Best 3547 quotes in «language quotes» category

Name, no, nothing is nameable, tell, no, nothing can be told, what then, I don't know, I shouldn't have begun.

National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.

Natural languages generally are not designed by humans, they're just designed by the participants and you say something new and somebody else says, "Oh, that's a cool way to say it," and the next thing you know, everyone is saying it because it's shiny.

Naturally, my body language changes given whatever environment I'm in.

Native speakers of a language know intuitively whether a sentence is grammatical or not. They usually cannot specify exactly what is wrong, and very possibly they make the same mistakes in their own speech, but they know-unconsciously, not as a set of rules they learned in school-when a sentence is incorrect.

Nature is the common, universal language, understood by all.

Nature is written in mathematical language.

Negotiating with memories isn't easy: how to choose between those panting to be told, those still ripening, those already shriveling, and those destined to be mangled by language and come out pulverized?

Neither the mouse nor the boy was the least bit surprised that each could understand the other. Two creatures who shared a love for motorcycles naturally spoke the same language.

Net - the biggest word in the language of business.

Never ask a woman if you may kiss her. Instead, learn to read body language.

Next to ‘God’, ‘love’ is the word most mangled in every language.

Nobody in my family or in my neighborhood used the language that they used at the University of Chicago. I remember the first time I heard the word "value" repeated again and again by my professor. Value to me was the price of a frying pan.

Nobody is capable of of free speech unless he knows how to use language, and such knowledge is not a gift: it has to learned and worked at.

Nobody knows everything-one of the pleasures of language is that there is always something new to learn-and everybody makes mistakes.

No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge

No language is rude that can boast polite writers.

No language exists that cannot be misused... Every Interpretation is hypothetical, for it is a mere attempt to read an unfamiliar text.

No intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated.

No language which lends itself to visualizability can describe quantum jumps.

No' is the second shortest word in the English language, but one of the hardest to say.

No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.

Non-co-operation is a movement intended to invite Englishmen to co-operate with us on honourable terms or retire from our land.

No matter what your cultural sophistication or what language you speak, everyone can understand images.

No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.

No one can create a noteworthy work without knowing the tenets of their own language and literature. Language is renewed but it never changes its essence, because the contracts that have come about over time for communication cannot be rescinded so easily.

Non-reaction is a language that everyone understands. It communicates to the offender and causes him to be upset with the upset that he intended for you.

No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.

No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.

No one likes my books except the public.

No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language.

No statement about God is simply, literally true. God is far more than can be measured, described, defined in ordinary language, or pinned down to any particular happening.

No, she wasn't losing language. She was choking on it.

Nothing in a language is less translatable than its modes of understatement.

Notes and chords have become my second language and, more often than not, that vocabulary expresses what I feel when language fails me.

Nothing in life is fair. Fair is a dirty word and I'll thank you not to use that language around me.

Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.

Not literature alone, but society itself is wormed and rotten when language ceases to be respected not merely by advertisers and politicians, but by persons of learning and authority.

Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors.

Not only are animals unable to avail themselves of language to assert their own rights, but many fewer humans have a clear sense of kinship with animals than have a clear sense of kinship with other humans. Among beings with subjective states of awareness, animals are the untouchable caste, those whom human others would rather not acknowledge, let alone render assistance.

Nothing which is harmonized by the bond of the Muse can be changed from its own to another language without destroying its sweetness

No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality.

Novels are more difficult simply because they are longer and require more juggling, but short stories are closer to perfection, if you can get the language right.

Obviously, it's some kind of freely commanded modality in the psyche with which we can have a relationship if we will but evolve a control language and a dialogue. And it remains mysterious.

Numbers are really fascinating things, and they do play a big part in our lives. They are a language of their own.

Now, I'm not the only language designer with irrationalities. You can think of some languages to go with some of these things.

Numbers constitute the only universal language.

Obviously, there is pleasure in the execution of any sort of art, and using language, as Nabokov felt also, is an exquisite process.

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

Of course language arose in a Darwinian biological world, because that's all there is, but that world relates only superficially to the pop-biology that circulates informally.