Language Quotes
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
Galileo Galilei -
There is a loving way with words and an unloving way. And it is only with the loving way that the simplicity of language becomes beautiful.
Margaret Wise Brown
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The language of truth is simple.
Euripides -
No two of us learn our language alike, nor, in a sense, does any finish learning it while he lives.
Willard Van Orman Quine -
Lo, each subculture has its own language, and verily I am not a parody. You don’t believe me? Get with the program, crackpot!
Barry Webster -
A silver speaks it's own language, does it not?
Conn Iggulden -
A change in language can transform our appreciation of the cosmos.
Benjamin Lee Whorf -
The photo collage is a way to travel that must be used with skill and precision if we are to arrive... The collage as a flexible hieroglyph language of juxtaposition: A collage makes a statement.
William S. Burroughs
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The Kurds know that they won't achieve their own state by force of arms but through international recognition. And they have certainly heard what the German foreign minister said in connection with the arms deliveries: There is no Kurdish state. But that shouldn't prevent the Kurds from continuing to develop their own institutions. Still, the best thing for them would be to remain a part of Iraq, but in return we must treat them with respect - their nationality, their language and their culture.
Ahmed Chalabi -
If you don’t have at least a working knowledge of the Hawaiian language… you can’t chant well. You cannot… receive the images of poetry paints for you. It’s like having peas and no pod.
Keali'i Reichel -
Reason" in language - oh, what an old deceptive female she is! I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
I'm just being honest about the fact that a second language won't resonate with you like the first does.
Karin Tidbeck -
I feel that as the world becomes more and more multicultural, it's a good tool to be able to speak another language.
Sarah Shahi -
Language makes infinite use of finite media.
Wilhelm von Humboldt
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Not only is the Universe aware of us, but it also communicates with us. We, in turn, are constantly in communication with the Universe through our words, thoughts, and actions. The Universe responds with events. Events are the language of the Universe. The most obvious of those events are what we call coincidence.
Chris Prentiss -
I certainly like that the Spanish language is spoken around me.
Andrew Breitbart -
paraphrasing.."Science is the language of the intellect of society. Art is language of the entire human personality.
Naguib Mahfouz -
Let me stop there, but my God, how beautiful Shakespeare is, who else is as mysterious as he is; his language and method are like a brush trembling with excitement and ecstasy. But one must learn to read, just as one must learn to see and learn to live.
Vincent Van Gogh -
Every language has its own music.
Sid Caesar -
What the eye is to the lover — that particular, ordinary eye he or she is born with - language - whatever language history has made his or her mother-tongue — is to the patriot. Through that language, encountered at mother's knee and parted with only at the grave, pasts are restored, fellowships are imagined, and futures dreamed.
Benedict Anderson
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When language in common use in any country becomes irregular and depraved, it is followed by their ruin and degradation. For what do terms used without skill or meaning, which are at once corrupt and misapplied, denote but a people listless, supine, and ripe for servitude?
John Milton -
In language clarity is everything.
Confucius -
Armstrong was the key creator of the mature working language of jazz. Three decades after his death and more than three-quarters of a century since his influence first began to spread, not a single musician who has mastered that language fails to make daily use, knowingly or unknowingly, of something that was invented by Louis Armstrong.
Dan Morgenstern -
Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.
Rumi