Top 1200 Language Acquisition Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

We are not taught to think decently on sex subjects, and consequently we have no language for them except indecent language.

We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.

Poems are a form of music, and language just happens to be our instrument - language and breath.

Sci-Fi is incredibly challenging and has its own language. I have to speak its language; it's not going to learn mine.

The science of the modern school ... is in effect ... the acquisition of imperfectly analyzed misstatements about entrails, elements, and electricity.

We like to pile language on language. Hunter [ S. Thompson] was an influence on me, no doubt about it.

If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls.

However virile the English language may be, it can never become the language of the masses of India.

I think it's important if you're American to have a second language, and Spanish is the language to have.

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

We have only the language for fun and miserable, and maybe we need language for deep and shallow, meaningful and meaningless.

Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.

The language of men was involved with only one hemisphere in order to leave the other free for the language of the gods.

The Hawaiian language needs to be studied globally as a language of life.

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is the language I don't understand.

This word "LOVE" - discredited, "clicheed" - can be restored and love, the instinct, the impulse to care for somebody in the hope that somebody will care for you - plus our language, the language, a language - is about all we have. With everything else going on, this is what makes us, what keeps us human.

Language is an art, like brewing or baking.... It certainly is not a true instinct, for every language has to be learnt.

All the best bands have a language, and what they say within that language makes it is what it is.

Language both reflects and shapes society. Culture shapes language and then language shapes culture. Little wonder that the words we use to talk to each other, and about each other, are the most important words in our language: they tell us who I am, they tell us who you are, they tell us who 'they' are.

The culture cannot evolve faster than the language. The language is the flashlight that shows the path.

I learned that to be amusing was not to be frivolous and that language - always the language - was the magic key as much to prose as to poetry.

Isn’t the most sensitive point of this mourning the fact that I must lose a language — the amorous language? No more ‘I love you’s.

Every language will have different nuances. But language cannot be the basis for discrimination or exclusion.

Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.

If we have listening ears, God speaks to us in our own language, whatever that language be

Dance is so important in the world. It needs no language. Our bodies speak a language of its own.

The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.

Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written, we learn the language.

The traditional statement about language is that it is in itself living, and that writing is the dead part of language.

I watched the gorilla's eyes again, wise and knowing eyes, and wondered about this business of trying to teach apes language. Our language. Why? There are many members of our own species who live in and with the forest and know it and understand it. We don't listen to them. What is there to suggest we would listen to anything an ape could tell us? Or that it would be able to tell us of its life in a language that hasn't been born of that life? I thought, maybe it is not that they have yet to gain a language, it is that we have lost one.

I love using a targeted acquisition approach in conjunction with a business that has a clear strategy and strong organic growth.

I think the acquisition of consumers might be on the verge of being mapped. The battlefield is going to be retention and lifetime value.

You should do whatever language you feel is the perfect language for you to sing in and then try to strive to do the best.

The acquisition of the most elementary truth does not devolve upon the individual alone: it is pre-effected in the development of the race.

If an acquisition can speed a process or fill a gap, we'll jump right to that. It's about timing, need... it's not necessarily an algorithm.

Not bad in short, though the last one [understanding the language of animals], isn't half as useful as you might expect, since when all's said and done the language of the beasts tends to revolve around: a) the endless hunt for food, b) finding a warm bush to sleep in the evening, and c) the sporadic satisfication of certain glands. (Many would argue that the language of human kind boils down to this too)

It’s daunting to find the language so foreign, so distant, but also so thrilling. One is absolved of responsibility when the language is incomprehensible.

When we talk mathematics, we may be discussing a secondary language built on the primary language of the nervous system.

Truth and falsity is something that concerns language, it's a property of language.

I love the French language... it's a delightful language, especially to curse with. It's like whopping your ass with silk.

Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature.

I'm Language Gal. I can speak any language presented to me. And I look exactly like Halle Berry.

Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality.

Realistically, English is a universal language; it's the number one language for music and for communicating with the rest of the world.

The world speaks of holy things in the only language it knows, which is worldly language.

When experience flies into realms that language cannot touch, honesty demands beyond-language.

Even if you're a genius and you invent your own language, it doesn't become a language until there are people using it.

What I am doing is creating a language. A different American language.

Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively.

paraphrasing.."Science is the language of the intellect of society. Art is language of the entire human personality.

Silence is God's language, and it's a very difficult language to learn.

The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.

Poetry seems to be the only weapon able to beat language, using language's own means.

When a publisher spends an inordinate amount on an acquisition, it will do everything in its power to make that project a market success.

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

It is music that, being the universal language, has no need to learn any particular language of the world.

We are at a time in our country's history that inclusive language is better than exclusive language.

If you know only one language, you're a prisoner, stuck in the tyranny of that one language.

The artist appeals to that part of our being...which is a gift and not an acquisition - and, therefore, more permanently enduring.

Design is just language and the real issue is what you use that language to do.