Language Quotes

Content is built on communication. You can't learn anything if you haven't learned how to understand language, or to read.

Language is present in a piece of work like the sea in a single drop.

Speaking in tongues is as normal to me as 'Pass the salt' It's a secret, direct prayer language to God.

We share plates [with Jordan Peele], and we also very often will sit in the corner and kind of speak in our own language.

Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families.

I grew up with the piano. I learned its language as I learned to speak.

Crusaders have just f-ked me over what a bas-rd joke, excuse my language I'm absolutely furious.

Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language.

It's just a favorite language to me, that country finger-picking guitar style.

The phrases and language used everyday in an organization can in fact affect the way your team makes decisions and conducts themselves.

Javier Chevanton don't speak the language too good.

I've long believed that having multiple official languages makes it very hard to sustain a united polity.

It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word.

Let's not forget, there are three languages in Canada - English, French, and there's the language of jobs.

If culture was a house, then language was the key to the front door, [and] to all rooms inside.

I like to use my own language. Political movements are like living creatures - they develop. Each document expresses the times, the different stages and is part of the natural development.

Be careful. I wouldn’t want anything to happen to the worst Spanish student in the history of the language.” I laughed. “No problemo.

I came to grotesque language in the patriarchal culture under the dictatorship. The body that was broken into pieces is a sick body. I put the disease of this world and my sick body together.

The language of poetry is not stuck in place. Nothing can own language. I think, however, the genre of poetry itself is very feminine and motherly.

Whenever you try and simplify how people speak, it's just hard to squish them into a simple rule. Language doesn't work that way.

Someone gave me the Love Languages book, and that has been the best book I've ever read about relationships and has helped me the most.

I want to eat good Italian food and get better at their language. It seems so romantic too.

I really like acting in French. It's actually quite different for me, from acting in English. It's fun acting in a foreign language. You're liberated or freed from preconceptions.

I know what the structure of the language is.

The subtle differences in language and humor that get lost in translation, for example, make it almost impossible for big companies to do something that will appeal at home and abroad.

Let's not become so worried about not offending anybody that we lose the ability to distinguish between respect and paranoia.

The grammar of a language is simply the way it combines smaller elements (such as words) into larger elements (such as sentences).

Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.

Part of language design is perturbing the proposed feature in various directions to see how it might generalize in the future.

As a linguist, I don't think of Ada as a big language. Now, English and Japanese, those are big languages. Ada is just a medium-sized language.

All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory.

Now, I'm not the only language designer with irrationalities. You can think of some languages to go with some of these things.

Human languages tend to be much more ambiguous than computer languages because humans are much smarter about interpreting the context.

You don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up talk, you can cuss in it, you can write poetry, you can be a playwright, is sort of the idea.

Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are.

This is the language of the world before—a world of chaos and confusion and happiness and despair—before the blitz turned streets to grids, cities to prisons, and hearts to dust.

The French just said he was a damned nuisance. Or they would have had they the good fortune to speak English. Instead being French they were forced to say it in their own language.

This is the gift all writers seek-to write language that incandesces yet does not melt.

The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said "Your stay with us is so brief, let us not be reminded of the flight of the hours."

"Writing" is the Latin of our times. The modern language of the people is video and sound.

It feels like people talk a lot, in their relationships and in therapy. But my family wasn't like that. My dad wasn't and I wasn't. Things were said, but via the language of action.

Running had always been off the table for me. It just looks embarrassing when I do it. I viewed it like learning a new language - best to learn it as a child.

I don't know whose sensibility I'm responding to. Until someone starts pushing against what they've inherited and starts making their own decisions about language, it's difficult.

When I watch students make particular decisions about language, structure, and form, it sharpens my own thinking and my own development as a writer.

History is more interesting than politics.

Men standing in opposite hemispheres will converse and deride each other and embrace each other, and understand each other's language.

Better say nothing at all. Language is worth a thousand pounds a word!

We are spectacular splendid manifestations of life. We have language. We have affection. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music.

If French is no longer the language of a power, it can be the language of a counter power.

I find righteous denunciations of the present state of the language no less dismaying than the present state of the language.