Top Language Quotes Collection - Page 2

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Image of Wilson Follett
The choosing among words is made by every user of the language, and not exclusively by professional speakers and writers.
- Wilson Follett
Collection: Language
Image of Bart Stupak
When I'm drafting right to life language, I don't call up the nuns.
- Bart Stupak
Collection: Language
Image of Anthony Doerr
It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is.
- Anthony Doerr
Collection: Language
Image of Sjon
One thing for sure is it will be written in the Icelandic language. All of my literary work is.
- Sjon
Collection: Language
Image of Hilde Bruch
The poet is a master of language, the schizophrenic is a slave to it.
- Hilde Bruch
Collection: Language
Image of Cassia Leo
Sometimes, you just have to reassure the ones you love in precise language that you'll always be there. Sometimes words are enough.
- Cassia Leo
Collection: Language
Image of Sammy Wilson
Irish is a leprechaun language.
- Sammy Wilson
Collection: Language
Image of Billy Connolly
Politically correct is the language of cowardice.
- Billy Connolly
Collection: Language
Image of Jacques Derrida
I speak only one language, and it is not my own.
- Jacques Derrida
Collection: Language
Image of Jonathan Ames
Oh, God, I don't know what's more difficult, life or the English language.
- Jonathan Ames
Collection: Language
Image of William Colby
The habits and language of clandestinity can intoxicate even its own practitioners.
- William Colby
Collection: Language
Image of Peter Porter
Poetry is either language lit up by life or life lit up by language
- Peter Porter
Collection: Language
Image of Mary Daly
The liberation of language is rooted in the liberation of ourselves.
- Mary Daly
Collection: Language
Image of Rob Pike
Why would you have a language that is not theoretically exciting? Because it's very useful.
- Rob Pike
Collection: Language
Image of Ngugi wa Thiong'o
A person who acquires English has access to all the things that that language makes possible.
- Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Collection: Language
Image of CL
Even if you don't understand the language, you can still love the music.
- CL
Collection: Language
Image of V. S. Pritchett
I am under the spell of language, which has ruled me since I was 10.
- V. S. Pritchett
Collection: Language
Image of Guy Debord
He will essentially follow the language of the spectacle, for it is the only one he is familiar with.
- Guy Debord
Collection: Language
Image of I. A. Richards
Thought is metaphoric, and proceeds by comparison, and the metaphors of language derive therefrom.
- I. A. Richards
Collection: Language
Image of Kristan Higgins
If only…the saddest words in the English language.
- Kristan Higgins
Collection: Language
Image of Warwick Thornton
I love music more than language: it's the best, it's universal.
- Warwick Thornton
Collection: Language
Image of John Felstiner
Translation presents not merely a paradigm but the utmost case of engaged literary interpretation
- John Felstiner
Collection: Language
Image of Joseph Kosuth
I am only describing language, not explaining anything.
- Joseph Kosuth
Collection: Language
Image of Caitlin Thomas
resignation, perhaps the most stifling word in the language.
- Caitlin Thomas
Collection: Language
Image of David Crystal
Language itself changes slowly but the internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you notice them more quickly.
- David Crystal
Collection: Language
Image of David Crystal
The internet is an amazing medium for languages.
- David Crystal
Collection: Language
Image of James Arthur
It makes sense to me that the polyglot wouldn't know what language he dreamed in.
- James Arthur
Collection: Language
Image of Raymond Arroyo
No' is the second shortest word in the English language, but one of the hardest to say.
- Raymond Arroyo
Collection: Language
Image of Matthea Harvey
Poems tend to have instructions for how to read them embedded in their language.
- Matthea Harvey
Collection: Language
Image of Lucas Leiva
Good translations are one of the vital necessities of our time.
- Lucas Leiva
Collection: Language
Image of Patricia Ryan
When a language die we don't know what we lose with language.
- Patricia Ryan
Collection: Language
Image of Miroslav Penkov
In certain places, not always, there are moments where I tried to convey in English a sense of foreignness. I wanted the reader to get the sense that another language is being spoken.
- Miroslav Penkov
Collection: Language
Image of Maturin Murray Ballou
Ancient and modern languages teem with happily expressed sentiments of more or less force and beauty, sufficiently individualized and excellent to warrant their reproduction and classification.
- Maturin Murray Ballou
Collection: Language
Image of Vern Rutsala
The language is spare and under control and has a genuine immediacy...The poems never preach but are lined out with a cool and therefore devastating effect
- Vern Rutsala
Collection: Language
Image of Ben Marcus
A misspelled word is probably an alias for some desperate call for aid, which is bound to fail.
- Ben Marcus
Collection: Language
Image of Suzanne Ciani
There's something to be said about all music being some translation of our languaging, our way of communicating. It's a language. This is a new language.
- Suzanne Ciani
Collection: Language
Image of Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Invent a new language anyone can understand.
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Collection: Language
Image of Galileo Galilei
To understand the Universe, you must understand the language in which it's written, the language of Mathematics.
- Galileo Galilei
Collection: Language
Image of Alfredo Jaar
How many languages do we really speak?
- Alfredo Jaar
Collection: Language
Image of Jean Genet
By stretching language we'll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide.
- Jean Genet
Collection: Language
Image of Karl Lehenbauer
C is the assembly language of Tcl.
- Karl Lehenbauer
Collection: Language
Image of Douglas Crockford
Most programming languages contain good parts and bad parts. I discovered that I could be better programmer by using only the good parts and avoiding the bad parts.
- Douglas Crockford
Collection: Language
Image of Antony Sher
I can feel the power of the words doing the work. Must trust language more.
- Antony Sher
Collection: Language
Image of Lamin Sanneh
The original language of Christianity is translation.
- Lamin Sanneh
Collection: Language
Image of Benjamin Hoff
Knowledge and Experience do not necessarily speak the same language.
- Benjamin Hoff
Collection: Language
Image of Charlton Laird
Grammar is not a set of rules; it is something inherent in the language, and language cannot exist without it. It can be discovered, but not invented.
- Charlton Laird
Collection: Language
Image of Albert Hofmann
God only speaks to those who understand the language
- Albert Hofmann
Collection: Language
Image of Verity Stob
Whereas smaller computer languages have features designed into them, C++ is unusual in having a whole swathe of functionality discovered, like a tract of 19th century Africa.
- Verity Stob
Collection: Language
Image of Kedar Joshi
The language of God is Mystery.
- Kedar Joshi
Collection: Language