Best 3547 quotes in «language quotes» category

Further, I'm obsessed with how language contorts and creates bodies.

Geek it's really more a characteristic where you don't socialize. You don't talk the normal languages.

Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught.

Geometry in every proposition speaks a language which experience never dares to utter; and indeed of which she but halfway comprehends the meaning.

George Orwell once blamed the demise of the English language on politics. It's quite possible he never read a prospectus.

Given Loughner's obsession with meaninglessness and language, maybe Foucault & Derrida deserve some fault here, too.

Give your mind a chance to travel through foreign languages.

God doesn't expect us to perform for him. He loves us always-when we're disappointed or hurt or making a mess of things. Sometimes we speak to him in a language that only he can understand. What matters to him is that we are vulnerable, that we are completely ourselves. We are work, too, but God cherishes us.

God has stated in clear and concise language how He created the universe and we ought not to doubt His Word.

Go learn the language. Go take some acting lessons. Start from zero like everybody else.

Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.

Good design, at least part of the time, includes the criterion of being direct in relation to the problem at hand - not obscure, trendy, or stylish. A new language, visual or verbal, must be couched in a language that is already understood.

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Good temper and moderation are the characteristics of parliamentary language.

Good translations are one of the vital necessities of our time.

Gore speaks to America as if English is its second language; George W. speaks as if English is his second language.

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.

Grammar is not a set of rules; it is something inherent in the language, and language cannot exist without it. It can be discovered, but not invented.

Grammar is the analysis of language.

Grammar, perfectly understood, enables us not only to express our meaning fully and clearly, but so to express it as to enable us to defy the ingenuity of man to give to our words any other meaning than that which we ourselves intend them to express.

Grasp the subject, the words will follow.

Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries.

Had the Bible been in clear straightforward language, had the ambiguities and contradictions been edited out, and had the language been constantly modernised to accord with contemporary taste it would almost certainly have been, or become, a work of lesser influence.

Has it ever occurred to you,' he said, 'that the whole history of English poetry has been de-termined by the fact that the English language lacks rhymes?

Hands have their own language.

Hath any wounded thee with injuries? Meet them with patience. Hasty words rankle the wound; soft language dresses it.

Hash, x. There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is. Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable. Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.

Having an international voice is not really about whether we speak Persian or any other language.

Hebrew is this unique thing that you cannot translate to any other language. It has to do with its history.

He is, I think, already pondering a magisterial project: that of buggering the English language, the ultimate revenge of the colonialised.

He could hardly read or write but his heart spoke the language of the good

He foresaw that she would be very much more useful to him in the character of a free woman.

He knows that the most important words in all languages are the small words.

Hebrew is deeply inspired by other languages.

He left Chainsaw behind, much to her irritation. Ronan didn't want her to learn any bad language.

He wanted to think of words that would make some difference but there were none in any language he knew that were sufficient to the moment or that would change a single thing.

He never labored so hard to learn a language as he did to hold his tongue, and it affected him for life. The habit of reticence — of talking without meaning — is never effaced.

Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly all its successors.

Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.

[Heraclitus' language] dispenses with lightness and artificial decoration, foremost out of disgust for humanity and out of [his own] defiant feeling.

Here the term 'language-game' is meant to bring into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity, of a form of life.

He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god.

He who has learned what is commonly considered the whole art of painting, that is, the art of representing any natural object faithfully, has as yet only learned the language by which his thoughts are to be expressed.

He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes along with superficial knowledge.

He wished she knew his impressions; but he would as soon have thought of carrying an odour in a net as of attempting to convey the intangibilities of his feeling in the coarse meshes of language. So he remained silent.

He would always speak the language of the heart with an awkward foreign accent.

He who has two languages has two souls.

He will essentially follow the language of the spectacle, for it is the only one he is familiar with.

Horrible that you could write in a language so well, but have nothing meaningful to say.

Hispanics speak Spanish or Portuguese, which are languages we Americans are familiar with, so it doesn't seem to pose the same types of problems as Arabic-speaking Muslims do in Europe.