Language Quotes

I want a language that speaks the truth.

Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.

The heart of the matter seems to me to be the direct interaction between one's making a poem in English and a poem in the language that one understands and values. I don't see how you can do it otherwise.

In this respect I suppose I'm the total opposite of Garry. With his very emotive body language at the board he shows and displays all his emotions. I don't.

My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldn't be able to say anything.

So far as the advocates of a constructed international language are concerned, it is rather to be wondered at how much in common their proposals actually have, both in vocabulary and in general spirit of procedure.

To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions.

When I'm on TV, I'm often talking to a conservative host. I may have another conservative arguing with me. You've got very limited time, and you're using 'sound-bite' type language.

To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.

Over the years, I've trained myself to speak using the same language I would use if I were typing: meaning using full sentences in the way that paragraphs and scenes are arranged.

The difference between a contemporary liberal and a socialist is that to a liberal the most beautiful word in the English language is 'forbidden', whereas to a socialist the most beautiful word is 'compulsory'.

It doesn't happen very often that you get to work with some really good friends of yours and there's a common language between everyone, you don't have to explain what you're doing, you can just run with it. It makes it just so much easier and more relaxed.

The supposed inferiority of a constructed language to a national one on the score of richness of connotation is, of course, no criticism of the idea of a constructed language.

Because of the Turing completeness theory, everything one Turing-complete language can do can theoretically be done by another Turing-complete language, but at a different cost. You can do everything in assembler, but no one wants to program in assembler anymore.

You have to think an awful lot about your motivations or people's behavioral intentions or what their body language can indicate or what's really going on or what makes people sometimes do, sometimes, the irrational things they do.

Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved with the handwriting and then the look of the handwriting.

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.

I would love to do a period piece - in the 18th or 17th century. To me, it would be such an incredible challenge because of the way people carried themselves. There are so many incredible stories within those centuries - just the language and the way they carried themselves and what they were going through.

Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.

Duty is the most sublime word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less.

Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families.

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

Words may be false and full of art; Sighs are the natural language of the heart.

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.

While a people preserves its language; it preserves the marks of liberty.

Now, mark it. This may be strong language, but heed it. The people mean it, and, my friends of the Eastern Democracy, we bid farewell when you do that thing.

You know, they were returning to the language of the people and trying to use musical language, particularly as Copland did to create a musical language in which all Americans would feel that they had a stake.

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.