Language Quotes

The clans began to bombard the outer force field with rockets, missiles, nukes, and harsh language.

French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy.

The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.

We can write the new chapters in a visual language whose prose and poetry will need no translation.

All the best bands have a language, and what they say within that language makes it is what it is.

Language can be used to so many diverse ends. It can be used to clarify and, of course, it can be used to obfuscate, confuse, evade.

Truth and falsity is something that concerns language, it's a property of language.

Hebrew is this unique thing that you cannot translate to any other language. It has to do with its history.

When my books were translated, it was always about the characters, because the unique language aspect was lost in translation.

I think that, in Hebrew, it's like the language creates a more unique and specific universe even before the story.

You don't need to use the language of God to ask where the restrooms are.

When I started writing my stories, I thought that not only nobody outside my language, but nobody outside my neighbourhood would get them.

In Israel, the role of the writer is dictated by the language in which you write. Writers see themselves as cultural prophets.

It's always a unique challenge when you're working with somebody where English is their second language.

I haven't sat down and memorized the language of Elvish, and anyone who does that is crazy!

The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.

Working with the Latin language is pretty powerful. Working with a language that is not spoken vernacularly is intense.

Even if you're a genius and you invent your own language, it doesn't become a language until there are people using it.

The use of the high level language made each programmer a factor of 5 to 10 more productive in a coding sense and more concerned with the semantics than the syntax of modules.

My homeland is the portuguese language.

I don't write in Portuguese. I write myself.

the language of truth is too simple for inexperienced ears.

How comes it that you curse, Frere Jean? It's only, said the monk, in order to embellish my language. They are the colors of Ciceronian rhetoric.

I don't speak ... I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own.

Learning a language represents training in the delusions of that language.

I had a chance to go to Italy when I was younger and that would have been tough because of the language. America is easier but I really loved it.

It applies even more to politicians because they are living, breathing embodiments of the language that they use. And it's why how you start the conversation, and how you end it, matters so much.

You need good principles and good language if you are to succeed.

If one attempts to achieve deity or to have the holy, he is thrown back; he is refused. His language is taken from him. He can no longer even communicate. That's the Tower of Babel.

The language and concepts contained herein are guaranteed not to cause eternal torment in the place where the guy with the horns and pointed stick conducts his business

The thinking is that we started evolving language not by speaking but by gesturing.

As the mother teaches her children how to express themselves in their language, so one Gypsy musician teaches the other. They have never shown any need for notation.

Job Control Language is the worst programming language ever designed anywhere by anybody for any purpose.

Throughout, the work of Tyndale formed the foundation, and more than anyone else he established the rhythms and furnished much of the language which is familiar to us in the Authorised Version.

The world speaks of holy things in the only language it knows, which is worldly language.

The body is a very low level machine language. The language of the soul, of the mind, is much more evolved.

Thoughts can increase our understanding of a subject, or they can just as easily constrict or block our understanding of a subject. It very much depends upon the language we are thinking in.

Language is the medium of our thoughts.

Consider the way you speak and your use of language; it's a reflection of your warrior spirit.

The language that nature speaks is the same language that we invented for mathematics. That's just an amazing piece of luck, which we don't understand.

The spiritual activity of millennia is deposited in language.

A philosophical mythology lies concealed in language, which breaks out again at every moment, no matter how cautious we may be.

Reason" in language - oh, what an old deceptive female she is! I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar.

The philosopher caught in the nets of language.

We cannot even reproduce our thoughts entirely in words.

It is neither the best nor the worst things in a book that defy translation.

[Heraclitus' language] dispenses with lightness and artificial decoration, foremost out of disgust for humanity and out of [his own] defiant feeling.

Greek mathematics is the real thing. The Greeks first spoke a language which modern mathematicians can understand... So Greek mathematics is 'permanent', more permanent even than Greek literature.

I had decided I wanted to write about food, and I knew the only way to do that is to speak with authority, which meant learning the language and knowing what that experience is like.

The human need for language is not simply for the transmission of meaning, it is at the same time listening to and affirming a person's existence.