Language Quotes
Du hast so viele Leben, wie du Sprachen sprichst. (You have as many lives as the number of languages you speak.)
The ultimate language of yoga is expressed in doing yoga, a practice that transcends words as we open our lives to living more consciously through the infinite wisdom of the heart.
I like to see an angry Englishman, " said Poirot. "They are very amusing. The more emotional they feel the less command they have of language.
We should not write so that it is possible for the reader to understand us, but so that it is impossible for him to misunderstand us.
Everything is language.
A conglomerate of complicated words, they confuse, condemn and cajole, created, he is sure, for the sole purpose of fuddling the listener, which in this case is regrettably him.
You should never let a word control you, intimidate you, or make you uncomfortable, and that applies to people of all races. Intent is where insult lies, and hate. Not in language.
Not everyone who knows how to write can be a writer. Not everyone who knows two languages can be a translator.
And if Germans do have systematic minds, this is just as likely to be because their exceedingly erratic mother tongue has exhausted their brains' capacity to cope with any further irregularity
As long as human beings speak different languages, the need for translation will continue.
Verbalize someone's actions back to them. Menace them with language, the language mirror. Death by feedback.
Poetry translation is like playing a piano sonata on a trombone.
...you do violence with your words if you force them - art is given - the words received, moment by moment from unseen hands - call it a Muse ...
In Iraq, interpreters were ten times more likely to be killed than were U.S. troops.
AimlesslyIt pounds the shore. White and aimless signals. NoOne listens to poetry.— from "Thing Language
Translation software is not making translators obsolete. Has medical diagnostic software made doctors obsolete?
Of the 193 recognized countries in the world, only politically isolated North Korea is considered monolingual.
To deny access to translation and interpreting services oppresses human rights and violates laws.
...language always occurs in a context - you can speak Elizabethan words, but to speak the language you have to put on the mindset...
Because different cultures see a particular animal as representing a certain human virtue or vice, the use of animal imagery also allows for more colorful commentary on the human condition.
My Japanese isn’t much better today, but at least now I appreciate my duality more than when I was a punk kid.
Because you think your language is the best language? That because you were born and your parents babbled to you in this tongue, that it is the best language to speak? How small is your mind.
A language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols by means of which a social group cooperates.
Don’t bleach language, savour it instead. Stroke it gently or even groom it, but don’t “purify” it.
I still have enough faith in language to believe that if I place enough words next to each other on the page, they will start to speak with sounds of their own.
I believe language is infinitely malleable, a live being in our hands, which deserves our great respect and curiosity
The language of the heartIs the only languageThat everybody can understand.
And on the way home I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.
I think we can all agree that the official language of the United States should be Latin.
If you do not use clean language in your NAPS the negative words can be literally taken as part of the NAPS, and then you wonder why your NAPS has gone adrift, or that it only partly worked for you.
The German language is so sonorous, isn't it? Beautiful language...the language of poetry. Angry, angry poetry.
The language of the universe comes not from the voice but from the primordial silence. You can understand it by enhancing your feelings.
Learning a new language, just like opening a new window, allows you to see the world with intimacy.
The child's reluctance to speak for the first few months of his residence in a new country is not pathological, but normal.
...when your heart is broken, don't go silent - speak to God in his own language...
We have been called to wrestle with sin through the cross of Jesus Christ
The English Language is a form of communication! Words aren't only bombs and bullets - no, they're little gifts, containing meanings. What is true in love, is equally true at law
Horses don't speak, but they communicate through body language. If you look very closely, you'll find out your horse has been trying to talk to you every day.