Top Language Quotes Collection

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Image of Jeanette Winterson
Language is a finding place, not a hiding place.
- Jeanette Winterson
Collection: Language
Image of Erin McKean
All language is a popularity contest.
- Erin McKean
Collection: Language
Image of Kató Lomb
He who knows other languages feels even closer to his own language.
- Kató Lomb
Collection: Language
Image of Silvio Berlusconi
We must be capable of speaking a language of peace, but not one of surrender.
- Silvio Berlusconi
Collection: Language
Image of Max Born
No language which lends itself to visualizability can describe quantum jumps.
- Max Born
Collection: Language
Image of Czeslaw Milosz
Language is the only homeland.
- Czeslaw Milosz
Collection: Language
Image of Charles Sanders Peirce
My language is the sum total of myself.
- Charles Sanders Peirce
Collection: Language
Image of George Orwell
There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language
- George Orwell
Collection: Language
Image of Vernor Vinge
Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.
- Vernor Vinge
Collection: Language
Image of Sam Lipsyte
The translator has to be a good writer. The translator has to hear music too. And it might not be exactly your music because the translator needs to translate the music. And so, that is what you are hoping for: a translator who gets what you are doing but who also gets all the ways in which it won't work in the new language.
- Sam Lipsyte
Collection: Language
Image of Ha Jin
English has more flexibility. It's a very plastic, very shapeable, very expressive language. In that sense it feels quite natural.
- Ha Jin
Collection: Language
Image of Lewis Hine
If you can take photographs with language, I'm taking one right now.
- Lewis Hine
Collection: Language
Image of William Stafford
Language can do what it can’t say.
- William Stafford
Collection: Language
Image of Garth Stein
The human language, as precise as it is with its thousands of words, can still be so wonderfully vague.
- Garth Stein
Collection: Language
Image of Chris Ware
Comics are not a genre, but a developing language.
- Chris Ware
Collection: Language
Image of George Mikes
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
Collection: Language
Image of William Whewell
Geometry in every proposition speaks a language which experience never dares to utter; and indeed of which she but halfway comprehends the meaning.
- William Whewell
Collection: Language
Image of Annie Proulx
I am influenced by words and the chewiness of language
- Annie Proulx
Collection: Language
Image of Gioachino Rossini
Music is a kind of harmonious language.
- Gioachino Rossini
Collection: Language
Image of Donna Jo Napoli
Unfortunately, we're using the same language to talk about the language we'retalking about.
- Donna Jo Napoli
Collection: Language
Image of Alan Perlis
In English every word can be verbed.
- Alan Perlis
Collection: Language
Image of Christopher Buckley
Christopher Hitchens is the greatest living essayist in the English language.
- Christopher Buckley
Collection: Language
Image of Robert Schumann
For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond.
- Robert Schumann
Collection: Language
Image of Steve Almond
All language is an aspiration to music.
- Steve Almond
Collection: Language
Image of Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
God gave humans language so they could conceal their thoughts from one another.
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Collection: Language
Image of Larry Wall
Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.
- Larry Wall
Collection: Language
Image of Ruth Ozeki
language is magical - it's a form of conjuring. If you do it convincingly, readers will follow you.
- Ruth Ozeki
Collection: Language
Image of John Woolman
Conduct is more convincing than language.
- John Woolman
Collection: Language
Image of David Mitchell
Maybe then you comprehend, speaking one language only is a prison!
- David Mitchell
Collection: Language
Image of Eavan Boland
Love will heal What language fails to know
- Eavan Boland
Collection: Language
Image of George Steiner
Nothing in a language is less translatable than its modes of understatement.
- George Steiner
Collection: Language
Image of Ludwig Wittgenstein
Language disguises thought.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Collection: Language
Image of Kenneth Burke
Words are like planets, each with its own gravitational pull.
- Kenneth Burke
Collection: Language
Image of Herbert Newton Casson
Net - the biggest word in the language of business.
- Herbert Newton Casson
Collection: Language
Image of Dana Scott
When you speak a new language you must see if you can translate all of the poetry of your old language into the new one.
- Dana Scott
Collection: Language
Image of Richard Mitchell
If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave.
- Richard Mitchell
Collection: Language
Image of Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Words performed through music can express what language alone had exhausted
- Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Collection: Language
Image of Peter Abelard
Language is generated by the intellect and generates the intellect.
- Peter Abelard
Collection: Language
Image of J. L. Austin
A sentence is made up of words, a statement is made in words.... Statements are made, words or sentences are used.
- J. L. Austin
Collection: Language
Image of Paul Celan
The language with which I make my poems has nothing to do with one spoken here, or anywhere.
- Paul Celan
Collection: Language
Image of T. E. Hulme
Language is by its very nature a communal thing.
- T. E. Hulme
Collection: Language
Image of Ana Castillo
I definitely do see language serving its users, and when it no longer serves them we need to look for new words.
- Ana Castillo
Collection: Language
Image of John Gielgud
Ingrid Bergman speaks five languages and can’t act in any of them.
- John Gielgud
Collection: Language
Image of Helene Cixous
We must learn to speak the language women speak when there is no one there to correct us.
- Helene Cixous
Collection: Language
Image of Slavoj Žižek
We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.
- Slavoj Žižek
Collection: Language
Image of Gunnar Myrdal
Language, as we know, is full of illogicalities.
- Gunnar Myrdal
Collection: Language
Image of Betty Boothroyd
Good temper and moderation are the characteristics of parliamentary language.
- Betty Boothroyd
Collection: Language
Image of Alex Jones
Twitter's designed to reduce the language, directly out of 1984! It's Ingsoc!
- Alex Jones
Collection: Language
Image of Bel Kaufman
To the young, cliches seem freshly minted.
- Bel Kaufman
Collection: Language
Image of Bertrand Meyer
Eiffel borrows quite openly from several earlier programming languages and I am sure that if we had found a good language construct in C we would have used it as well.
- Bertrand Meyer
Collection: Language