Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.
~By Jimmy Breslin ~
Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.
~By Johann G. Hamann ~
You have to learn the language of Hamlet.
~By Edward Bond ~
What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. And I did all this myself.
~By Steve Wozniak ~
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
~By Alan Perlis ~
Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.
~By Elizabeth Bowen ~
Language is the dress of thought.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.
~By Joyce Carol Oates ~
He was one of those inexplicable gifts of nature, an artist who leaps over boundaries, changes our nervous systems, creates a new language, transmits new kinds of joy to our startled senses and spirits.
~By Jack Kroll ~
Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic.
~By Eric Allin Cornell ~
Know what the old masters did. Know how they composed their pictures, but do not fall into the conventions they established. These conventions were right for them, and they are wonderful. They made their language. You make yours. All the past can help you.
~By Robert Henri ~
I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
Now, mark it. This may be strong language, but heed it. The people mean it, and, my friends of the Eastern Democracy, we bid farewell when you do that thing.
~By Richard Parks Bland ~
A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
Anyone interested in the world generally can't help being interested in young adult culture - in the music, the bands, the books, the fashions, and the way in which the young adult community develops its own language.
~By Margaret Mahy ~
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
~By Gaston Bachelard ~
In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system.
~By Ralph Fiennes ~
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
~By Alan Perlis ~
I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language.
~By Harry Mathews ~
That helped me to keep in touch with myself and to keep in touch with this really quite extraordinary language and literature into which I had pushed a little way.
~By Robert Fitzgerald ~
The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.
~By Hans-Georg Gadamer ~
Language is the house of the truth of Being.
~By Martin Heidegger ~
I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath.
~By Lynn Abbey ~
If the president is going to use so much language of theology and the Bible, then let's use that language for a serious discussion about the war in Iraq. And that was never done.
~By Jim Wallis ~
The language you are about to hear... is disturbing.
~By Dave Chappelle ~
I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes.
~By Mark Strand ~
I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out.
~By Katherine Dunn ~
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
~By Gaston Bachelard ~
A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen.
~By Paul Graham ~
The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened.
~By Gerard Manley Hopkins ~
It's always better to speak the language of the team. Not only for the direct contact with everyone - sometimes it also helps you to understand the mentality of the people in the team a bit better.
~By Alain Prost ~
I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc.
~By Diane Wakoski ~
The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. Not just in a 'free beer' kind of way, but also in the free speech kind of way.
~By Jimmy Wales ~
Languages are true analytical methods.
~By Antoine Lavoisier ~
Harmony is an obscure and difficult musical science, but most difficult to those who are not acquainted with the Greek language; because it is necessary to use many Greek words to which there are none corresponding in Latin.
~By Marcus V. Pollio ~
Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.
~By Balthus ~
Restoring the Welsh language in Wales is nothing less than a revolution. It is only through revolutionary means that we can succeed.
~By Saunders Lewis ~
As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scen.
~By Jacques Derrida ~
Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families.
~By Keith Henson ~
Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier.
~By Louise Bogan ~
Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.
~By Cesar Chavez ~
We've already recognized that it is absolutely essential for British children to learn other languages and we will be working hard to put further strategies in place to ensure this.
~By John Whitehead ~
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
Support for alternate languages will largely depend on the underlying OS.
~By Bill Hayden ~
Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions.
~By John Langdon ~
There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a particular language or style and become real sharks on somebody else's language.
~By Steve Lacy ~
Certain things were deemed to be offensive. It was usually bad language.
~By Timothy West ~
I'm not a lawyer, and maybe I should have used more specific legal language.
~By Sonny Bono ~
The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.
~By Derek Walcott ~
If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code.
~By Clifford Geertz ~
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
~By Mark Twain ~
A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.
~By Diane Ackerman ~
Music is the soul of language.
~By Max Heindel ~
Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.
~By Gail Godwin ~
If I have to do something, I feel I should do it perfectly, and ofcourse, Hindi language is a problem.
~By Soundarya ~
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.
~By Mike Fitzpatrick ~
Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.
~By Ferdinand de Saussure ~
Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.
~By Walt Disney ~
95% on content and the computer language remains the same.
~By Steve McConnell ~
I don't know what 'operational control' of the border means, but I do understand the English language. And as I understand that phrase, that's not true. We do not have operational control.
~By John Cornyn ~
Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects?
~By Sergei Eisenstein ~
Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground.
~By Diane Wakoski ~
People come from around the world and can understand each other without even speaking the same languages!
~By Sergei Bubka ~
After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?
~By Russell Hoban ~
I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
~By Lily Tomlin ~
As you know, there are certain languages that lend themselves very easily to vocal use.
~By Neville Marriner ~
In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!
~By Ivan Turgenev ~
Well it is sometimes difficult to act in another language.
~By Sophie Marceau ~
Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved with the handwriting and then the look of the handwriting.
~By Patti Smith ~
It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
~By Thomas Hardy ~
Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness.
~By Michael Polanyi ~
Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
~By Rita Dove ~
To have another language is to possess a second soul.
~By Charlemagne ~
When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time slowly evolved.
~By Lytton Strachey ~
Writers let themselves be enticed by the language.
~By Peter Bichsel ~
The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow the order of things.
~By Giambattista Vico ~
No important national language, at least in the Occidental world, has complete regularity of grammatical structure, nor is there a single logical category which is adequately and consistently handled in terms of linguistic symbolism.
~By Edward Sapir ~
We breathed the air of freedom without knowing the language or any person.
~By Nelly Sachs ~
I was always influenced by language.
~By Helen Dunmore ~
For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not.
~By Ian Hamilton Finlay ~
Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head.
~By Robert Smithson ~
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
~By Ben Jonson ~
I think it's linked to the realisation that we're not going to live forever and that the way of saying and the language become more important than the story.
~By John McGahern ~
The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
~By Maria Montessori ~
I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor.
~By Max von Sydow ~
Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language.
~By Ed Markey ~
God has stated in clear and concise language how He created the universe and we ought not to doubt His Word.
~By Walter Lang ~
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
~By Ludwig Wittgenstein ~
You know, when it was done originally, they always had to fight to keep it going at the end of each season. Now, The Odd Couple has become part of our language and culture.
~By Brett Somers ~
In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed it.
~By Jacques Derrida ~
I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.
~By Barbara Kruger ~
For us chess players the language of artist is something natural.
~By Vladimir Kramnik ~
I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet's language at that point in history, and so it's even more exciting when you read a poet like Yeats, almost 100 years old now, and you think that perhaps no one can really top that.
~By Diane Wakoski ~
Speech happens to not be his language.
~By Madame de Stael ~
The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.
~By Lydia M. Child ~
A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness.
~By Joseph Lancaster ~
The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in clarity, and in restraint.
~By Lytton Strachey ~
All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care.
~By Bart Stupak ~
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