Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julie Davis

It's better if you don't know their native language.

There will be more than one language out there. Plus, it's Microsoft. They'll be a player.

There's a big need for speech-language personnel to meet the needs of (students).

There're not too many other ways I know how to say 'no' without slipping into another language,

Robin Li

Being able to speak the language of Silicon Valley to venture capitalists is very important.

George Eliot

correct English is the slang of prigs ...

Christopher Buckley

Christopher Hitchens is the greatest living essayist in the English language.

Hillary Clinton

I hope America does not accept the kind of language that Donald Trump is using to describe our fellow Americans.

Evelyn Waugh

The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.

Evan Esar

An instrument that sometimes expresses thought, sometimes obscures thought, but most often replaces thought.

Ernest Hemingway

French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy.

Erin McKean

All language is a popularity contest.

Fisher Ames

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 are a form of action, capable of influencing change.

George Bernard Shaw

English is the easiest language to speak badly.

Galileo Galilei

One can understand nature only when one has learned the language and the signs in which it speaks to us; but this language is mathematics and these signs are methematical figures.

Galileo Galilei

To understand the Universe, you must understand the language in which it's written, the language of Mathematics.

Galileo Galilei

Nature is written in mathematical language.

Franz Kafka

All language is but a poor translation.

Erica Jong

language can't be appropriated by one person, one poet. The words belong to all of us.

Jason Kenney

Sometimes the government has to answer questions with ambiguous language.

Alison Moyet

I love singing in French. I don't think in French. Sometimes when you sing in another language because you can think about the sound you make.

Shane Williams

I didn't understand the language and didn't know what was going on at all.

Hunter Mahan

I just wasn't getting any better, ... We just didn't communicate very well. It was a new language for me, and I was losing touch with my swing.

Confucius

If names are not correct, language will not be in accordance with the truth of things

Noam Chomsky

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.

Noam Chomsky

The syntactic component of a grammar must specify, for each sentence, a deep structure that determines its semantic interpretationand a surface structure that determines its phonetic interpretation.

Harold Bloom

Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage everywhere. Everyone feels that they are represented by him on the stage.

Jean Baudrillard

Power floats like money, like language, like theory.

Mitch Hedberg

I type a 101 words a minute. But it's in my own language.

Mark Hopkins

Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.

Kristan Higgins

If only…the saddest words in the English language.

Kenneth Koch

Poetry is a deliberate attempt to make language suggestive and imprecise.