Best 3547 quotes in «language quotes» category

My book would come out in one language, then it would come out in another language, then it would come out in One City, One Read, and I was always being called away from my desk.

My culture and my language have the right to exist, and no one has the authority to dismiss that.

My dad is a minister, and my mum is a worker with the less fortunate and the disabled. They're Nigerian natives. Their first language is Yoruba, and their second language is English.

My early education was in the public school system of Omaha, where, retrospectively, I realize that my high school training served me in good stead for the basic subjects of mathematics, English, foreign languages and history.

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.

My father thought a novel was a broken short story. There's something to that. Many of my favorite novels are novellas. The authors of brief things must reckon with the precision of language.

My favorite programming languages are Lisp and C. However, since around 1992 I have worked mainly on free software activism, which means I am too busy to do much programming. Around 2008 I stopped doing programming projects.

My favorite three words in the English language are: ’I don’t know’, because every time I say them, I learn something new.

My favourite films are in languages I don't understand.

My feeling is, music is a more eloquent international language than Coca-Cola or McDonalds.

My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.

My French definitely improves the more I drink, as I worry less and less about absolutely perfect grammar. I do speak and understand the language, just not particularly well.

My grandfather, mother and father were gifted verbally, and my mother passed that along to me. She always made sure I was conscious of language and words.

My heart rebels against any foreigner imposing on my country the peace which is here called Pax-Britannica.

My homeland is the portuguese language.

My interest in language is steadfast, but I think each project and its accompanying intentions dictate how language must be used.

My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldnt be able to say anything.

My language! heavens!I am the best of them that speak this speech. Were I but where 'tis spoken.

My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.

My least favorite phrase in the English language is 'I don't care.'

My love of the British is equal to that of my own people.

My mind works like Google for images. You put in a key word; it brings up pictures. See language for me narrates the pictures in my mind.

[My mother tongue is] Albanian. But, I am equally fluent in Bengali (language of Calcutta) and English.

My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention.

My mum made a conscious decision not to teach me any Indian languages so I wouldn't talk with an accent.

My natural tendency is to fall in love with language and character and setting, and kind of forget about pacing. Narrative tension doesn't come naturally to me, and if it does feel fast-paced that makes me incredibly happy.

My opinion is that more languages you speak, better it is, but but when you come to America, you speak English.

My own view is that one cannot be religious in general any more than one can speak language in general; at any given moment one speaks French or English or Swahili or Japanese, but not 'language.

My personal religion enables me to serve my countrymen without hurting the English or, for that matter, anybody else.

My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language

My plea is for banishing the English language as a cultural usurper, as we successfully banished the political rule of the English usurper.

My poems and prose are not often in direct conversation with each other, but there's so much crossover - everything that comes out of that crucible of language - that working in poetry and prose is energizing - to me as a writer and to the work itself.

My plays have been translated into all of the official languages of South Africa except Afrikaans.

My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness.

My response to my friend Naheed Nenshi was simply to say that some of the hyperbolic language that's being used to critique this sensible reinforcement of the public nature of the citizenship oath is, I think, unhelpful, and is actually inflaming the situation.

Myspace alone has just over 80 million users and ranks as the sixth most popular English language website and the eighth most popular site in the world.

My stories do have plot. They're not just scattered language; they're controlled, toward an end.

My subconscious speaks in a foreign language.

[Nabokov's] language is made visible . . . like a veil or transparent curtain. You cannot help seeing the curtain as you peek into the intimate rooms behind.

My version of relativism is pluralistic and attributes functions to morality that in combination with human nature place limits on what could count as a true morality. Unlike many other relativists, I do not hold that people are subject to a morality because they all belong to a certain group. That is, I don't hold that being a member of a group makes one's subject to some set of generally accepted norms. What is true is that others around us teach us morality and moral language, so they inevitably influence us.

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.

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

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.

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.

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?

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

Nature is written in mathematical language.

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.

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