Language Quotes

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.

I get along with all the women singers, but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly language.

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 do know where I'm going and it's just a matter of finding the language to get there.

I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own, ideally.

Music is a language, you see, a universal language.

Nothing exists except through language.

It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish.

I love that you can have the language between the two worlds of technology and fashion, because I don't think that many designers get to do that.

Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness.

Ever since I was a kid, I just loved those comedians on TV who would just have fun with the language.

To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.

My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the words I play with has to expose their true meaning against their will so to speak.

I think somebody who speaks the language is going to notice immediately that I'm not Russian.

America's strength is not our diversity; our strength is our ability to unite people of different backgrounds around common principles. A common language is necessary to reach that goal.

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

That helped me to keep in touch with myself and to keep in touch with this really quite extraordinary language and literature into which I had pushed a little way.

Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.