Quotes about language
language limits words
The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for. Ludwig Wittgenstein
language breathe british
The British power is the overlord without whom Indian princes cannot breathe. Mahatma Gandhi
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.
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 billions millions
Out of 1.6 billion Muslims, perhaps only 300 million actually understand the language of the Koran. Mosab Hassan Yousef
language thrive feels
We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom. Slavoj Zizek
language should feels
I always feel like music should be a universal language. Melanie Fiona
language hunger poor
Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies. Theodor Adorno
language body-language
[Donald Trump] said that he has intelligence briefings. He's heard stuff that body language. It's very wild to me. Eric Bolling
language obsessed boxes
I've become obsessed with learning other languages in movies, because I was like, since I was like, but I learned how to box so why don't I just learn another language for a movie? Jake Gyllenhaal
language unconscious
The unconscious is structured like a language. Jacques Lacan
language shallow conversation
A text conversation is a short exchange of often grossly truncated language that corresponds to a thought made all the more shallow by the process. Henry Rollins
language discourse subjects
A written discourse on any subject is bound to contain much that is fanciful. Plato
language
language is never neutral Paulo Freire
language modern english-poetry
English poetry begins whenever we decide to say the modern English language begins, and it extends as far as we decide to say that the English language extends. James Fenton
language whole
We must plow through the whole of language.
language imagine form
To imagine a language is to imagine a form of life.