Best 3547 quotes in «language quotes» category

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.

Truth and falsity is something that concerns language, it's a property of language.

Twitter is most suitable for me. In the Chinese language, 140 characters is a novella.

Two nations divided by a common language.

Two monologues do not make a dialogue.

Typography is what language looks like.

Typography tended to alter language from a means of perception and exploration to a portable commodity.

Typography at its best is a visual form of language linking timelessness and time.

Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels.

Under the tropic is our language spoke, And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our yoke.

Unencountered Language is the court and spark between words we recognize and those we don't.

Understanding that these statements do not represent reality, we should not be threatened by the language that he has used.

Unintelligible language is a lantern without a light.

Unkind language is sure to produce the fruits of unkindness--that is, suffering in the bosom of others.

Unlike the ambiguity of life, the ambiguity of language does reach a limit.

Urdu can not die out because it has very strong roots in Persia. The language itself is not only just the language of the Muslims, but it's also the language of the Hindus.

Usage is the best language teacher.

Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy.

Vague expression permits the hearer to imagine whatever suits him and what he already thinks in any case.

Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such.

Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.

We agree that language functions in a certain way so that we can understand each other; but within that are built all sorts of sentimental codes, codes of authenticity, codes of certain kinds of emotion.

Was there a little time between the invention of language and the coming of true and false?

Visual journaling allows us to access our inner language of imagery and express it both verbally and visually, while exploring the connection between image and word.

Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect?

We always translate the other person's language into our own language.

We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.

We are like travellers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs. Whilst we see that it always stands ready to clothe what we would say, we cannot avoid the question whether the characters are not significant of themselves.

We are at a time in our country's history that inclusive language is better than exclusive language.

We are facing an external attack against us, which is more dangerous than any other previous wars... We are dealing with those who are extremists, who only know the language of killing and criminality.

We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.

We are obliged to steal pieces of language, both visual and textual.

We are not taught to think decently on sex subjects, and consequently we have no language for them except indecent language.

We are not voting for health care if we do not resolve this language on public funding for abortion - no public funding for abortion.

We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.

We are spectacular splendid manifestations of life. We have language. We have affection. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music.

We are storytelling creatures, and as children we acquire language to tell those stories that we have inside us.

We boast of our freedom, and we have your example for it. We talk the language we have always heard you speak.

We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.

We cannot be divided either by the languages we speak, by the faiths we profess or by the political views we choose.

We can move no faster than the evolution of our language, and this is certainly part of what the psychedelics are about: they force the evolution of language.

We cannot even reproduce our thoughts entirely in words.

We communicate all the time, even when we don't realize it. Be aware of body language

We cannot think without language, we cannot process experience without story.

We didn't say anything because there was such an awful lot to say, and no language to say it in.

We exchanged many frank words in our respective languages.

We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate of matrimony.

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.

We don't realize how much we create reality through language. If we say that life is hard, it will be hard.

We have language and they do not. Chimps communicate by embracing, patting, looking - all these things. And they have lots of sounds. But they cannot sit and discuss. They cannot teach about things that are not present, as far as we know.