Best 3547 quotes in «language quotes» category

The logic of the poet - that is, the logic of language or the experience itself - develops the way a living organism grows: it spreads out towards what it loves, and is heliotropic, like a plant.

The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells.

The mathematical sciences wield their particular language made of digits and signs, no less subtle than any other.

The media must be used effectively to reach the masses. You have to find a new language in which to address the people and demonstrate what is possible.

The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the glow of its life.

The more languages you know, the less likely you are to become a terrorist.

The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it.

The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.

The most disgusting four letter word in the English language is 'cage'.

The most difficult step in the study of language is the first step.

The most difficult thing is that I don't speak Mandarin and I had this experience - of working in a language that I don't understand - before and it's really horrible. Eighteen years ago, I played a mute in one film because I couldn't speak Mandarin. There was another film where I had to speak Vietnamese. It's horrible!

The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.

The most important tool you have on a resume is language.

The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood.

The most meaningless term in the English language is "I take full responsibility." When a politician utters those words it means absolutely nothing.

The most important word in the language of the working class is "solidarity.

The most important word in the English language is hope.

The most important words in the English language are not 'I love you' but 'it's benign.'

The mystery lies in the use of language to express human life.

The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet

The official language of the State of Illinois shall be known hereafter as the American language, and not the English language.

The nature of language may determine what most people say, but I always speak my own meaning.

The noblest deeds are well enough set forth in simple language; emphasis spoils them.

The N-word is one of the most contentious words in the English language.

The old adage, that "music is a universal language", is really true.

The only authors whom I acknowledge as American are the journalists. They, indeed, are not great writers, but they speak the language of their countrymen, and make themselves heard by them.

The only international language in the world is a child's cry.

The only love language is 'die to self.'

The new, old, and constantly changing language of politics is a lexicon of conflict and drama?ridicule and reproach?pleading and persuasion.

The older you get, the more power you have with language as a writer, which means that you have to be extra responsible for what you say, whether it's in print or in front of a microphone, because those words can go out and kill or go out and plant seeds for peace.

The one overall structure in my plays is language

The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!

The only language she could speak was grief. How could he not know that? Instead, she said, "I love you." She did. She loved him. But even that didn't feel like anything anymore.

The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.

The only thing that exists is torment, lyricism, and the magnificence of language.

The philosopher caught in the nets of language.

The original language of Christianity is translation.

The pen is the language of the soul; as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings.

[The poet] is endowed to speak for those who do not have the gift of language, or to see for those who - for whatever reasons - are less conscious of what they are living through. It is as though the risks of the poet's existence can be put to some use beyond her own survival.

The Opera reminds me of my tax audit. It was in a language I didn’t understand. And it ended in tragedy.

The painting cannot be laid aside even for a day; for it takes constant work to keep 'flowing,' but above that it takes concentration, which in our language is consecration.

The piano is really the featured instrument of a 10-piece chamber orchestra. The construction is the harmonic language.

The poet is a master of language, the schizophrenic is a slave to it.

The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand We are the servants of an unknown force that lives within us, manipulates us, and dictates this language to us.

The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened.

The poets are the standard bearers of language. Their work lives or dies word by word. When I write and can hear a clunky sentence, I try to write up to the poetry that I have recited beforehand.

The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak.

The power of nature exists in its silence. Human words cannot encode the meaning because human language has access only to the shadow of meaning.

The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language.

The precision provided (or enforced) by programming languages and their execution can identify lacunas, ambiguities, and other areas of potential confusion in conventional [mathematical] notation.