Best 3547 quotes in «language quotes» category

With books we stand on the shoulders of giants.

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.

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

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

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

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

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 containers for power

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

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 performed through music can express what language alone had exhausted

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.

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.

XML is not a language in the sense of a programming language any more than sketches on a napkin are a language.

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

Written forms obscure our view of language. They are not so much a garment as a disguise.

Yes, the mistrust of poetry has a long history, for a variety of reasons, but they all come down to sentiment and invention over fact and truth. Figurative language is suspicious.

You can be obsessed by remorse all your life, not because you chose the wrong thing- you can always repent, atone : but because you never had the chance to prove to yourself that you would have chosen the right thing.

You can only photograph a fragment of the here and now. The photograph presents the world as object; language, the world as idea.

You can compare it to dreams: you have a very specific and individual pictorial language that you either accept or that you can translate rashly and wrongly. Of course, you can ignore dreams, but that would be a shame, because they're useful.

You cannot write in more than one language. Words don't come out as well.

You can prove anything by mentioning another computer language.

You cannot rise about your words. A lot of people use foul, pornographic, filthy, language and you SEE, all of those words paint pictures and they reveal the internal thinking of the person on the inside. YOU cannot RISE (forward, onward upward) above your words.

You can't address yourself to women by speaking a language which no average woman will understand. In my opinion, it's wrong.

You cannot use butterfly language to communicate with caterpillars

You can't show me a sentence, word, or phoneme that is meaningless; by its nature, language is packed with meaning and emotion.

You can't listen to all that language and filth without it affecting you

You can't eat language but it eases thirst.

You don't actually have to understand the song to be emotionally moved and uplifted, whereas with language it becomes quirky and analytical.

You couldn't have human society without language.

You need good principles and good language if you are to succeed.