I learned English, my sixth language at this point, quite quickly.
~By Roald Hoffmann ~
So long as we use a certain language, all questions that we can ask will have to be formulated in it and will thereby confirm the theory of the universe which is implied in the vocabulary and structure of the language.
~By Michael Polanyi ~
Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.
~By Andrea Dworkin ~
My least favorite phrase in the English language is "I don't care."
~By James Caan ~
There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
~By Henri Bergson ~
I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.
~By J. R. R. Tolkien ~
If the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless.
~By John Hume ~
I grew up in France, my first language was French, and I tend to gravitate towards French cooking.
~By Robert Stack ~
About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.
~By Edsger Dijkstra ~
I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of content in the world. Language content, musical content, spatial content, numerical content, etc.
~By Howard Gardner ~
The repeal of racist language in the Constitution of Alabama was and still is a necessary step in the state's ability to progress.
~By Artur Davis ~
Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure upon his taste, surround himself with books, all in his own language, and thence forward have at least one place in the world.
~By Augustine Birrell ~
When I'm on TV, I'm often talking to a conservative host. I may have another conservative arguing with me. You've got very limited time, and you're using 'sound-bite' type language.
~By Juan Williams ~
At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language.
~By Lafcadio Hearn ~
One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name.
~By George Saintsbury ~
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
~By Dale Carnegie ~
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 ~
I start with the story, almost in the old campfire sense, and the story leads to both the characters, which actors should best be cast in this story, and the language. The choice of words, more than anything else, creates the feeling that the story gives off.
~By Donald E. Westlake ~
I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and say, 'Hi, how are you?' in their language, they love it. It makes them feel like you're doing it just for them. We in America take so much for granted.
~By Natalie Cole ~
The idea is that the object has a language unto itself.
~By Anish Kapoor ~
In our daily lives as programmers, we process text strings a lot. So I tried to work hard on text processing, namely the string class and regular expressions. Regular expressions are built into the language and are very tuned up for use.
~By Yukihiro Matsumoto ~
The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.
~By Robert Fripp ~
Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence.
~By Robert Smithson ~
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 ~
Our culture, language, history, and values are vital to uniting us as a nation.
~By Bobby Jindal ~
Man is used to the fact that there are languages which he does not at first understand and which must be learned, but because art is primarily visual he expects that he should get the message immediately and is apt to be affronted if he doesn't.
~By Edward T. Hall ~
Arabs respect only the language of force.
~By Moshe Sharett ~
The only problem was that I couldn't communicate with Dario. He speaks Italian and I don't. We had a translator the whole time. I just felt that something was lost with the go between. He was a delightful man, but I wish we could have spoken the same language.
~By Kim Hunter ~
I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England.
~By Guillermo Cabrera Infante ~
War is what happens when language fails.
~By Margaret Atwood ~
It is wrong to use equal language for unequal actions.
~By Peter Akinola ~
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
~By Gore Vidal ~
I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out.
~By Terry Brooks ~
No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful, although English is becoming increasingly international. And travel. You have to have a global attitude.
~By Rupert Murdoch ~
I dislike math, yet I respect and appreciate the fact that math is the language of the universe.
~By Lucas Grabeel ~
I believe that laughter is a language of God and that we can all live happily ever laughter.
~By Yakov Smirnoff ~
Scientific research and other studies have demonstrated that arts education can enhance American students' math and language skills and improve test scores which in turn increase chances of higher education and good jobs in the future.
~By Thad Cochran ~
The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.
~By Thornton Wilder ~
The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.
~By James F. Cooper ~
And, indeed, though they differ concerning other things, yet all agree in this: that they think there is one Supreme Being that made and governs the world, whom they call, in the language of their country, Mithras.
~By Thomas More ~
I am now completing research supported by NSF and NEH that is mapping changes in the English language through all of North America, for both mainstream and minority communities.
~By William Labov ~
Swearing is industry language. For as long as we're alive it's not going to change. You've got to be boisterous to get results.
~By Gordon Ramsay ~
It's my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.
~By Lily Tomlin ~
I've been looking at companies that are on a positive path vs. a negative path and I've come to use the language of sports, winning streaks and losing streaks.
