Top 1200 Language Acquisition Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

There are four great measures for my administration - a reduction of tariff, an independent treasury, settlement of the Oregon boundary and acquisition of California.

Yiddish, the language which will ever bear witness to the violence and murder inflicted on us, bear the marks of our expulsions from land to land, the language which absorbed the wails of the fathers, the laments of the generations, the poison and bitterness of history, the language whose precious jewels are the undried, uncongealed Jewish tears.

Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.

I have nothing against diamonds, or rubies or emeralds or sapphires. I do object when their acquisition is complicit in the debasement of children or the destruction of a country.

I tell my students to think of poems as language plus, language with value added beyond its everyday use.

Instead of this confusion, we need the unifying force of an official language, English, which is the language of success in America.

The acquisition however perfectly of skills is not an end in itself. They are things to be put to use as a contribution to a common and shared life.

It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.

The language that nature speaks is the same language that we invented for mathematics. That's just an amazing piece of luck, which we don't understand.

The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by chance, not system.

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

If you care about being thought credible and intelligent, do not use complex language where simpler language will do.

To me the drawn language is a very revealing language: one can see in a few lines whether a man is really an architect.

Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.

It's really hard when you read literature in a language that's not your own. There are all these cultural references you have to be born into that particular language to get.

The body is a very low level machine language. The language of the soul, of the mind, is much more evolved.

It's not that Perl programmers are idiots, it's that the language rewards idiotic behavior in a way that no other language or tool has ever done.

There's almost no content in terms of language at all. I don't like using language to convey meaning. I'd rather use images and music.

Astrology is a language. If you understand this language, the sky speaks to you.

Job Control Language is the worst programming language ever designed anywhere by anybody for any purpose.

My goal as a theologian is to move beyond the acquisition of knowledge to its application in real life: in a word, I want to get wisdom.

Language is as old as consciousness, language is practical, real consciousness that exists for other men as well, and only therefore does it also exist for me; language, like consciousness, only arises from the need, the necessity, of intercourse with other men.

A programming language is like a natural, human language in that it favors certain methaphors, images, and ways of thinking.

I think of myself as a translator. I just change the dry, unfeeling language of data into a visual language that allows for feeling.

When people say that German or any other language is romantic... all they really mean is that they've enjoyed a past in the language

Grammar is not a set of rules; it is something inherent in the language, and language cannot exist without it. It can be discovered, but not invented.

Just as the blessings of God are unutterably great, so their acquisition requires much hardship and toil undertaken with hope and faith.

For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.

Those who use language and have nothing but language to express themselves live in a cage that cannot feel comfortable.

Learning a language represents training in the delusions of that language.

The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise?

It took a pretty drastic moment to shift my thinking towards visual arts. I got to a moment in my writing career when I wasn't trusting the language, I was really not trusting the written language, the English language. How do you work with a material that you don't have trust in? I had to step away from it and find another way of articulating and I had to do it without words.

I started my career in Naval Intelligence when I entered as a Russian language interpreter sent to DLI, the Defense Language Institute.

Art is inspiring. Walking into a gallery, or when the lights go up on a stage; that thrill of getting something that has nothing to do with acquisition.

Sarah Buckley is precious, because she is bilingual. She can speak the language of a mother who gave birth to her four children at home. She can also speak like a medical doctor. By intermingling the language of the heart and the scientific language she is driving the history of childbirth towards a radical and inspiring new direction.

I didn't have Marathi as a language in school. My second language was French.

Here the term 'language-game' is meant to bring into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity, of a form of life.

Put a symbol, or language of some sort, in a painting and it will be noticed by the viewer whether or not they can read that particular language.

The language of tones belongs equally to all mankind, and melody is the absolute language in which the musician speaks to every heart.

The language of the novel differs from the just-the-facts language of the old tales. It's robust and earthy, sometimes even baroque.

Language uses us as much as we use language.

Gone. The saddest word in the language. In any language.

Poetry is the art of using language to transcend language.

When you act, you want to emote and think in that language. I don't enjoy the process of doing a film in a language I am not good with.

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.

The language skill in the U.S. for the most part has been awful. Many Americans don't learn any foreign language.

The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.

I trained to become a sign-language interpreter because it helps you read physical expression and the emotions of body language.

I think it'd be pretty cool to fly. Actually, I'd like to be Language Gal. My super power is that I can speak every language.

It's my language, the language I speak. I've spent a lot more time playing music than talking or writing.

The language surrounding cancer is not language I'm particularly comfortable with.

A language is not just a body of vocabulary or a set of grammatical rules. ... Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind.

The Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons would be infinitely more costly than any scenario you can imagine to stop it.

The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgment should always be placed foremost, not the acquisition of special knowledge.

French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy.

There are very few places in the world where you have to learn a language with no language in common. It's called a monolingual field situation.

I am an actor and I don't have any language barrier. If I get a Tamil film, I will learn the language. It's not a problem.

The language of the heart is mankind's main common language.

America is not a nation of separation. All our citizens are Americans. The common denominator is our language. Our language is English. The glue that binds generation after generation is both our Constitution and our English language.

Language is so inherent to humanity, so necessary for even basic thinking, that stories and poetry are available to anyone who can process language.