No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
~By Sam Rayburn ~
So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.
~By Thomas Lynch ~
When I left Barcelona, staying in Spain was an important factor in my decision to join Madrid. I did not have to change country or learn a new language, adopt a different sort of lifestyle, and so on.
~By Luis Figo ~
I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.
~By Diane Wakoski ~
What's great is that because math is such a universal language, really, our fans come in all shapes and sizes, all ages and genders and races and backgrounds and cultures.
~By David Krumholtz ~
We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
~By Booker T. Washington ~
Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels.
~By Willard Van Orman Quine ~
A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages... in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy.
~By Thomas Reid ~
The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages.
~By Jacques Derrida ~
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
~By Alan Perlis ~
Of course the other and more serious way in which it all happens is that one finds in poems and language some quality one appropriates for oneself and wishes to reproduce.
~By Robert Fitzgerald ~
Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.
~By Steven Pinker ~
I can't recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open - any discussion on the matter tended to mention languages whose inventors tried to keep tight control, and consequent ill fate.
~By Dennis Ritchie ~
In general, every country has the language it deserves.
~By Jorge Luis Borges ~
Bunny boiler is now part of our language, and I'm proud of that.
~By Glenn Close ~
Now, it's my belief that Python is a lot easier than to teach to students programming and teach them C or C++ or Java at the same time because all the details of the languages are so much harder. Other scripting languages really don't work very well there either.
~By Guido van Rossum ~
The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God.
~By Charles Stanley ~
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 ~
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
~By John Erskine ~
Now multitudes of root words are identical in the American languages over vast areas some of them with precisely the same senses, and others with various shades of analogical meaning.
~By John W. Dawson ~
What gives it its human character is that the individual through language addresses himself in the role of the others in the group and thus becomes aware of them in his own conduct.
~By George H. Mead ~
That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.
~By Hans Kung ~
Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information.
~By Dee Hock ~
Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up.
~By Herb Ritts ~
As thy days, so shall thy strength be which, in modern language, may be translated as thy thoughts so shall thy life be.
~By Emmet Fox ~
These examples of the lack of simplicity in English and French, all appearances to the contrary, could be multiplied almost without limit and apply to all national languages.
~By Edward Sapir ~
Our culture, language, history, and values are vital to uniting us as a nation.
~By Bobby Jindal ~
French was my first language.
~By Bob Cousy ~
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
~By Ben Jonson ~
Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.
~By Robert E. Lee ~
Between 1910 and 1950 approximately 350 lives of Jesus were published in the English language alone.
~By John Clayton ~
I have a good ear for languages.
~By Harry Dean Stanton ~
People who passionately want to believe that the world is basically simple react to this with a fury that goes beyond what I consider appropriate for discussing a programming language.
~By Bjarne Stroustrup ~
Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because they won't get it later on.
~By Harrison Salisbury ~
Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness.
~By Michael Polanyi ~
I don't really read as much as I used to. A lot of what I was looking for as an escape I find in writing. And the other thing is that I don't want to get into someone else's language when I'm working.
~By Alice Hoffman ~
Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity.
~By John McGahern ~
Feelings or emotions are the universal language and are to be honored. They are the authentic expression of who you are at your deepest place.
~By Judith Wright ~
You know, they were returning to the language of the people and trying to use musical language, particularly as Copland did to create a musical language in which all Americans would feel that they had a stake.
~By Michael Tilson Thomas ~
We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that he deserved to suffer what he did suffer is to do violence not merely to language but to any healthy moral sense.
~By Andrew Coyle Bradley ~
Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the language of science.
~By John Charles Polanyi ~
The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
~By Maria Montessori ~
The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable language.
~By Donald Knuth ~
Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.
~By Herbie Hancock ~
The idea of a language more simple than ours.
~By John Dudley ~
For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.
~By Deborah Tannen ~
Language expresses people's thinking and it was by a Word that God created the world and preserves it.
~By Walter Lang ~
Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.
~By Walt Disney ~
Will you, my countrymen, the descendants of these men, warmed by their blood, inheriting their language, and having the principles for which they struggled confided to your care, allow them to be violated in your hands?
~By Joseph Howe ~
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 languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.
