Best 3547 quotes in «language quotes» category

As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene.

A standard international language should not only be simple, regular, and logical, but also rich and creative.

As thy days, so shall thy strength be which, in modern language, may be translated as thy thoughts so shall thy life be.

As they say in Discworld, we are trying to unravel the Mighty Infinite using a language which was designed to tell one another where the fresh fruit was.

Astrology is a language. If you understand this language, the sky speaks to you.

As we read a text in our own language, the text itself becomes a barrier.

As we embrace the American dream and the freedoms it represents, we must also ensure that those who wish to enjoy those freedoms become a part of our society and learn to speak our language.

As was his language so was his life.

As writers we need to crack open language.

As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.

As you know, there are certain languages that lend themselves very easily to vocal use.

A tale should be judicious, clear, succinct; The language plain, and incidents well link'd; Tell not as new what ev'ry body knows; and, new or old, still hasten to a close.

At all periods of the [English] language it is difficult to assign a beginning date to most new words and meanings. They tend to slip into the language silently, and are placed in date order only when scholars subsequently get to work.

At a priesthood meeting... the strongest language in regard to Plural Marriage was used that I ever heard, and among other things it was stated that all men in position who would not observe and fulfill that law should be removed from their places.

A text conversation is a short exchange of often grossly truncated language that corresponds to a thought made all the more shallow by the process.

A thing well said will be wit in all languages.

A thug only understands you when you speak his language

At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language.

A translator is essentially a reader and we all read differently, except that a translator's reading remains in unchanging print

A translation can never equal the original; it can approach it, and its quality can only be judged as to accuracy by how close it gets.

Attempting to build a language wall around Quebec is precisely the wrong policy to follow. It will keep out of Quebec exactly what we need to attract by way of talent and capital; it will drive our best - francophones as well as allophones and anglophones, with their talents and capital - to leave Quebec.

At some point in the next century the number of invented languages will probably overtake the number of surviving natural languages.

At the end of the day, flirting is a pretty universal language. Americans are more direct. British people are more indirect about everything

At Ungaro, I discovered the flou and the language of Paris.

Average. It was the worst, most disgusting word in the English language. Nothing meaningful or worthwhile ever came from that word.

A wheel that can be turned though nothing else moves with it, is not a part of the mechanism.

A written discourse on any subject is bound to contain much that is fanciful.

Baseball is a universal language. Catch the ball, throw the ball, hit the ball.

Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it.

Bad writing is bad not just because the language is humdrum, but the quality of the observation is so poor.

Bad impulse buys make you feel grim, don't they? It's like having consumer Tourette's. I gravitate towards austere foreign-language film DVDs when insecure.

Beauty is undefinable in language. It's something that you see when you see it, or you feel when you feel it, or you hear when you hear it. It usually encompasses all five of the senses. It can't exist without it being a somehow sensorial experience. But, I don't think it's quantifiable. Nothing is really quantifiable. Nothing is certain in love and friendship. We all try to understand these things.

Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here.

Beauty is part of the finished language by which goodness speaks.

Be careful. I wouldn’t want anything to happen to the worst Spanish student in the history of the language.” I laughed. “No problemo.

Because English is the universal language. No matter where you come from, if you sing in English, you can cross over to the world.

Beautiful books are always written in a sort of foreign language.

Because education is such a broad area, I chose to focus on language learning.

Because Music is a language that lives in the spiritual realms, we can hear it, we can notate it and create it, but we cannot hold it in our hands

Because of our kinship in suffering, our channels of contact have always been charged with the language of the heart.

Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.

Because there'd be two languages I couldn't speak, French and English.

Being a pianist allows me to play in any language.

Being a writer requires an intoxication with language.

Before we got engaged, he never farted. Now it's a second language.

Besides language and music, mathematics is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind.

Better than chanting a thousand words in a dead language is one soothing word spoken in the vernacular.

Being that can be understood is language.

Better say nothing at all. Language is worth a thousand pounds a word!

Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you.