Best 3547 quotes in «language quotes» category

Come now: Do we really think that the gods are everywhere called by the same names by which they are addressed by us? But the gods have as many names as there are languages among humans. For it is not with the gods as with you: you are Velleius wherever you go, but Vulcan is not Vulcan in Italy and in Africa and in Spain.

Command of English, spoken or written, ranks at the top in business. Our main product is words, so a knowledge of their meaning and spelling and pronunciation is imperative. If a man knows the language well, he can find out about all else.

Cómo se acuerda con los pájaros la traducción de sus idiomas?

Communication across the revolutionary divide is inevitably partial.

Computers are everywhere and you can't even begin to function with a computer unless you have comprehension and an understanding of the English language.

Computer languages of the future will be more concerned with goals and less with procedures specified by the programmer.

Conduct is more convincing than language.

Congratulations, Congress! 77% disapproval rating! You may be about to become the English language's most offensive C-word.

Consensus is usually made possible by vague language and shallow commitments.

Content is built on communication. You can't learn anything if you haven't learned how to understand language, or to read.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, dance is not a universal 'language' but many languages and dialects. There are close to 6000 verbal languages, and probably that many dance languages.

Conversation is a traffick; and if you enter into it, without some stock of knowledge, to ballance the account perpetually betwixtyou,--the trade drops at once: and this is the reasonwhy travellers have so little [good] conversation with natives,--owing to their [the natives'] suspicionthat there is nothing to be extracted from the conversationworth the trouble of their bad language.

Cormac McCarthy's language is perfect. He is in my view the greatest living American prose stylist.

Correct English is the slang of prigs.

C++ tries to guard against Murphy, not Machiavelli.

Crusaders have just f-ked me over what a bas-rd joke, excuse my language I'm absolutely furious.

Culture is more and more consciously becoming a project carried out in the domain of language by, for instance, propaganda both governmental and commercial.

Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means.

Cultures are virtual realities made of language.

Cynicism is our shared common language, the Esperanto that actually caught on, and though I'm not fluent in it - I like too many things, and I'm not envious of enough people - I know enough to get by.

Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money.

Dance is the pure language of the soul - it's been with us from the very beginning.

Dangling punch lines to forgotten stories remain in the language like the smile of the Cheshire cat.

Death is a dramatic accomplishment of absence; language may be almost as effective.

Dialect tempered with slang is an admirable medium of communication between persons who have nothing to say and persons who would not care for anything properly said.

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

Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.

Destroying species is like tearing pages out of an unread book, written in a language humans hardly know how to read, about the place where they live.

Dictionary: a malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Each actor requires a different language.

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