Quotes about language
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 lit poetry-is
Poetry is either language lit up by life or life lit up by language Peter Porter
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 paradox knows
Paradox: how do we know what we have failed to see because we have no language to express it, thus we cannot know that we have failed to see it. Joyce Carol Oates
language source
Let language be the divining rod that finds the sources of thought. Karl Kraus
language billions millions
Out of 1.6 billion Muslims, perhaps only 300 million actually understand the language of the Koran. Mosab Hassan Yousef
language metaphor
All words, in every language, are metaphors. Marshall McLuhan
language ancient states
A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state. Joseph Brodsky
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.
language type minutes
I type a 101 words a minute. But it's in my own language. Mitch Hedberg
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 counterparts
Language is the picture and counterpart of thought. Mark Hopkins
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.
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.
language talking
(Graduates) will read this and think 'The person is talking my language,'
language gender pronouns
The old languages - at least the ones I know - don't have gender. They don't have gendered pronouns. There's no "he" and "she." A human being is a human being. Gloria Steinem
language kind music-is
Music is a kind of harmonious language. Gioachino Rossini
language used made
A sentence is made up of words, a statement is made in words.... Statements are made, words or sentences are used. J. L. Austin
language english-language ifs
If only…the saddest words in the English language. Kristan Higgins
language poetry-is deliberate
Poetry is a deliberate attempt to make language suggestive and imprecise. Kenneth Koch
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