~By Jean Anthelme Brillat Savarin ~
The language of my books has shaped me as a man.
~By Don DeLillo ~
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 ~
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 ~
Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.
~By Carol Ann Duffy ~
Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
~By Noam Chomsky ~
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
~By Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
Language is froth on the surface of thought.
~By John McCarthy ~
Two races share today the soil of Canada. These people had not always been friends. But I hasten to say it. There is no longer any family here but the human family. It matters not the language people speak, or the altars at which they kneel.
~By Wilfrid Laurier ~
The radio was my big influence. Comedy came from the instinctual feel I had for language.
~By Dominic Chianese ~
Because of the Turing completeness theory, everything one Turing-complete language can do can theoretically be done by another Turing-complete language, but at a different cost. You can do everything in assembler, but no one wants to program in assembler anymore.
~By Yukihiro Matsumoto ~
Urdu can not die out because it has very strong roots in Persia. The language itself is not only just the language of the Muslims, but it's also the language of the Hindus.
~By Ismail Merchant ~
For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.
~By Joseph Brodsky ~
We breathed the air of freedom without knowing the language or any person.
~By Nelly Sachs ~
Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.
~By Flora Lewis ~
I woke up find a rather noisy multi-lingual meeting going on. This was great as everyone could participate and even though everything had to be translated into about four different languages it never became boring. After a while the meeting broke up and everyone went for food.
~By John Blair ~
Both French and Latin are involved with nationalistic and religious implications which could not be entirely shaken off, and so, while they seemed for a long time to have solved the international language problem up to a certain point, they did not really do so in spirit.
~By Edward Sapir ~
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 ~
I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.
~By Tahar Ben Jelloun ~
In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social factors, one's own language above all.
~By Edward Sapir ~
I'm not trying to stump anybody... it's the beauty of the language that I'm interested in.
~By Buddy Holly ~
Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.
~By Robert Morgan ~
I learned English, my sixth language at this point, quite quickly.
~By Roald Hoffmann ~
Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.
~By Jeanette Winterson ~
It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection.
~By Edward Sapir ~
I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.
~By Frantz Fanon ~
Playing golf is like learning a foreign language.
~By Henry Longhurst ~
It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
~By Thomas Hardy ~
The most beautiful words in the English language are 'not guilty'.
~By Maxim Gorky ~
Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
~By Gwendolyn Brooks ~
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 ~
The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century and able to read this language. It makes any list meaningless except the list of an illiterate.
~By John Sladek ~
But those two plays left me on fresh terms with language. I didn't always have to speak in my own voice.
~By James Merrill ~
I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.
~By Gustave Flaubert ~
He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish.
~By Jose Rizal ~
I have my own language and it's high time I put a little of it out there.
~By Paul Westerberg ~
Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.
~By Paul Tillich ~
As we embrace the American dream and the freedoms it represents, we must also ensure that those who wish to enjoy those freedoms become a part of our society and learn to speak our language.
~By Bobby Jindal ~
It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language.
~By David Chalmers ~
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
~By Noam Chomsky ~
Even if I think in English, it's more a language of acting than French.
~By Sophie Marceau ~
You may imagine the joy manifested by these poor Africans, when they heard one of their own color address them in a friendly manner, and in a language they could comprehend!
~By Lewis Tappan ~
We can lie in the language of dress or try to tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.
~By Alison Lurie ~
If your kids attend school and grades are up that will make $1,000 contributions to some 10,000 kids across the country, are challenging kids to learn foreign languages or challenging kids to get summer jobs or seek summer enrichment opportunities?
~By Harold Ford ~
I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.
~By Larry Niven ~
Disappointment over nationalistic authoritarian regimes may have contributed to the fact that today religion offers a new and subjectively more convincing language for old political orientations.
~By Jurgen Habermas ~
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 ~
No language is rude that can boast polite writers.
~By Aubrey Beardsley ~
The language of the moment or, as it were, the language of the order in which we live, is the image. I felt that if I wanted to commune with the public, I should best do so through the language of image. It's a conscious embrace of a contradiction.
~By Godfrey Reggio ~
It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to master a foreign language if you're not brought up with it.
~By Max von Sydow ~
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