Quotes about language
language ends used
Language can be used to so many diverse ends. It can be used to clarify and, of course, it can be used to obfuscate, confuse, evade... Errol Morris
language falsity concern
Truth and falsity is something that concerns language, it's a property of language. Errol Morris
language-of-love language inclusion
Marriage is a language of love, equality, and inclusion. Evan Wolfson
language structure knows
I know what the structure of the language is. Kurt Loder
language stage multicultural
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. Harold Bloom
language theory floats
Power floats like money, like language, like theory. Jean Baudrillard
language foreign-language
French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me. Kristin Scott Thomas
language english-language ifs
If only…the saddest words in the English language. Kristan Higgins
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 knows
Language, as we know, is full of illogicalities. Gunnar Myrdal
language
That is not good language which all understand not. George Herbert
language painting abstract
Painting is... a richer language than words... Painting operates through signs which are not abstract and incorporeal like words. The signs of painting are much closer to the objects themselves. Jean Dubuffet
language embrace dictionary
A dictionary can embrace only a small part of the vast tapestry of a language. Giacomo Leopardi
language natural found
There is no such thing as a natural sentence but there is such a thing as a natural paragraph and it must be found. Gertrude Stein
language time
I'd feel better if I had time to read the language,
language power
I don't think we can underestimate the power of 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 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
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