Language Quotes

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.

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.

The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.

We may come to Jesus and ask Him; He will know all about it; if He comes to a little child, he will adapt himself to the language and capacity of a little child.

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

Liquid, flowing words are the choicest and the best, if language is regarded as music. But when it is considered as a picture, then there are rough words which are very telling, they make their mark.

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.

The mathematical sciences wield their particular language made of digits and signs, no less subtle than any other.

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.

Language is the light of the mind

If you love language, it will love you back.

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.

APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection.

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

Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.

Music is the unspoken language that can convey feelings more accurately than talking ever could.

The only philosophy is that of language, the only religion is that of the word.

I would not rob you of your food or your clothes or your umbrella, but if I caught your German out I would take it. But I don't study any more,- I have given it up.

I can understand German as well as the maniac that invented it, but I talk it best through an interpreter.

We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.

Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one.

When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly, I think any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.

We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.

I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad.

I shan't get free of my emotion by copying the tree faithfully, or by drawing its leaves one by one in the common language, but only after identifying myself with it.

NVC is founded on language and communication skills that strengthen our ability to remain human, even under trying conditions.

Explore the idea of what the language that women speak would really be like if no one were there to correct them.

The language of [Catholic] mysticism - its repeated attempts to lay consciousness itself bare and speak all the intensely opposing yet interconnected parts of it that cannot be spoken.

I didn't choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early age by the culture, the language, the literature and the history to the place.

The language has got to be fully alive - I can't bear dull, flaccid writing myself and I don't see why any reader should put up with it.

Added to the difficulty of learning to speak the language was the greater difficulty of finding terms to express the ideas which the missionary had come halfway round the world to convey.

Music, the word we use in our everyday language, is nothing less than the picture of our Beloved. It is because music is the picture of our Beloved that we love music.

Learning another language is like becoming another person.

The form language used by the ancient Egyptians in their structures is minimal.

Language does for intelligence what the wheel does for the feet and the body. It enables them to move from thing to thing with greater ease and speed and ever less involvement.

The notion that anything is gained by fixing a language in a groove is cherished only by pedants.

Betray mean terror of ridicule, thou shalt find fools enough to mock thee; but answer thou their language with contempt, and the scoffers will lick thy feet.

Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.

Language may die at the hands of the schoolman: it is regenerated by the poets

I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England

Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's.

I grew up with a very quick temper, and the language of violence is a language that I'm very familiar and comfortable with.

Abstraction is an esoteric language.

Language was invented to ask questions.

Chinese language tends to be quick, economical. To know what people are saying, you always need to know what the context is.

Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness.

It is nonsense for the Government to allow any loopholes for religious homophobia. Bigotry is bigotry whether it's dressed up in the language of faith or not.

I've done reasonably well over the last 10 years because I took the strategy of language and politics and applied it to the corporate world, which has never been done before.

In humans, the family prevents infanticide. Next to language, the core family, consisting of a mother, a father and children, is the greatest difference between us and other primates.