Language Quotations | Page 5

You know, you can make a small mistake in language or etiquette in Britain, or you could when I was younger, and really be made to feel it, and it's the flick of a lash, but it would sting, and especially at school where there's not much privacy, and so on. You could, yes, undoubtedly be made to feel crushed.

On the day of the show, I sit down with someone that speaks very good English and someone who speaks the local language very well and work out what I'm going to say.

Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.

Language is too complex for a computer to understand. It's not going to be able to make sense of what people are saying en masse. We need a new type of discipline that puts together computer scientists and social scientists, who can add context to the situation.

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.

I like to be in a European city where I can speak my language.

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.

In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously.

My language and my sensibility are yearning to admit a kind of religious or transcendent dimension. But then there's the reality: there's no Heaven, no afterlife of the sort we were promised, and no personal God.

Even so, sometimes I wish I did have a little bit more flair in my language.

Humans are crude linguists from the moment of birth - and perhaps even in the womb - to the extent at least that we can hear spoken sounds and begin to recognize different combinations of language sounds.

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

We inhabit a language rather than a country.

Open Graph is a language for structuring content and sharing that goes on in other apps, and we're continuing to build it out longer term. But we found we need to build more specific experiences around categories like music or movies. Where we've taken the time to build those specific experiences, stuff has gone quite well.

Dance music is no longer a simple Donna Summer beat. It's become a whole language that I find fascinating and exciting. Eventually, it will lose the dance tag and join the fore of rock.

I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English.

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.

I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.

I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.

The language of all the interpretations, the translations, of the Judaic Bible and the Christian Bible, is musical, just wonderful. I read the Bible to myself; I'll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.

The other side said (there are) 799 federal and state laws mandating the use of English. ... We would say those kinds of laws are not at issue here. I think that English is the official language of this country in a practical sense already. And I think that most people who come here both learn English and want to learn English.

We applaud Senators Ensign and Byrd for winning this resounding victory for horses. Senate offices received thousands of calls from constituents who love horses, and we thank lawmakers for acting decisively to end the slaughter of these American icons and trusted companions. The identical language from the House and Senate should put this issue to rest and save tens of thousands of horses from a grim and painful end.

We are a government that does not deal with niceties of language and packaging, it deals with action, ... I have no doubt that ... we will continue on this path and, in the end, the feeling will change as well.

We're in a period of denial about the extent to which racism still exists as a structural phenomenon. It was just so evident in this storm. Even in the language people used.

We appreciate the efforts of others participating in the conference who sought to remove the offensive language from the final document.

We who write in English are fortunate to have the richest and most versatile language in the world. Respect it.

Whether the Fed goes 25 or 50 basis points next week might mean something for managing market psychology, but it doesn't mean nearly as much for the broader economy. Their language regarding their future considerations on rates is what should matter.

Watching TV is just passive, because they are just sitting there. You are not developing your gross motor skills. ... It is not conducive to oral language development. It is not going to increase your oral language skills.

When I was out looking at different degrees, I felt it was the best degree to prepare me for any type of position in business with the exception of maybe marketing. The language of business is accounting.

When I was in Marine training I memorised 'The Waste Land,' which was a significant experience in terms of really breaking apart language and thinking about how the different voices in that poem function.

What we're making isn't folk music, but savage intellectualism. We speak a language of a new world community that understands cultures can relate. So people who still speak of nationalism and racism or what separates us, they are inadequate for this time. Evolution goes on.

What they were trying to do was to invent a new visual language for the 20th century. And what they did was they took the Renaissance window -- one point perspective illusion -- and it's as if they took a piece of glass over this painting and shattered it, creating all these fragments and planes. And then took those planes together and reassembled it.

What they're likely to do is take away the mild and gradual language from the statement.

When we get to the conference with the Senate, we'll consider it, but the Senate language, I think, is irresponsible,

What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind. Music is love itself - it is the purest, most ethereal language of passion, showing in a thousand ways all possible changes of color and feeling; and though true in only a single instance, it yet can be understood by thousands of men - who all feel differently.

What's so interesting is that the Aborigine language is all handed down from generation to generation - it's not a written language.

Unions have got to find a language that justifies the actions that they are taking, they're going to have to use the language of civil rights.

World language courses are developing students in a capacity in European and Asian languages and this gives them a deeper understanding of not only language, but culture. It brings prosperity and peace to this world.

We're going to build tough language into our contracts. We're going to make sure our contractors follow through.

We're hopeful that the new language that we have submitted will serve as a rallying point for the different interests on this. It would allow us to concentrate on putting forward and explaining Learn and Earn.

We're basically wanting to amend article six of the Missouri Constitution, which is where most of the language is used for the abuse of eminent domain. We also would like to clear up the language in two sections of the first article of the Missouri Bill of Rights to get a more clear definition of certain terms.

George Orwell once blamed the demise of the English language on politics. It's quite possible he never read a prospectus.

