Best 3547 quotes in «language quotes» category

Don't tell your friends about your indigestion. "How are you" is a greeting, not a question.

Don't you understand that all language is dead currency? How they keep on playing shop with it all the same.

Do you know what a foreign accent is? It's a sign of bravery.

Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the language in which Keats and the rest of them wrote!

Do you realize how angry you sound?” must be one of the most infuriating questions in the language.

Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.

Dude, the bush is ready. Why you still beating around it?” “I’ve lived a long time, kid, and I’ve never heard anyone mutilate the English language quite like you.

Dutch is not so much a language as an ailment of the throat.

Each actor requires a different language.

Each language has its own temperament; some languages make a poem more dramatic or sad, and others make it more playful.

Each language gives you something different so that's a good enough reason for you to learn it.

Each religion necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself. Religions, like languages, are necessary rivals. What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.

Each routine you read turns out to be pretty much what you expected. You can call it beautiful code when the code also makes it look like the language was made for the problem.

Eating is our earliest metaphor, preceding our consciousness of gender difference, race, nationality, and language. We eat before we talk.

Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.

Eiffel borrows quite openly from several earlier programming languages and I am sure that if we had found a good language construct in C we would have used it as well.

Eighty percent of language lies to us.

Elementary propositions consist of names.

[Emacs] is written in Lisp, which is the only computer language that is beautiful.

Elvis is the greatest cultural force in the twentieth century. He introduced the beat to everything, music, language, clothes, it's a whole new social revolution - the 60's comes from it.

Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.

English, no longer an English language, now grows from many roots.

english doesn't borrow from other languages. english follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.

English has borrowed from everywhere and now goes everywhere.

English is weak in describing emotional states or intensities of interpersonal relationships.

English poetry begins whenever we decide to say the modern English language begins, and it extends as far as we decide to say that the English language extends.

English is a forgiving language. It's not like Classical Arabic and it's not like French. You can speak broken English and be expressive and no one will hold it against you.

English has more flexibility. It's a very plastic, very shapeable, very expressive language. In that sense it feels quite natural.

English is my second language. Laughter is my first.

English is the 'language of liberty' for nations emerging from years of cultural oppression.

English, once accepted as an international language, is no more secure than French has proved to be as the one and only accepted language of diplomacy or as Latin has proved to be as the international language of science.

English, our common language, binds our diverse people.

English is a really wonderful language and I urge you all to investigate it

English is a stretch language; one size fits all.

English is the perfect language for preachers because it allows you to talk until you think of what to say.

Englishmen must learn to be Brahmins, not banias.

English is full of booby traps for the unwary foreigner. Any language where the unassuming word fly signifies an annoying insect, a means of travel, and a critical part of a gentleman's apparel is clearly asking to be mangled.

Esperanto was a very useful language, because wherever you went, you found someone to speak with.

Eternal truth needs a human language that alters with the spirit of the times.

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

Even if someone knew the entire physical history of the world, and every mental event were identical with a physical, it would notfollow that he could predict or explain a single mental event (so described, of course).

Even before I started photography, I began to see that there was a disjunction between available languages and reality.

European languages must not be considered diamonds displayed under a glass ball, dazzling us with their brilliance.

Even if I'm in Japan and I don't speak Japanese and the woman facing me doesn't speak French but she's dressed in Rykiel, and she recognizes me, then we have a common language right away.

Even so, sometimes I wish I did have a little bit more flair in my language.

Even if language is a living evolving organism, we don't have to embrace all the changes that occur during our lifetimes. If language is so alive, it can get sick.

Even though language has its richness the relationship between language and the writer is always like a stone and you have to make the stone human.

Even though we can't communicate using the same language, we use music instead.

Everybody has a language or code that they use with their wife or their girlfriend or boyfriend or what have you. It's a language aside from the language they have with strangers.

Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.