Language Quotes

We have forgotten that we have not come to an empty land to inherit it, but we have come to conquer a country from people inhabiting it, that governs it by the virtue of its language and savage culture.

My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature's laws, these tasks and principles are indifferent to language, culture, gender, or the particular mode of information that is provided.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

We must examine then the concerns of the Government of Japan about the language of the treaty itself - of SOFA - and of the interim and further arrangements that have been made since 1995, and see whether or not we need to make any changes. Those are decisions I cannot make.

Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.

As basic rules of a language must be practiced continually, and therefore are never fixed, so exercises toward distinct color effects never are done or over. New and different cases will be discovered time and again.

Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt.

The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all to know the culture of our country. They find a kind of French social grace in the language and culture.

Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification.

I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.

I have seen how effective language attached to policies that are mainstream and delivered by people who are passionate and effective can change the course of history.

I can't recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open - any discussion on the matter tended to mention languages whose inventors tried to keep tight control, and consequent ill fate.

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.

Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information.

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

We breathed the air of freedom without knowing the language or any person.

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.