Language Quotes

Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.

Tears are the silent language of grief.

If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.

Language is wine upon the lips.

High thoughts must have high language.

If there is anything good about exile, it is that it teaches one humility. It accelerates one's drift into isolation, an absolute perspective. Into the condition at which all one is left with is oneself and one's language, with nobody or nothing in between. Exile brings you overnight where it would normally take a lifetime to go.

The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable language.

It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.

The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression.

Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.

All words, in every language, are metaphors.

One of the obligations of the writer is to say or sing all that he or she can, to deal with as much of the world as becomes possible to him or her in language.

Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.

There is only one way to degrade mankind permanently and that is to destroy language.

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

If you are to reach masses of people in this world, you must do it by a sign language. Whether your vehicle be commerce, literature, or politics, you can do nothing but raise signals, and make motions to the people.

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.

The Catholic faith never changes. But the language and mode of manifesting this one faith can change according to peoples, times and places.

My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

Conduct is more convincing than language.

He will essentially follow the language of the spectacle, for it is the only one he is familiar with.

Smiles are the language of love.

It's still a mystery to me exactly how I learned the language. [But] I was 19 years old and I had very urgent things to tell girls.

Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.

I speak two languages, Body and English.

How astonishing it is that language can almost mean, and frightening that it does not quite.

If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things.

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second and you can hop from one place to another. It's a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream.

Words performed through music can express what language alone had exhausted

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.

My least favorite phrase in the English language is 'I don't care.'

Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.

Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb.

Translation is the art of failure.

No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.

Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.

The chief merit of language is clearness.

I'm not trying to stump anybody... it's the beauty of the language that I'm interested in.

When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.

He never labored so hard to learn a language as he did to hold his tongue, and it affected him for life. The habit of reticence "” of talking without meaning "” is never effaced.

Latin is already a dead language, man... don't make it any deader.

Body language is essential for an actress, even if you don't use your body in an athletic way. Just to be free, to use it like your voice. A body can be small and have incredible violence. A body talks.

Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language.

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.

No language is rude that can boast polite writers.

That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it sometimes happens that we don't notice the threshold has been crossed.

Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

The difficulty is not to write, but to write what you mean.

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Don't tell your friends about your indigestion. "How are you" is a greeting, not a question.

Playing golf is like learning a foreign language.

We defend ourselves with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.

What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same.

Let God be true but every man a liar' is the language of true faith.

Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

Because Music is a language that lives in the spiritual realms, we can hear it, we can notate it and create it, but we cannot hold it in our hands

Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis good works make the man.

You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn't have any kind of discussion without permission, without a legal framework behind it.

Something of the previous state, however, survives every change. This is called in the language of cybernetics (which took it form the language of machines) feedback, the advantages of learning from experience and of having developed reflexes.

Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work.

Psychobabble attempts to redefine the entire English language just to make a correct statement incorrect. Psychology is the study of why someone would try to do this.

To be an architect is to possess an individual voice speaking a generally understood language of form.

The repeal of racist language in the Constitution of Alabama was and still is a necessary step in the state's ability to progress.

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.

Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages

Often I am struck in amazement about a word: I suddenly realize that the complete arbitrariness of our language is but a part of the arbitrariness of our own world in general.

I do swear a lot, but the advantage is that having played abroad, I can choose a different language from the referee's.

Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

We can lie in the language of dress or try to tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.

Language is memory and metaphor.

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.

When a language creates - as it does - a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.

With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.

A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.

The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions.

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

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.

The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak.

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier.

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

If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur

Mathematics to me is like a language I don’t speak though I admire its literature in translation.

If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of human thought.

Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation knows about its own identity.

The eyes have one language everywhere.

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.

Every language reflects the prejudices of the society in which it evolved.

Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.

It's no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase "As pretty as an airport" appear

Any language is necessarily a finite system applied with different degrees of creativity to an infinite variety of situations, and most of the words and phrases we use are "prefabricated" in the sense that we don't coin new ones every time we speak.

Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.

Speech happens to not be his language.

To him who in the love of Nature holdsCommunion with her visible forms, she speaksA various language.

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

Women speak two languages - one of which is verbal.

I stand and listen to people speaking french in the stores and in the street. It's such a pert, crisp language, elegant as ruffling taffeta.

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.

The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.

Language is the light of the mind

No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.

The secret of language is the secret of sympathy, and its full charm is possible only to the gentle

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

When it's done with being graceful and poetic, language is meant to communicate, after all.

Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.

If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything.

A whipper-snapper of criticism who quoted dead languages to hide his ignorance of life.

Today we all speak, if not the same tongue, the same universal language. There is no one center, and time has lost its former coherence: East and West, yesterday and tomorrow exist as a confused jumble in each one of us. Different times and different spaces are combined in a here and now that is everywhere at once.

Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is.

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.

The clichﾃδｩ is dead poetry. English, being the language of an imaginative race, abounds in clichﾃδｩs, so that English literature is always in danger of being poisoned by its own secretions.