news.

If language were liquid, it would be rushing in. Instead here we are in a silence more eloquent than any word could ever be.

When I hear real faithful people - whether it's a real Christian, or a real Buddhist, or a real Muslim - I hear them use the language I use for a friend. So my metaphor for God is friend.

FORTRAN was the language of choice for the same reason that three-legged races are popular.

The English language is nobody's special property.

Language has multiple uses, and is embedded in different forms of life. It is not necessary to have this grand concept of "humanity" in order to behave decently.

Language should almost break up or explode in its fruitless effort to contain so many meanings.

What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same.

It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish.

Math is my favorite subject. It's the universal language. I like the fact that wherever you go in the whole world, two plus two will still be four.

We should never lower our dignity by lowering our language.

In this respect, I suppose I'm the total opposite of Garry [Kasparov]. With his very emotive body language at the [chess]board he shows and displays all his emotions. I don't.

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

...language is not the frosting, it's the cake.

The folktale is the primer of the picture-language of the soul.

The affectation of some late authors to introduce and multiply cant words is the most ruinous corruption in any language.

Profanity is filthiness. A person is known as much by his language as he is by the company he keeps...Filthiness in any form is degrading and soul-destroying and should be avoided.

I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath.

I co-founded Duolingo with the mission of bringing free language education to the world.

We like to think we live in daylight, but half the world is always dark, and fantasy, like poetry, speaks the language of the night.

Every culture has contributed to maths just as it has contributed to literature. It's a universal language; numbers belong to everyone.

I am under the spell of language, which has ruled me since I was 10.

It's [the word “sorry”] the most infuriating word in the English language. Just a cheap way to behave badly then shelve responsibility by putting the onus on the other person to be forgiving.

Human language is local and changeable, and is therefore incapable of being used as the means of unchangeable and universal information.

To every obstacle oppose patience, perseverance and soothing language.

We can only converse if we can speak the same language. So if we are going to build One Nation, we need to start with everyone in Britain knowing how to speak English.

Scrape the surface of language, and you will behold interstellar space and the skin that encloses it.

I gave one permaculture course in Botswana, and now my students are out in the bloody desert in Namibia teaching Bushmen - whose language nobody can speak - to be very good permaculture people.

The mind is like a computer. It runs programs. Most of the software has been poorly written. It is written in the language of fear.

I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.

Finnish is not a language, it is a way of setting at the end of the bench with your fur cap pulled over your ears.

Translation presents not merely a paradigm but the utmost case of engaged literary interpretation

Earth is a place where language has literally become alive. Language has infested matter; it is replicating and defining and building itself. And it is in us.

Since an attitude is often expressed by our body language and by the looks on our faces, it can be contagious.

However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.

The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational. That's just a part of the language of jazz - at a certain point.

Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.

If a person plays dissonance long enough, it will sound like consonance. It's a language that was alien and then it's less and less alien as it continues to live.