Language Quotes
Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.
The human language, as precise as it is with its thousands of words, can still be so wonderfully vague.
Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is constantly changing, constantly being renewed.
When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
We must learn to speak the language women speak when there is no one there to correct us.
I don't know what it is about the french language, it seems to be scared of coming out of the mouth so it comes out the nose instead.
The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib.
With languages, you can move from one social situation to another. With languages, you are at home anywhere.
A true lady should have the wit and the imagination, or at least the very restraint, to express herself without resorting herself to such base vocabulary.
She wanted to hold foreign syllables like mints on her tongue until they dissolved into fluency.
We think in language. The quality of our thoughts and ideas can only be as good as the quality of our language.
If two people can love each other without even speaking the same language, age and numbers are even easier to overcome.
It's not that Perl programmers are idiots, it's that the language rewards idiotic behavior in a way that no other language or tool has ever done.
The top 10 verbs in the English language are all irregular, even though irregular verbs make up only 3 per cent of the language.
Language: the one tool that enables us to grasp hold of our lives and transcend our fate by understanding it.
Ubuntu is very difficult to render into a Western language... It is to say, 'My humanity is caught up, is inextricably bound up, in what is yours.'
All women speak two languages: the language of men and the language of silent suffering. Some women speak a third, the language of queens.
Color is the language of the poets. It is astonishingly lovely. To speak it is a privilege.
The idea of an Afrikaner people as a cultural entity and religious group with a special language will be retained in South Africa as long as civilisation stands.
English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen.
Living with my mom, I saw how she used language to cross boundaries, handle situations, navigate the world.
A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do
As for rosemary, I let it run all over my garden walls, not only because my bees love it but because it is the herb sacred to remembrance and to friendship, whence a sprig of it hath a dumb language.
Malcolm X found the language that communicated across the board, from college professor to floor sweeper, all at the same time, without demeaning the intellect of either.
Like the weaver, the writer works on the wrong side of his material. He has only to do with the language, and it is thus that he suddenly finds himself surrounded by sense.
Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.
I am a Mexican that has been lucky enough to travel the world, speaking English, but with a heart that speaks a universal language.
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.