Language Quotes

Words, too, have genuine substance -- mass and weight and specific gravity.

I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.

Poetry is the art of using language to transcend language.

His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origin of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the overlarge and rather empty human soul.

We read each other through our eyes, and anatomically they are an extension of our brains. When we catch someone's eye, we look into a mind.

To this day, good English usually means the English wealthy and powerful people spoke a generation or two ago.

...to swear with a ferocity that can only be described as a talent.

Language is something you inherit, it's never just you doing the talking, which helps when you're pretending.

Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.

When a society decays, it is language that is first to become gangrenous. As a result, social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings

Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech.

Boondocks' is simply the Tagalog word for mountains.

I can read and speak Hindi quite well now and that's quite an achievement considering I didn't know the language at all when I came down here.

A programming language is a tool that has profound influence on our thinking habits.

APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection.

APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums.

If you love language, it will love you back.

Language is the light of the mind

Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a look, far better than a printed book; convey a libel in a frown, and wink a reputation down.

I dislike math, yet I respect and appreciate the fact that math is the language of the universe.

The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.

True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways that writers used to aspire to.

The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.

I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language.

There's no question that Donald Trump has had ample opportunity to distance himself from the kind of racist language that comes from some of his supporters.

Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.

The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.

The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.

There is a language beyond human language, an elemental language, one that arises from the land itself.

Mathematics is the language of size.

Everything she did and love, everything she was, required language.

One advantage of photography is that it's visual and can transcend language.

All biblical exegetes and theologians have a theory of language, whether they acknowledge it or not.

Poetry is a deliberate attempt to make language suggestive and imprecise.

The precision provided (or enforced) by programming languages and their execution can identify lacunas, ambiguities, and other areas of potential confusion in conventional [mathematical] notation.

JavaScript is the world's most misunderstood programming language.

Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language.

Prayer no longer seems like an activity to me; it has become the continuing language of the relationship I believe God designed to fulfill a human life.

Language was such a profoundly new evolutionary innovation that our brains had to be completely redesigned in order to handle it.

What is it that really makes us, us? It's our collective intelligence. It's our ability to write things down, our language and our consciousness.

And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation.

A language is the appearances of connections therefore language as in writing doesn't express anything: it creates.

When I'm on TV, I'm often talking to a conservative host. I may have another conservative arguing with me. You've got very limited time, and you're using 'sound-bite' type language.

For a large class of cases - though not for all - in which we employ the word meaning it can be explained thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language.

Philosophical problems arise when language goes on holiday

Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children.

Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual use of language; it can in the end only describe it.

Here the term 'language-game' is meant to bring into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity, of a form of life.

Color is a language. It is the language of painting. How painting expresses itself is in large part with color.

I'm trying always to leave out what I think is extraneous. And to find what I think is the most wonderful language to make a beautiful sentence.