Language Quotes
Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.
Human language is the new UI layer, bots are like new applications, and digital assistants are meta apps. Intelligence is infused into all of your interactions.
The luster of an experience can actually go up with time. So, learning to play a new instrument, learning a new language - those sorts of things will pay dividends for years or decades to come.
I should be learning another language and working out more, but I'm just always saying, 'Ah, I could get hit by a bus tomorrow.'
Lie detection is like language there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families.
It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language.
I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.
The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory.
On stage, you're not limited at all because you're free in language: language is the source of the imagination. You can travel farther in language than you can in any film.
I've always seen movies in English with Spanish subtitles. For audiences around the world, the language is less important than if it's a good film.
CSS is the design language of the web, and it is not as easy to use as it ought to be, and it can be confusing, especially if you are new to it.
We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate of matrimony.'
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
The 'silk' in silkpunk refers not to a source of power, but to an entirely different, expressive technology language.
The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.
I come from a place where everything about me, even my body language, is saying: I mean you no harm. I smile, I laugh. Basic stuff for most people.
Every relationship has its own language. It takes a long time to evolve and read one another. Just as it's true for people, it's also true on a national or cultural level.
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.
Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.
Poetry seems to be the only weapon able to beat language, using language's own means.
The language of the Catholic Church - the liturgy, the prayer, the gospels - was in many ways my first poetry.
I always read poetry before I write, to sensitize me to the rhythms and music of language.
The modern progressive movement believes that dissenting language is objectionable, which then removes the brakes between anger and violence.
If you're writing about angry people, you use the language of anger. If you're writing about desperate people, you use the language of desperation.
Language, identity, place, home: these are all of a piece - just different elements of belonging and not-belonging.
Language has no independent existence apart from the people who use it. It is not an end in itself it is a means to an end of understanding who you are and what society is like.