~By Rosabeth Moss Kanter ~
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 ~
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
~By John Erskine ~
Pauley Perrette: I was a criminal science fanatic and went to study it in college as well and I think that helped me on NCIS because I was comfortable with the language, I had studied criminal science in school for years.
~By Pauley Perrette ~
The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
~By Alan Kay ~
Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.
~By Rudolf Arnheim ~
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
~By Gore Vidal ~
Science is the international language, so when we are able to convince countries that good decision-making for human health and animal health is based upon science, that's a real success story for us.
~By Mike Johanns ~
Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
~By William Golding ~
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 ~
I do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not allow me to take.
~By Tahar Ben Jelloun ~
No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
~By Sam Rayburn ~
I thought it was respectful to each country to sing in their language.
~By Nana Mouskouri ~
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 ~
Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.
~By Octavio Paz ~
I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery.
~By Robert Morgan ~
My philosophy is to do the best you can for somebody. Help. It's not just what do you for yourself. It's how you treat people decently. The golden rule. There isn't big anything better than the golden rule. It's in every major religion in one language or another.
~By Art Linkletter ~
Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
~By Henry James ~
It's always been easy with Mark, he's a rock fan and we speak the same language. He's a big Beatles fan too. We worked a lot via CLI calls, though only meeting up once every couple of months.
~By Phil Collins ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?
~By Barbara Ehrenreich ~
We inhabit a language rather than a country.
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground.
~By Diane Wakoski ~
Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language.
~By Joseph Brodsky ~
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
~By Toni Morrison ~
Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of languages.
~By Ferdinand de Saussure ~
Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries.
~By Gilbert Murray ~
I think one of the best words in the English language is compassion. I think it holds everything. It holds love, it holds care... and if everybody just did something. We all make a difference.
~By Michael Crawford ~
Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.
~By Jack Prelutsky ~
Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.
~By Charles Scribner, Jr. ~
My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language.
~By Elfriede Jelinek ~
My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldn't be able to say anything.
~By Howard Hodgkin ~
One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.
~By Naguib Mahfouz ~
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 ~
Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
~By Paul Tillich ~
Words began to appear in English and to make some kind of equivalent. For what satisfaction it is hard to say, except that something seems unusually piercing, living, handsome, in another language, and since English is yours, you wish it to be there too.
~By Robert Fitzgerald ~
When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.
~By Billy Sunday ~
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
~By Ezra Pound ~
Why on earth do we want closer connection with England? We have little in common with English people except our language. We are fast becoming an entirely different people.
~By Henry Lawson ~
I didn't work hard to make Ruby perfect for everyone, because you feel differently from me. No language can be perfect for everyone. I tried to make Ruby perfect for me, but maybe it's not perfect for you. The perfect language for Guido van Rossum is probably Python.
~By Yukihiro Matsumoto ~
National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.
~By Edward Sapir ~
Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.
~By Mark Strand ~
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
~By Larry Wall ~
Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
~By Karl Kraus ~
Language is a social art.
~By Willard Van Orman Quine ~
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
~By George Orwell ~
We believe the Senate language provides for federal subsidies for abortions. Plus there's a language in there where you have to pay one dollar per month, every enrollee, to pay for a fund for reproductive rights which include abortion. And that's totally against federal law. So we are saying take that out.
~By Bart Stupak ~
All the dialogue on tape, and we'd play the tape in performance. Then I thought it'd be interesting if the actor's repeated what they heard on the tape, but at a slower speed, so we'd get a web of language.
~By Richard Foreman ~
The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
~By George Eliot ~
One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
~By John Berger ~
Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.
~By Thom Gunn ~
Richard Hugo taught me that anyone with a desire to write, an ear for language and a bit of imagination could become a writer. He also, in a way, gave me permission to write about northern Montana.
~By James Welch ~
God has stated in clear and concise language how He created the universe and we ought not to doubt His Word.
~By Walter Lang ~
Whitney wanted to eradicate the idea that in the case of a language we are dealing with a natural faculty; in fact, social institutions stand opposed to natural institutions.
~By Ferdinand de Saussure ~
Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.
~By George Orwell ~
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