Language Quotes

Big stuff and little: learning how to order breakfast in a country where I don't speak the language and haven't been before - that's really satisfying to me. I like that.

She was fluent in four languages and yet her fists against the rusted hood were the fullest articulation of her defeat.

We understand … that what constitutes the dignity of a craft is that it creates a fellowship, that it binds men together and fashions for them a common language.

Language shapes consciousness and from consciousness, our world is shaped.

I think I am good in the department of body language and fighting, and stuff like that. It's just natural to me, maybe because I love sports.

I did my first movie, "The Mambo Kings," in America without speaking the language. I learned the lines phonetically. I had an interpreter actually just to understand directions from my director.

When you work in a different language you are not so attached to the words.

I don't read my reviews, I measure them.

A fine thought in fine language is a most precious jewel, and should not be hid away, but be exposed for use and ornament.

Thoughts there are, not to be translated into any language, and spirits alone can read them.

We are so used to not having kids around [on Twilight] that we had to really make an effort to try and edit our language.

First we need to rethink the terms and recognize that we've imported this language from the technocratic class, from Silicon Valley, that talks about openness and transparency.

Any programming language is at its best before it is implemented and used. Anything is possible, anything can happen. On a flimsy ground of reality, imagination spins marvelous patterns.

I hope my visual language inspires others to tell their stories and challenges people's thinking.

As humans we speak one language.

Adam is one of my favourite writers, period. He has such a unique voice and he's somebody who I admire so much for putting the effort into inventing his own language and furthering it.

You need a team that speaks your language.

I'm not somebody who is always comfortable with language that implies I've got a monopoly on the truth, or that my faith is automatically transferable to others.

When I'm drafting right to life language, I don't call up the nuns.

In the world I am Always a stranger I do not understand its language It does not understand my silence

To the young, cliches seem freshly minted.

Language is also a place of struggle.

I stand and listen to people speaking french in the stores and in the street. It's such a pert, crisp language, elegant as ruffling taffeta.

Persia is very different from the Arab Middle East in terms of architecture and language. Even though we think of them as one big Middle Eastern area, in truth, Persia's quite distinct.

Everybody has a language or code that they use with their wife or their girlfriend or boyfriend or what have you. It's a language aside from the language they have with strangers.

Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money.

Fiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children.

You can't eat language but it eases thirst.

There is a pride in speaking this language.

Donald Trump's language has been atrocious, his behavior toward women.

We shall say that we have acquaintance with anything of which we are directly aware, without the intermediary of any process of inference of any knowledge of truths.

I've been lucky with the circle of people I'm playing with. We've played enough that there's a language we talk with each other when we play.

Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively.

Support for alternate languages will largely depend on the underlying OS.

The easiest books are generally the best; for, whatever author is obscure and difficult in his own language, certainly does not think clearly.

I'm not one of those "omg texting kids rite bad" alarmists. I just think there's an interesting nexus where the Internet itself hastened language change when it comes to Internet terms.

Some people are really into being music-minded and knowing all their scales and how to read music and speak the language.

French was my first language.

My favorite language for maintainability is Python. It has simple, clean syntax, object encapsulation, good library support, and optional named parameters.

Lately, I feel like my life is a book written in a language I don't know how to read.

In taking care with language, we take care of ourselves.

I feel that music is more flexible than language and your song, or "piece" is only as flexible as your least flexible component.

Fun has to rule in a lot of scenarios. Occasionally, when you are really getting going, you need to stretch beyond language. It has to go out the window.

I have a pretty major problem with a language where one of the most common variables has the name $_

I think that every film should have its own structure, and that's the beauty of film language - is that we get to express that deeply individualistic side of ourselves.

The cool thing about doing a voice-over into a different language is that you get to bring the character of your own culture into it.

Soap operas are a world where rich people always have chandeliers and hip people have striped hair and the language that they use doesn't have any flexibility anymore.

If you watch a Chinese movie with subtitles, it's just like watching an Arabic movie with Chinese subtitles. That explains why you can't take Chinese language movies and expect them to go abroad.

A poem employs both the sound and the sense of language, it treats words not just as signifiers but as a plastic medium of artistic expression.

I learned American Sign Language in college and seemed to pick it up rather quickly. I really love to sign and wish that I had more friends to sign with.