Quotes about language
language blame folly
We Hindus and Mohamedans would have to blame our folly rather than the English, if we allowed them to put us asunder. Mahatma Gandhi
language cases english-language
The canker has so eaten into the society that in many cases the only meaning of education is a knowledge of English.
language english-language englishmen
The English language is so elastic that you can find another word to say the same thing.
language implementation
and we're weighed down by a crappy implementation language (C++). Eric S. Raymond
language foreign-language wanted
I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad. Ella Maillart
language speak
We must learn to speak the language women speak when there is no one there to correct us. Helene Cixous
language
I was always influenced by language. Helen Dunmore
language seven
We shall never understand one another until we reduce the language to seven words. Khalil Gibran
language corruption introducing
The affectation of some late authors to introduce and multiply cant words is the most ruinous corruption in any language. Jonathan Swift
language surrender metaphor
It seems clear that the Bible belongs to an area of language in which metaphor is functional, and were we have to surrender precision for flexibility. Northrop Frye
language
Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape. Mason Cooley
language propaganda
The best propaganda omits rather than invents
language term stills
Reversing a proposition rearranges its terms, but still keeps out new terms.
language
Language cannot say everything, fortunately.
language borrowed
English has borrowed from everywhere and now goes everywhere.
language protection natural
Our language, one of our most precious natural resources, deserves at least as much protection as our woodlands, streams and whooping cranes. James Lipton
language form jew
Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt. Emma Lazarus
language impulse bolts
Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure The bastion of sensation. Do not waver Into language. Do not waver in it. Seamus Heaney
language enough
The bare fact that language consists of sounds which are mutually intelligible is enough of itself to show that its meaning depends upon connection with a shared experience. John Dewey
language mankind humans
If our language is watered down, then mankind becomes less human, and less free... Madeleine L'Engle
language speak bergman
Ingrid Bergman speaks five languages and can’t act in any of them. John Gielgud
language ifs
If French is no longer the language of a power, it can be the language of a counter power. Lionel Jospin
language states righteous
I find righteous denunciations of the present state of the language no less dismaying than the present state of the language. Lionel Trilling
language speak foreign-language
I speak the truth but I guess that's a foreign language to ya'll! Lil Wayne
language photograph ifs
If you can take photographs with language, I'm taking one right now. Lewis Hine
language-and-power language needed
There are times when the power of language is not the power that is needed. Leon Wieseltier
language well-said wit
A thing well said will be wit in all languages. John Dryden
language humans human-society
You couldn't have human society without language. John Maynard Smith
language
Language changes very fast.
language simulation music-is
Music is a simulation of something, but language is the greatest thing we possess. John Lydon
language rich trouble
[Armenian] is a rich language, however, and would amply repay any one the trouble of learning it. Lord Byron
language speak armenians
Armenian is the language to speak with God.
language speak company
Speak the language of the company you are in; speak it purely, and unlarded with any other. Lord Chesterfield