Language Quotes

• A data structure is just a stupid programming language.

  

  Bill Gosper
  • Stupid
  • Structure
  • Programmers

• When you write a great song, it just blows you away. When you write a song that connects with people around the world - I mean like it actually transcends language barriers - you see how it can affect people, and it's quite a tall order to follow up on.

  

  Gwen Stefani No Doubt
  • Language
  • Write
  • Great Song

• Brian Turner writes as only a soldier can, of terror and compassion, hurt and horror, sympathy and desire. He takes us into the truth and trauma of the Iraq war in language that is precise, delicate and beautiful, even as it tells of a suicide bomber, a skull shattered by a bullet, a blade in a bloodgroove.

  

  Andrew Himes
  • Language
  • Delicate
  • Writes

• English is a forgiving language. It's not like Classical Arabic and it's not like French. You can speak broken English and be expressive and no one will hold it against you.

  

  Elliott Colla
  • English
  • Speak
  • Forgiving

• I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out.

  

  Terry Brooks
  • Language
  • Imagery

• When a language creates - as it does - a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.

  

  Christopher Ricks
  • Community
  • Present
  • Creates

• The world is MADE up of language. We can SAY that the world is composed of little demons doing calisthenics, each one the size of a pissant's eyebrow.... Or we can SAY the world is made of tiny wave mechanical packets of matter hurling through space at near the speed of light.... But notice that what we get each time are WORDS.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • World
  • Speed
  • Wave

• To understand the Universe, you must understand the language in which it's written, the language of Mathematics.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Universe
  • Language
  • Understand

• Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?

  

  Erica Jong
  • Taxes
  • Phrases
  • Menace

• The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • American
  • Language
  • Provincialism

• Hear this if you can: If you want to reach him You have to go beyond yourself And when you finally arrive at the land of absence Be silent Don’t say a thing Ecstasy, not words, is the language spoken there

  

  Rumi
  • Silent
  • Him
  • Reach

• You, my Brown Guard, will regard it as a matter of course that this German people should go only by the way which Providence ordained for it when it gave to Germans the common language. So we go forward with the profoundest faith in God into the future. Would that which we have achieved have been possible if Providence had not helped us?

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • God
  • Providence
  • German People

• The language of poetry is the exact opposite of the language of mass media.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Language
  • Poetry Is
  • Mass Media

• I always feel like I don't know how to express myself. I need to be with people that understand my language.

  

  Agathe Snow
  • Language
  • Understand
  • Express

• Dreams are the language your heart speaks to help guide you to your destiny.

  

  Katrina Mayer
  • Heart
  • Dreams
  • Destiny

• Language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing but a compromise - that which is common to you, me, and everybody.

  

  T. E. Hulme
  • Nature
  • Common
  • Compromise

• Every individual or national degeneration is immediately revealed by a directly proportional degradation in language.

  

  Joseph de Maistre
  • Language
  • National
  • Degeneration

• When you become a driver, they don't tell you that you have to switch languages. The drivers have their own language and they don't tell you that as girls. How am I supposed to know that blinking light means something? There are all these little languages that you have to know, but you don't know.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Girl
  • Mean
  • Drivers

• 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
  • Influence
  • Musician
  • Jazz

• Language learning deserves special mention. It is, bar none, the best thing you can do to hone clear thinking.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Thinking
  • Learning
  • Language

• To get someone to pose, you have to be very good friends and above all speak the language.

  

  Auguste Renoir
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Good Friends

• I'd like to pursue music back home because I still tend to express myself better through my mother language - English - and it's something I've been dreaming about and would like to achieve.

  

  Stephanie Young Hwang
  • Music
  • Language
  • Express

• I see tendencies, I see body language.

  

  Michael Chang
  • Language
  • Body
  • Tendencies

• Theology recognizes the contingency of human existence only to derive it from a necessary being, that is, to remove it. Theology makes use of philosophical wonder only for the purpose of motivating an affirmation which ends it. Philosophy, on the other hand, arouses us to what is problematic in our own existence and in that of the world, to such a point that we shall never be cured of searching for a solution.

  

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty
  • Language
  • Speak
  • Transcends

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