Language Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Magic and art tend to share a lot of the same language. They both talk about evocation, invocation, and conjuring.

I appreciate people who try and use language in an interesting way.

Based on our natural heritage as the Divine Light of God, every one of us possesses intuition... defined as the language of the soul.

All too often, when people don't know where they are, have jet lag, don't speak the language, and can't figure out the money or maintain intestinal regularity, they get hostile.

Language that tells us, through a more or less emotional reaction, something that can not be said.

If you give someone Fortran, he has Fortran. If you give someone Lisp, he has any language he pleases

It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.

C++ is the only current language making COBOL look good

Amid chaos of images, we value coherence. We believe in the printed word. And we believe in clarity. And we believe in immaculate syntax. And in the beauty of the English language.

Learning through the arts reinforces critical academic skills in reading, language arts and math, and provides students with the skills to creatively solve problems.

I have never designed a language for its own sake.

Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because they won't get it later on.

The United States is enriched by many cultures, and united by a single common language.

The ten most powerful two-letter words in the English language are: If it is to be, it is up to me.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

Language should fulfill your individual existence as a wholesome human being... Language should be more than just getting by.

The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.

The most difficult step in the study of language is the first step.

No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.

Past, present and future are not amenities of language. Time unfolds into the seamsof being. It passes through you, making and shaping.

English has more flexibility. It's a very plastic, very shapeable, very expressive language. In that sense it feels quite natural.

If we had the right words, if we had the language, we would need no weapons.

I'm glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility. (U.S. poet and writer, 1943- )

That's why so many people want to play Hamlet: because it's a completely demarked role, and the actor playing it has to be prepared, through the language, to allow the audience to see into who he is.

I have found the game to be, in all factualness, a universal language wherever I traveled at home or abroad.

Mathematics is the language in which the gods talk to people.

The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.

You may translate books of science exactly. ... The beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written.

There are men whose language is strong and defying enough, yet their eyes and their actions ask leave of other men to live.

Why would you have a language that is not theoretically exciting? Because it's very useful.

As is the case with all good things in life - love, good manners, language, cooking - personal creativity is required only rarely.

Making the simple complicated is commonplace.

Its very variety, subtlety, and utterly irrational, idiomatic complexity makes it possible to say things in English which simply cannot be said in any other language.

Affection is one of the most neglected words in the English language, that people throw the word love around like confetti when they mean affection.

Love can be understood only "from the inside," as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it.

The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages.

What the eye sees is a synthesis of who you are and all you have learned. This is what I would call the language of photography.

They place great stress on the clarity of our language for expressing nuances and showing subtleties.

Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.

I do not know if there is a more dreadful word in the English language than that word "lost."

Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.

Many words are in a state of mutation, the pronunciation being unsettled even in the best society, a result that must often arise where language is as variable and undetermined as the English.

When your language is nowhere near Turing-complete, syntactic sugar can be your friend.

Sign language is the equal of speech, lending itself equally to the rigorous and the poetic, to philosophical analysis or to making love.

We must be capable of speaking a language of peace, but not one of surrender.