Language Quotes

• Photography, like any other art, is a form of communication. The artist is not blowing bubbles for his own gratification, but is speaking a language, is telling somebody something.

  

  William Mortensen
  • Communication
  • Photography
  • Bubbles

• Thoughts there are, not to be translated into any language, and spirits alone can read them.

  

  Arthur Helps
  • Language
  • Thoughts
  • Spirits

• Since music is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man.

  

  Claude Levi-Strauss
  • Music
  • Science
  • Creator

• You must feel what you're singing, not just have a good presentation of the language.

  

  Cecilia Bartoli
  • Singing
  • Language

• With .NET once an API is published it's available to all programming languages at the same time.

  

  Miguel de Icaza
  • Language
  • Available
  • Programming

• If names are not correct, then language is not in accord with the truth of things. If language is not in accord with the truth of things, then affairs cannot be carried out successfully.

  

  Confucius
  • Truth
  • Correct
  • Affairs

• The language of chemistry simply does not mesh with that of biology. Chemistry is about substances and how they react, whereas biology appeals to concepts such as information and organisation. Informational narratives permeate biology.

  

  Paul Davies
  • Information
  • Chemistry
  • Biology

• We live in a culture that has institutionalized the oppression of animals on at least two levels: in formal structures such as slaughterhouses, meat markets, zoos, laboratories, and circuses, and through our language. That we refer to meat eating rather than to corpse eating is a central example of how our language transmits the dominant culture's approval of this activity.

  

  Carol J. Adams
  • Culture
  • Animal
  • Eating

• Nothing in a language is less translatable than its modes of understatement.

  

  George Steiner
  • Language
  • Translate
  • Understatement

• The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

  

  George Eliot
  • Words
  • Language
  • Made

• Notes and chords have become my second language and, more often than not, that vocabulary expresses what I feel when language fails me.

  

  Slash Guns N' Roses
  • Language
  • Notes
  • Vocabulary

• What do I think happens when we die? I think we enter into another stage of existence or another state of consciousness that is so extraordinarily different from the reality we have here in the physical world that the language we have is not yet adequate to describe this other state of existence or consciousness. Based on what I have heard from thousands of people, we enter into a realm of joy, light, peace, and love in which we discover that the process of knowledge does not stop when we die. Instead, the process of learning and development goes on for eternity.

  

  Raymond Moody
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Reality

• I once saw a small child go to an electric light switch as say, Mamma, can I open the light? She was using the age-old language of exploration, the language of art.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Art
  • Light
  • Child

• He turned, as he spoke, a peculiar look in her direction, a look of hatred unless he has a most perverse set of facial muscles that will not, like those of other people, interpret the language of his soul.

  

  Emily Bronte
  • Soul
  • Direction
  • Muscles

• Fun has to rule in a lot of scenarios. Occasionally, when you are really getting going, you need to stretch beyond language. It has to go out the window.

  

  Brian Chippendale
  • Language
  • Rule
  • Scenarios

• Language is decanted and shared. If only one person is left alive speaking a language - the case with some American Indian languages - the language is dead. Language takes two and their multiples.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • American
  • Persons
  • Alive

• English language is the most universal language in history, way more than the Latin of Julius Caesar. Its the most punderful language because its vocabulary has a certain critical mass that makes a lingo good for punning.

  

  Richard Lederer
  • Certain
  • Universal
  • Punning

• What you wear represents you to the world, especially now, when communication between people is so fast. Fashion is a universal language that everyone understands.

  

  Miuccia Prada
  • People
  • Language
  • Communication

• I recognized my own creative voice filtered through those six strings, but it was also something else entirely. Notes and chords have become my second language and, more often than not, that vocabulary expresses what I feel when language fails me.

  

  Slash Guns N' Roses
  • Language
  • Recognized
  • Fails

• My view is that knowing languages is part of the process of becoming a cultured person.

  

  Kató Lomb
  • Persons
  • Process
  • Becoming

• There was a language specific to all things. The ability to learn another language in one arena, whether it was music, medicine, or finance, could be used to accelerate learning and other arenas, too.

  

  Chris Gardner
  • Ability
  • Medicine
  • Finance

• The alternative to intellectual property is straightforward: intellectual products should not be owned, as in the case of everyday language. That means not owned by individuals, corporations, governments, or the community as common property. It means that ideas are available to be used by anyone who wants to.

  

  Brian Martin
  • Community
  • Governments
  • Corporation

• C++ is the only current language making COBOL look good.

  

  Bertrand Meyer
  • Good
  • Language

• And C++ programming languages, we own those, have licensed them out multiple times, obviously. We have a lot of royalties coming to us from C++.

  

  Darl McBride
  • Language
  • Programming
  • Royalty

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