Language Quotes

A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen.

With the requests of some he complied, and has published a discourse, delivered before the Society for recovering drowned persons, which may be justly pronounced one of the most beautiful and interesting sermons in the English language.

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier.

On what rests the hope of the republic? One country, one language, one flag!

A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness.

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

I would say colonialism is a wonderful thing. It spread civilization to Africa. Before it they had no written language, no wheel as we know it, no schools, no hospitals, not even normal clothing.

The importance of an artist is bringing new signs into a language.

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.

Our approach was very simple. It was about creating a universal language. A show that will be attractive toward every people coming from all over the world. And that was a big thing.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you're getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.

Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back.

Instead of this confusion, we need the unifying force of an official language, English, which is the language of success in America.

It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than I should in terms of the usage of the English language.

Americans can pretty much sing anything, whereas foreign singers are often limited in style, language, even composer.

I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.

Why does there exist a global American entertainment industry, but there isn't an equivalent coming from France or Italy? This is the case simply because the English language opens the whole world to the American cinema.

A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.

I use the language I use to my friends. They wouldn't believe me if I used some high-flown literary language. I want them to believe me.

The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!

Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.

Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.

Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.

The one overall structure in my plays is language.

Between France and Senegal there's a history. There's a language that we both speak. There's a culture that we share and to which both of our peoples have contributed. But beyond our history, beyond our language, beyond the links that have united us for so long, what unites us today is the future.

He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish.

I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc.