Language Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

All words, in every language, are metaphors.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

I speak two languages, Body and English.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.'

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

The chief merit of language is clearness.

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.

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.

No language is rude that can boast polite writers.

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

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.

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.

Playing golf is like learning a foreign language.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The eyes have one language everywhere.

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.

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

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.

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.

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

Women speak two languages - one of which is verbal.

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

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

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.

Speech happens to not be his language.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.

Language is the light of the mind

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.