Top 1200 Language Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Earth is a place where language has literally become alive. Language has infested matter; it is replicating and defining and building itself. And it is in us.

As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the human language is the possibility of lying.

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

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.

The poem is the literary form of the 21st century. It's able to connect young people in a deep way to language... it's language as play.

So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to make films without words.

The Biblical worldview is not given to us in the discursive and analytical language of philosophy and science, but in rich and compact language of symbolism and art.

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

Shepherds know many mysterious languages; they speak the language of sheep and dogs, language of stars and skies, flowers and herbs.

I think we're still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate.

My dad is a minister, and my mum is a worker with the less fortunate and the disabled. They're Nigerian natives. Their first language is Yoruba, and their second language is English.

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

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

Metaphors, similes, puns - all manner of metonymy - I'm interested in language that cannot be parsed by a machine - language that can only be understood through acculturation.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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 more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it.

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

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

Would have. Could have. Should have. This is the language of condemnation underscored by the passivity of regret. It’s a dead language. The thing is, you can’t un-sin. You can only repent.

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.

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

The research carried out in the area of language technology is of utmost importance for the consolidation of Portuguese as a language of global communication in the information society.

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

Poetry is the art of using language to transcend language.

People think that digital language is a fixed language, but it's not: it's very fluid. It's like I'm doing a painting where the paint refuses to dry.

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.

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.

When the media's around, I try to be careful. I don't want to make a mistake or use bad language, and I have to really concentrate because of the language barrier.

Language is not a barrier, specially Hindi. It is the only language I read, write and speak in and so it is far easier than South Indian languages.

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

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.

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.

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

...he learned the most important part of the language that all the world spoke-the language that everyone on earth was capable of understanding in their heart. It was love.

Even if language is a living evolving organism, we don't have to embrace all the changes that occur during our lifetimes. If language is so alive, it can get sick.

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.

Notes and chords have become my second language and, more often than not, that vocabulary expresses what I feel when language fails me.

We sift reality through screens composed of ideas . (And such ideas have their roots in older ideas.) Such idea systems are necessarily limited by language , by the ways we can describe them. That is to say: language cuts the grooves in which our thoughts move. If we seek new validity forms (other laws and other orders) we must step outside language.

Language uses us as much as we use language.

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.

Every language teaches you something, so learning a language is never wasted, especially if it's different in more than just syntactic trivia.

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

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.

when Christian theology becomes traditionalism and men fail to hold and use it as they do a living language, it becomes an obstacle, not a help to religious conviction. To the greatest of the early Fathers and the great scholastics theology was a language which, like all language, had a grammar and a vocabulary from the past, but which they used to express all the knowledge and experience of their own time as well.

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 moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form.