With the reaction that we got from the family version, people clearly made a statement that they wanted that international element in the show. I think it showed that the places are as much stars in the show as the people themselves. People were missing that exotic element ? that fish-out-of-water element where people were completely and utterly dumbfounded as to what to do because of culture shock and language barriers. They missed that. And I think that is a huge hook for us.

We know each other, we visit each other and in times of crisis, we pull together. We cannot let the barriers of language or culture or custom come between us. We are united in the call for justice. We know that every good work is rewarded ten-fold.

Very few graduates have that combination of skills ... many students are shying away from language courses and travelling to places like Indonesia or Malaysia because of the terror warnings.

Ultimately it is our objective to provide a language-specific development center for every language that matters. It's just a matter of which ones we get to first.

I'm trying to steal from everybody. So yeah, there's cats that I'm personally affiliated with - Carl Franklin, Paul Thomas Anderson - and others that I don't know personally but their work I'm a big admirer of, like Martin Scorsese. But I'm hoping to come up with a language that is mine, that's specific to my take on this material.

There is the English language and then there's the Trump language.

Maybe then you comprehend, speaking one language only is a prison!

It's nonsense to say that it's not in the bill. The reality is that the bill they will have passed to the Senate will have this language in it.

I can't imagine my world without music. It's the universal language; what I make comes from my heart. What I listen to from others stirs it.

The internet is an amazing medium for languages,

Research shows that those kids who text frequently are more likely to be the most literate and the best spellers, because you have to know how to manipulate language.

Language itself changes slowly but the internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you notice them more quickly.

Mathematics to me is like a language I don’t speak though I admire its literature in translation.

There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds.

resignation, perhaps the most stifling word in the language.

It's Latin, which is an excellent language for mischief-making, which is why governments are so fond of it.

Every language reflects the prejudices of the society in which it evolved.

Would people still use the same demeaning language talking about European gypsies or immigrants? It is fundamentally an old, 19th-century throwback to the idea that that these people are somehow like our ancestors, or backward. It conveys that they are somehow not as intelligent as we are; that they haven't progressed as far as we have. It is fundamentally a colonial mentality.

Words like 'retirement' just don't appeal to boomers. We are really careful in our language. They are looking more for individuality and ways to express themselves.

Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place.

Writers lock up themselves into their language. I locked up myself into my language situation, where only new high German is spoken.

All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.

You must feel what you're singing, not just have a good presentation of the language.

Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.

The language of Mexicans springs from abysmal extremes of power and impotence, domination and resentment.

We have no language to allow wind energy systems in our existing zoning ordinance.

There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.

Well, visual language is another boring discussion about the nature of film.

The greatest single programming language ever designed

Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.

The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.

I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely blest -- blest beyond what language can express; because I am my husband's life as fully as he is mine.

Even, she thought, even without the gift of witchsight, there was more beauty to be found in the world than could ever be snared in language or music. And with the sight...

XML is not a language in the sense of a programming language any more than sketches on a napkin are a language.

It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.

The soul is something which contains the body. The body doesn't contain the soul. The soul, if we put it into modern language, is the entire complex of relationships in whose context this organism exists.

A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.

In English every word can be verbed.

Magic and art tend to share a lot of the same language. They both talk about evocation, invocation, and conjuring.

The only reality we can ever truly know is that of our perceptions, our own consciousness, while that consciousness, and thus our entire reality, is made of nothing but signs and symbols. Nothing but language. Even God requires language before conceiving the Universe. See Genesis: “In the beginning was the Word.

Spirituality is a natural part of ourselves, as natural as emotions, but we've got all the language wrong and made this divide between secularism and spirituality, whereas instead it's about being human.

I don't speak anything very well. The longer that you travel, you find out that you really don't even need to speak the language to get around and get things done, to live in those places. If you're somewhat resourceful and perceptive, you're pretty much going to know what's going on because human nature is human nature: they understand it, you understand it, and it works.

Without doubt, the mightiest thought the mind can entertain is the thought of God, and the weightest word in any language is its word for God.

Language should fulfill your individual existence as a wholesome human being... Language should be more than just getting by.

I'm bugged because I can't believe I can't speak every language there is. But I feel I can when I sit and am with somebody, and I can dance for them. Because dance is dialogue without language.

Unless I'm writing in the Igbo language, I use a language developed elsewhere, which is English. That affects the way I write. It even affects to some extent the stories I write.

If someone said, I want to translate your novel into Igbo, I would say, Go ahead. But when I write in the Igbo language, I write my own dialect. I write some poetry in that dialect.

It is as though the ancestors who made language and knew from what bestiality its use rescued them are saying to us: Beware of interfering with its purpose! For when language is seriously interfered with, when it is disjoined from truth, be it from mere incompetence or worse, from malice, horrors can descend again on mankind.

Silence is the only language god speaks.

My language is the sum total of myself.

Jazz is the language of the emotions.

God gave humans language so they could conceal their thoughts from one another.

We're persecuted in the most civilized languages.

You can't eat language but it eases thirst.

Knowledge and Experience do not necessarily speak the same language.

Verbing weirds language.