Language Quotes

A mind enclosed in language is in prison.

What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit of America.

When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.

Information comes through to me in 3 basic ways seen, hearing, and feeling the energy of the person that's crossed over. In which it is a symbolic type of language.

Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.

I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet.

Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan.

The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism.

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.

We assume, to begin with, that the individual is at least as complex in his internal structure as the language is which he speaks - otherwise, how could he speak a language which is complex?

When I took part in European leaders summits, it was sometimes unpleasant for me to hear Romanian, Polish, Portuguese, and Italian friends speak English, although I admit that on an informal basis, first contacts can be made in this language. Nevertheless, I will defend everywhere the use of the French language.

I'm not a lawyer, and maybe I should have used more specific legal language.

I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet's language at that point in history, and so it's even more exciting when you read a poet like Yeats, almost 100 years old now, and you think that perhaps no one can really top that.

Love can be understood only "from the inside," as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it.

You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language.

At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler.

I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to intrigue and hook a reader.

If you're going to learn a new language, you can't try to be perfect. You'll stop yourself from talking. You just have to let go.

However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.

Writers let themselves be enticed by the language.

Often when you get a really good script, and you receive the new pages, you see that the entire thing has been dumbed down. Films in the '30s and '40s, that were huge blockbusters, were very sophisticated in their language, and the ideas they brought. There were no questions about whether the audience would get it or not.

I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.

When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.

Cormac McCarthy's language is perfect. He is in my view the greatest living American prose stylist.

Swearing is industry language. For as long as we're alive it's not going to change. You've got to be boisterous to get results.

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.

Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never saw it, or certainly those who formed his tradition never saw it, in characters on the pages. It was all on the tongue and in the ear.

I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out.