Quotes about language
language oneself
RIBALDRY, n. Censorious language by another concerning oneself. Ambrose Bierce
language-barriers language barriers
There are no language barriers when you are smiling. Allen Klein
language learn
Will you let me talk? I'll have to learn the language all over again! Stan Freberg
language cowardice politically-correct
Politically correct is the language of cowardice. Billy Connolly
language difficulty precise
A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one. Arthur Schopenhauer
language speak virtue
To speak of atrocious crimes in mild language is treason to virtue. Edmund Burke
language feels i-can
I can feel the power of the words doing the work. Must trust language more. Antony Sher
language speak foreign-language
My subconscious speaks in a foreign language. Deb Caletti
language legislation sloppy
Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation. Dick Cavett
language film boring
Well, visual language is another boring discussion about the nature of film. Alan Rudolph
language programming programming-languages
The greatest single programming language ever designed Alan Kay
language building programming
Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
language description hard
It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description. Alan Watts
language programming programming-languages
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages. Alan Perlis
language english-language programming-languages
In English every word can be verbed.
language resilient stills
Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground. Diane Wakoski
language english-language
There is the English language and then there's the Trump language. David Brooks
language disturbing
The language you are about to hear... is disturbing. Dave Chappelle
language prison foreign-language
Maybe then you comprehend, speaking one language only is a prison! David Mitchell
language internet mediums
The internet is an amazing medium for languages, David Crystal
language internet process
Language itself changes slowly but the internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you notice them more quickly.
language stifling resignation
resignation, perhaps the most stifling word in the language. Caitlin Thomas
language individual should
Language should fulfill your individual existence as a wholesome human being... Language should be more than just getting by. Chogyam Trungpa
language
My language is the sum total of myself. Charles Sanders Peirce
language humans
God gave humans language so they could conceal their thoughts from one another. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
language civilized persecuted
We're persecuted in the most civilized languages. Bernard Malamud
language speak knowledge-and-experience
Knowledge and Experience do not necessarily speak the same language. Benjamin Hoff
language comic english-language
Verbing weirds language. Bill Watterson
language wonderful code
More good code has been written in languages denounced as "bad'' than in languages proclaimed "wonderful'' - much more. Bjarne Stroustrup
language should ifs
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
language-words heaven hamlet-and-ophelia
Words without thoughts never to heaven go. William Shakespeare
language guides insight
Of course language is not an infallible guide, but it contains, with all its defects, a good deal of stored insight and experience. C. S. Lewis
language interpretation hypothetical
No language exists that cannot be misused... Every Interpretation is hypothetical, for it is a mere attempt to read an unfamiliar text. Carl Jung