Best 3547 quotes in «language quotes» category

Your inner voice whispers, but speaks the loudest.

Your language indicates──and limits──what you think.

Your language looks like a treasure map,' she said, 'if you forget all the rest of the letters and focus in on the x, it looks as if you could find out where the treasure is.

Your thoughts are certain kinds of seeds in your life. You can water them and allow them to grow on fertile soil. Or, you can let them diminish and wither amongst the weeds. Be careful that your seeds are not contaminated as they begin to take root.

You see, I’m a juggler with words myself.

You should never let a word control you, intimidate you, or make you uncomfortable, and that applies to people of all races. Intent is where insult lies, and hate. Not in language.

You will criticize me, reader, for writing in a style six hundred years removed from the events I describe, but you came to me for explanation of those days of transformation which left your world the world it is, and since it was the philosophy of the Eighteenth Century, heavy with optimism and ambition, whose abrupt revival birthed the recent revolution, so it is only in the language of the Enlightenment, rich with opinion and sentiment, that those days can be described. You must forgive me my ‘thee’s and ‘thou’s and ‘he’s and ‘she’s, my lack of modern words and modern objectivity. It will be hard at first, but whether you are my contemporary still awed by the new order, or an historian gazing back at my Twenty-Fifth Century as remotely as I gaze back on the Eighteenth, you will find yourself more fluent in the language of the past than you imagined; we all are.

95% on content and the computer language remains the same.

A $200 million contract just got awarded to develop software to provide the Department of Defense with all these sock puppets who have fake Twitter and Facebook accounts. Why not create ten fake Libyan Twitter users and then get one journalist to follow them. But the problem is, of course, it corrupts the entire process. One of the caveats is that anything they write is going to be in a foreign language so it won't affect Americans. But that doesn't make any sense because: A) it can be translated pretty easily, and B) Americans also speak other languages.

A basic language-literacy of Nature is falling from us. And what is being lost along with this literacy is something perhaps even more valuable: a kind of language-magic, the power that certain words possess to enchant our imaginative relations with Nature and landscape.

Above all, translators must be native speakers. It’s not because they speak the language better – I understand that sometimes a foreigner can learn a language better than native speakers. It has more to do with intimate knowledge of the society for which the book is being translated.

Abstraction is an esoteric language.

Abstraction is itself an abstract word and has no single meaning ... Every word in our language is abstract, because it represents something else.

A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax; no greater liability than a command of language.

Accounting is the language of business.

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.

A change in language can transform our appreciation of the cosmos.

A cliché is like a coin that has been handled too much. Once language has been overly handled, it no longer leaves a clear imprint.

A common language is the most obvious binding element in any society.

A cliche is like a coin that has been handled too much. Once language has been overly handled, it no longer leaves a clear imprint.

Actually, my correspondent's language is better than mine. He can put his sentiment into words.

A crease found it's way onto Joss's forehead. Because he was certain that Sirus was wrong. Girls were more complicated than boys. Girls communicated in a language that only they understood. And Joss wasn't sure at all that he would ever understand them.

A critic is a person who rationalizes his likes and dislikes in such impressive language that the layman thinks he is reasoning instead of rationalizing.

Actually, that's one of the things I like most about my job: There isn't much of a day-to-day. For example, last week, I was flying with the RCAF, flying CF-18s. Today, I was going through my annual physical. I take language classes, I learn robotics and spacewalking, so every week is different.

A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection - not an invitation for hypnosis.

A dictionary can embrace only a small part of the vast tapestry of a language.

Afrikaans is my first language, although you would never know, as my English accent has more of an American-British thing going on from all my years of travelling.

Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal

A foreign observer is struck by our gentleness: by the orderly behaviour of the English crowds, the lack of pushing and quarrelling, the willingness to form queues.

A French politician once wrote that it was a peculiarity of the French language that in it words occur in the order in which one thinks them.

After meeting the family, they really felt like a sitcom family, ... I thought it would be cool if we did a reality show, but told it with the visual language of a sitcom format.

Africa. There are a gazillion different languages people speak there, different bone structures, so vast and different.

After all, nothing helps to write lyrics more than to mess around with the language.

After an extensive interview he arranged for my weaknesses in foreign languages to be over-looked and so I started a Biology degree at Birmingham in 1967.

After we have made our requests known to Him, our language should be, "Thy will be done". I would a thousand times rather that Gods' will should be done than my own.

Agosins poetic language engages the reader in a mesmerizing journey of inward reflection and exile.

A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest.

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.

A gloss is a total system of perception and language.

A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.

A great artist can really enter the logic of any particular mazurka and fully understand the language of Chopin's music.

A language, like a species, when extinct, never... reappears.

A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages with it.

A language not based on universal symbols or sensations is gibberish, a pitfall of modern art, no longer modern.

A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do

A language is a map of our failures

[Albert Camus] really did know Algeria. He was an exile from his country, but still living in its language. Solitaire et solidaire. It's not like those who are exiled to a country where the language is not theirs.

A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.

A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs.

Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language.