Best 3547 quotes in «language quotes» category

When you speak, ask questions. Don't lecture.

When you speak a new language you must see if you can translate all of the poetry of your old language into the new one.

When you work in a different language you are not so attached to the words.

Whereas smaller computer languages have features designed into them, C++ is unusual in having a whole swathe of functionality discovered, like a tract of 19th century Africa.

Where shall we look for standard English, but to the words of a standard man?

Wherever illiteracy is a problem, it's as fundamental a problem as getting enough to eat or a place to sleep.

Whether consciously or not, sexist God language undermines the human equality of women made in the divine image and likeness.

Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understanding of her language

Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows.

Whoa, lady, I only speak two languages, English and bad English.

Whoever has power takes over the noun - and the norm - while the less powerful get an adjective.

Whoever you are, you've got to start from where you are. If you're a sailor, and only know sailor's language, well, write in it, for God's sake.

Why the connection with musicians? I think it's because in the end we're doing very similar things - we're telling stories, we're using poetic, lyrical language, and we're distilling stories down into their simplest form. We're both telling a story in two languages - word and music for them; and word and image for me.

Who would recognize the unhappy if grief had no language?

Why should I just limit myself to the Urdu language? Why not sing in different languages?

Why would you have a language that is not theoretically exciting? Because it's very useful.

Will America be the death of English? I'm glad I asked me that. My well-thought-out mature judgment is that it will.

Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our Language or Customs, any more than they can acquire our Complexion.

With .NET once an API is published it's available to all programming languages at the same time.

With books we stand on the shoulders of giants.

Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.

With children who have never said a word, parents tend to assume, for better or for worse, that there isn't any language there.

Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don't have a passport.

With today's movies, if we took out all the bad language, we'd go back to silent films.

With the cure, relationships are all the same, and rules and expectations are defined. Without the cure, relationships must be reinvented every day, languages constantly decoded and deciphered. Freedom is exhausting.

With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.

Women are the simple, and poets the superior, artisans of language... the intervention of grammarians is almost always bad.

Women's body language speaks eloquently, though silently, of her subordinate status in a hierarchy of gender.

Words are like planets, each with its own gravitational pull.

Words are coin. Words alienate. Language is no medium for desire. Desire is rapture, not exchange.

Words are the weak support of cold indifference; love has no language to be heard.

Words performed through music can express what language alone had exhausted

Words have power. Use the language of leadership versus the vocabulary of a victim.

Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it.

Words never mean what we want them to mean.

Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work.

Words, do not have twins in every language. Sometimes they only have distant cousins, and sometimes they pretend that they are not even related.

Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language.

Words were written out for me phonetically. I learned to quack in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese and German.

Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea.

Words may be false and full of art; Sighs are the natural language of the heart.

Working with language is a means by which we can identify the bullshit within ourselves (and others).

Working with the Latin language is pretty powerful. Working with a language that is not spoken vernacularly is intense.

Words are containers for power

Would have. Could have. Should have. This is the language of condemnation underscored by the passivity of regret. It’s a dead language. The thing is, you can’t un-sin. You can only repent.

Writing is the hardest work in the world. I have been a bricklayer and a truck driver, and I tell you – as if you haven't been told a million times already – that writing is harder. Lonelier. And nobler and more enriching.

Writing in a foreign language - has brought me to the cries of the women silently rebelling in my youth, to my own true origins.

Writing a poem is always a process of subtracting: you start with all of language available to you, and you choose a smaller field.

Writing is not an end in itself but life transmuted into radiance.

Writers are not mere copyists of language; they are polishers, embellishers, perfecters. They spend hours getting the timing right so that what they write sounds completely unrehearsed.