Best 3547 quotes in «language quotes» category

I don't have any phobias with any language, and I've grown up listening to Anglo-American rock n roll as well as Welsh-language punk rock and I'm all for sharing languages.

I don't know what it is about the french language, it seems to be scared of coming out of the mouth so it comes out the nose instead.

I don't know what the language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called Fortran.

I don't know whose sensibility I'm responding to. Until someone starts pushing against what they've inherited and starts making their own decisions about language, it's difficult.

I don't like reading music. It's like learning a language. You can't read music proficiently overnight. It takes time, it's boring work.

I don't read my reviews, I measure them.

I don't speak anything fluently, but I love picking up languages and I do this Duolingo app. I started when I moved to Sweden, when I was about 19, 20. I really loved the language; it was super melodic and really sexy.

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.

I don't speak ... I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own.

I don't think all poems need to be written in conversational language - those are often great poems but there should also be poems of incoherent bewilderment and muddled mystery.

I don't think I've ever quite grown out of it, actually. There was a point where I could recite some of those Elvish verses - which I've mercifully forgotten. But I can still, if really pushed, recite the text of the inside of the ruling ring in the language of Mordor.

I don't think there's any words in the English language to explain what it's -what it's like to- to sit on Texas death row and your thoughts are laying on that gurney, convicted but innocent and being put to death.

I don't use coarse language very often. I have a larger vocabulary than that.

I don't use those terms [like Uncle Tom], and I would never speak in that kind of language.

I don't write in Portuguese. I write myself.

If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.

I do swear a lot, but the advantage is that having played abroad, I can choose a different language from the referee's.

I do that in whatever language of the country I'm in, because the audience appreciate it.

I do try to incorporate particular rhythmic and generally sonic motifs I discover in music as such, and if one thinks of language in a narrow sense, that, perhaps, suggests a possibility for a rhythmic sensibility that enters poetry from outside of language.

I dream of a language whose words, like fists, would fracture jaws.

I’d thought I knew what beauty was in women; but she’d surpassed all the language I had for it.

If a language is corruptible, then a constitution written in that language is corruptible.

If any Englishman dedicated his life to securing the freedom of India, resisting tyranny and serving the land, I should welcome that Englishman as an Indian.

If apple is the language of the future, then art must be the core.

I feel Mahatma Gandhi's non-violence was for the intelligent, educated British.It was not for those who don't understand this language.

If (early humans) weren't using and refining language I would like to know what they were doing with their autocatalytically increasing brains.

I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.

I feel that music is more flexible than language and your song, or "piece" is only as flexible as your least flexible component.

I feel more Irish than English. I feel freer than British, more visceral, with a love of language. Shot through with fire in some way. That's why I resist being appropriated as the current repository of Shakespeare on the planet. That would mean I'm part of the English cultural elite, and I am utterly ill-fitted to be.

I feel that I speak the musical language.

I feel that Pride and Prejudice is an incredibly well constructed novel on every level. The dialogue is great. The character development is great. The plotting is great. The pacing is great. The language is great.

I felt like I had reached the end of a period of life, where the work was jumping about and pushing something new every time. I wanted to dial it back and create a language that was stable and deep.

If I could have any power, I think flying would definitely be up there! Along with speaking every language.

If God had so wished, he would have made all Indians speak with one language ... the unity of India has been and shall always be a unity in diversity.

If I do not speak in a language that can be understood there is little chance for a dialogue.

I find vocabulary to be a great drawback.

I find righteous denunciations of the present state of the language no less dismaying than the present state of the language.

If I have to do something, I feel I should do it perfectly, and ofcourse, Hindi language is a problem.

I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining

If language is intimately related to being human, then when we study language we are, to a remarkable degree, studying human nature.

If it's racist, it's racist. If it's anti-Semitic, it's anti-Semitic. If it's anti-women, it's anti-women. If it's anti-immigrant, it's anti-immigrant, and we need to really strengthen our language, so that it is clear and not mushy.

If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning.

If I were really fluent and born into the English language, I would probably become a greater writer.

I found in investigative journalism it is always best, if you have any language skills, not to admit them.

If only. The saddest two words in any language.

If only…the saddest words in the English language.

if there's one thing consistent about language it is that it is constantly changing. The only languages that do not change are those whose speakers are dead.

If the Irish programme did not insist on the Irish language I suppose I could call myself a nationalist. As it is, I am content torecognize myself an exile: and, prophetically, a repudiated one.

If there is ever a science of programming language design, it will probably consist largely of matching languages to the design methods they support.

If the world is made of language, then you can hack it in the sense that you can hack code.