Quotes about language
language exhausted
Words performed through music can express what language alone had exhausted Hugo von Hofmannsthal
language scene generalities
As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene. Jacques Derrida
language speak mathematician
No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language. Jacques Derrida
language speak my-own
I speak only one language, and it is not my own. Jacques Derrida
language spokes yiddish
To me the Yiddish language and the conduct of those who spoke it are identical. Isaac Bashevis Singer
language-words acting action
Words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.
language ancient states
A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state. Joseph Brodsky
language type minutes
I type a 101 words a minute. But it's in my own language. Mitch Hedberg
language counterparts
Language is the picture and counterpart of thought. Mark Hopkins
language-words law generations
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
language interpretation grammar
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. Noam Chomsky
language poetry-is deliberate
Poetry is a deliberate attempt to make language suggestive and imprecise. Kenneth Koch
language feels
I don't feel restricted by the language: I feel more free. Olivier Martinez
language
A language is everything you do. Margaret Atwood
language wells interpreter
I can understand German as well as the maniac that invented it, but I talk it best through an interpreter. Mark Twain
language computer ambiguous
Human languages tend to be much more ambiguous than computer languages because humans are much smarter about interpreting the context. Larry Wall
language
I went with my very being toward language. Paul Celan
language
The language with which I make my poems has nothing to do with one spoken here, or anywhere. Paul Celan
language loses knows
When a language die we don't know what we lose with language. Patricia Ryan
language british identical
The Americans are identical to the British in all respects except, of course, language. Oscar Wilde
language ass curse
I love the French language... it's a delightful language, especially to curse with. It's like whopping your ass with silk. Oscar Wilde
language metaphor
All words, in every language, are metaphors. Marshall McLuhan
language living-things
Language is a living thing Gilbert Highet
language
Nothing exists except through language. Hans-Georg Gadamer
language understood
Being that can be understood is language. Hans-Georg Gadamer
language poet rhetorical
All language is rhetorical, and even the senses are poets. George Santayana
language humour exquisite
The English take everything with an exquisite sense of humour. They are only offended if you tell them that they have no sense of humour. George Mikes
language programming programming-languages
With .NET once an API is published it's available to all programming languages at the same time. Miguel de Icaza
language fortresses knows
A language which we do not know is a fortress sealed. Marcel Proust
language mathematics made
The mathematical sciences wield their particular language made of digits and signs, no less subtle than any other. Jorge Luis Borges
language plausible
The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists. Jorge Luis Borges
language foreign-language ifs
If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
language limits mean
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world Ludwig Wittgenstein