Language Quotes

Nor do I think that any other nation than this of Wales, nor any other language, whatever may hereafter come to pass, shall on the day of severe examination before the Supreme Judge, answer for this corner of the earth.

To have another language is to possess a second soul.

I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes.

It's my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.

My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation.

Language is the dress of thought.

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

I was also in love with the English language.

The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.

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.

We wanted the language to feel fresh, fun, and rock solid.

Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

Following my junior year in high school, I went on a camping trip through Russia in a group led by Horst Momber, a young language teacher from Roosevelt.

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.

My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.

It's just incredible. When you're French, coming from a non-English language country, you don't even dream about Oscar recognition or nominations. It's just beyond the dream. It's something very, very special and unique. It's the highest recognition any filmmaker could dream of.

I want to keep talking about my people and my country in my own language.

I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.

The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet.

My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.

Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.

Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence.

God has stated in clear and concise language how He created the universe and we ought not to doubt His Word.

You know, we have main English language parties, federalist parties, and traditionally the ones to watch would be the Conservatives, who form the government, and then the Liberals.

You know, when it was done originally, they always had to fight to keep it going at the end of each season. Now, The Odd Couple has become part of our language and culture.

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.