Best 3547 quotes in «language quotes» category

When I get on the internet and hide behind a false identity, and then allow that hiding to free me from the standards of decency, to begin to use language I would never use in front of my mother, all of a sudden, there's nothing between me and you, but worse than that, there's nothing between me and my worst self.

When I go to photograph somebody, they say, "What do you want me to do?" Those are the most frightening words in the English language. I want to say, "Please, go over into good light and do something unusual.

When I'm drafting right to life language, I don't call up the nuns.

When I said. A rose is a rose is a rose. And then later made that into a ring I made poetry and what did I do I caressed completely caressed and addressed a noun.

When I say that we have met the Martians and they are us, I am using colorful language to suggest that we may have been seeded in the process of panspermia.

When I started writing my stories, I thought that not only nobody outside my language, but nobody outside my neighbourhood would get them.

When I started writing seriously in high school, English was the language I had at my disposal - my Spanish was domestic, colloquial, and not particularly literary or sophisticated.

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.

When I tour with a band, things get more unconscious and more automatic as the tour goes on. Music has to be like natural speech. It's probably like learning a foreign language. Thinking about the use of pronouns is not the passionate part of communicating with people.

When it's done with being graceful and poetic, language is meant to communicate, after all.

When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It's nourishing; it's rejuvenating.

When money gets too far away from actual, physical, real equity and property it gets too abstract and too distantly derived and then suddenly it's not worth anything anymore. And the same is true of language.

When my books were translated, it was always about the characters, because the unique language aspect was lost in translation.

When speech is divorced from speaker and word from meaning, what is left is just ritual, language as ritual.

When the heart speaks, its language is the same under all latitudes.

When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.

When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.

When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time slowly evolved.

When you choose a language, you're choosing more than a set of technical trade-offs-you're choosing a community.

When we developed written language, we significantly increased our functional memory and our ability to share insights and knowledge across time and space. The same thing happened with the invention of the printing press, the telegraph, and the radio.

When we talk mathematics, we may be discussing a secondary language built on the primary language of the nervous system.

When you hear somebody speaking in an accent, it's almost like they're invading your language while they're speaking to you because if you hear someone speak another language, you almost don't care. But when they speak your language with an accent, it feels like an invasion of something that belongs to you. And, immediately, we change.

When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.

When you're around your family, and you have that history and that shared language, you say things you'd be embarrassed to hear quoted back to you later.

When your language is nowhere near Turing-complete, syntactic sugar can be your friend.

When you're reading from a different language that's different from your own, it's not the same as being fluent.

When you're selling a product or service, you don't have - it doesn't have to be absolutely perfect, although I've provided language that is. When you're a politician, one wrong word changes the entire - changes the meaning of something.

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.

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

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.

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.

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?

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

Who would recognize the unhappy if grief had no language?

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

With books we stand on the shoulders of giants.

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

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