Language Quotes
I used to keep a dictionary and work with it and then I realized there are more words that exist in the English language than there are in this dictionary.
We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language, which is a sort of monument, to which each forcible individual in a course of many hundred years has contributed a stone.
Aristocracy and exclusiveness tend to final overthrow, in language as in politics.
It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to master a foreign language if you're not brought up with it
As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man.
The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one's own style and creatively adjust this to one's author.
That's so different in Hong Kong when I'm using my own mother language, I can treat the line in one thousand different ways, with many different reactions.
I'm interested in Russian language, culture, history... and I lived there, for four years, as a reporter for the Washington Post and have visited many times since.
When you know the language of love,it's easy to understand that someone in the world awaits you.
Omens are the individual language in which God talks to you. My omens are not your omens.
I'm looking for stories that make me sit up and take notice. For engagement with language and style in ways that the genre doesn't see enough of.
...he learned the most important part of the language that all the world spoke-the language that everyone on earth was capable of understanding in their heart. It was love.
There's something in the German language that makes you feel like you're getting a hug and a backstab at the same time.
In order to figure out how to make atoms compute, you have to learn how to speak their language and to understand how they process information under normal circumstances.
signs are an extremely personal language that we develop throughout our lives, by trial and error, until we begin to understand that God is guiding us.
if there's one thing consistent about language it is that it is constantly changing. The only languages that do not change are those whose speakers are dead.
What's great is that because math is such a universal language, really, our fans come in all shapes and sizes, all ages and genders and races and backgrounds and cultures.
Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.
When we use a language, we should commit ourselves to knowing it, being able to read it, and writing it idiomatically.
It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are disguised by sobriety.
One of the first issues I dealt with was the struggle to find a language, to find my own words.
Le langage est une peau: je frotte mon langage contre l'autre. Language is a skin; I rub my language against another language.
What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends.
It's hard for me to get embarrassed, but the things that do embarrass me would be if anybody ever heard my wife and I talking in our robust, made-up language.
I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct us towards the ultimate reality.
There are three things without which there is no country--common language, common judicature, and co-tillage land--for without these a country cannot support itself in peace and social union.
I grew up in France, my first language was French, and I tend to gravitate towards French cooking.
One barrier... is the impoverishment of classroom language, the failure to cultivate a common vocabulary about inquiry, explanation, argument and problem solving.
Poetry reminds us of the truths about life and human nature that we knew all along, but forgot somehow because they weren't yet in memorable language.
The language of the internet is English, and an overwhelming proportion of the global computer chatter also originates from America, influencing the content of global conversation.
You can't treat Russia like a guilty schoolboy who has to put a cross on a piece of paper to show he has done his homework. That kind of language is unacceptable.
Fashions are not fashions at all but refashioning; language is not communication but reinvention. They are never in place but on display.
I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery.
In the particular presence of memorable language we can find a reminder of our ability to know and retain knowledge itself: the brightness wherein all things come to see.
Poetic language is singularly appropriate for recounting the life of the king who is traditionally accepted as the author of the poetic psalms, some of which are included in the narrative.
Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.
The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.
But what am I? An infant crying in the night: An infant crying for the light: And with no language but a cry.
Language is called the garment of thought: however, it should rather be, language is the flesh-garment, the body, of thought.
