Best 3547 quotes in «language quotes» category

Dig -- the mostly uncouth -- language of grace.

Disease [is] as one of our languages. Doctors understand what disease has to say about itself. It's up to the person with the disease to understand what the disease has to say to her.

Doing TV is a different kind of language.

Donald Trump came along and spoke in a language that speaks directly to a portion of the Republican base with what they want to hear. I don`t think that he actually has a very significant ideology.

Donald Trump's language has been atrocious, his behavior toward women.

[Donald Trump] said that he has intelligence briefings. He's heard stuff that body language. It's very wild to me.

Do Not Disturb signs should be written in the language of the hotel maids.

Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics.

Don't tell your friends about your indigestion. "How are you" is a greeting, not a question.

Don't you understand that all language is dead currency? How they keep on playing shop with it all the same.

Do you know what a foreign accent is? It's a sign of bravery.

Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the language in which Keats and the rest of them wrote!

Do you realize how angry you sound?” must be one of the most infuriating questions in the language.

Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.

Dude, the bush is ready. Why you still beating around it?” “I’ve lived a long time, kid, and I’ve never heard anyone mutilate the English language quite like you.

Dutch is not so much a language as an ailment of the throat.

Each actor requires a different language.

Each language gives you something different so that's a good enough reason for you to learn it.

Eating is our earliest metaphor, preceding our consciousness of gender difference, race, nationality, and language. We eat before we talk.

Each religion necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself. Religions, like languages, are necessary rivals. What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.

Each routine you read turns out to be pretty much what you expected. You can call it beautiful code when the code also makes it look like the language was made for the problem.

Each language has its own temperament; some languages make a poem more dramatic or sad, and others make it more playful.

Eighty percent of language lies to us.

Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.

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.

[Emacs] is written in Lisp, which is the only computer language that is beautiful.

Elementary propositions consist of names.

Elvis is the greatest cultural force in the twentieth century. He introduced the beat to everything, music, language, clothes, it's a whole new social revolution - the 60's comes from it.

Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.

English, no longer an English language, now grows from many roots.

English has borrowed from everywhere and now goes everywhere.

English is weak in describing emotional states or intensities of interpersonal relationships.

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.

english doesn't borrow from other languages. english follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.

English is full of booby traps for the unwary foreigner. Any language where the unassuming word fly signifies an annoying insect, a means of travel, and a critical part of a gentleman's apparel is clearly asking to be mangled.

English is a forgiving language. It's not like Classical Arabic and it's not like French. You can speak broken English and be expressive and no one will hold it against you.

English is a really wonderful language and I urge you all to investigate it

English is a stretch language; one size fits all.

English is the perfect language for preachers because it allows you to talk until you think of what to say.

Englishmen must learn to be Brahmins, not banias.

English has more flexibility. It's a very plastic, very shapeable, very expressive language. In that sense it feels quite natural.

English is my second language. Laughter is my first.

English is the 'language of liberty' for nations emerging from years of cultural oppression.

English, once accepted as an international language, is no more secure than French has proved to be as the one and only accepted language of diplomacy or as Latin has proved to be as the international language of science.

English, our common language, binds our diverse people.

Esperanto was a very useful language, because wherever you went, you found someone to speak with.

Eternal truth needs a human language that alters with the spirit of the times.

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

European languages must not be considered diamonds displayed under a glass ball, dazzling us with their brilliance.

Even if someone knew the entire physical history of the world, and every mental event were identical with a physical, it would notfollow that he could predict or explain a single mental event (so described, of course).