Language Quotes
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The book is famous for two things: It's an early reader for kids with its simple language. And the second thing is how the fantastic illustrations show dogs doing human things.
Eric Johnson
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That's why it's important to be multilingual, because it teaches you so much about your own language.
Sandra Cisneros
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With .NET once an API is published it's available to all programming languages at the same time.
Miguel de Icaza
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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
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Sport is a universal language, building more bridges between people than anything else I can think of.
Sebastian Coe
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Seemingly unrelated things that are in fact really related, that's the stuff I like to talk about. Like dancing, language learning, swimming, three-pointers.
Tim Ferriss
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What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
Anne Carson
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It's not that Perl programmers are idiots, it's that the language rewards idiotic behavior in a way that no other language or tool has ever done.
Erik Naggum
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How is it possible to suspend topaz in one cup of the balance and weigh it against amethyst in the other; or who in a single language can compare the tranquillizing grace of a maiden with the invigorating pleasure of witnessing a well-contested rat-fight?
Ernest Bramah
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English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen.
Ernest Istook
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In my judgment the people of no nation can lose their liberty so long as a Bill of Rights like ours survives and its basic purposes are conscientiously interpreted, enforced and respected so as to afford continuous protection against old, as well as new, devices and practices which might thwart those purposes. I fear to see the consequences of the Court's practice of substituting its own concepts of decency and fundamental justice for the language of the Bill of Rights as its point of departure in interpreting and enforcing that Bill of Rights.
Hugo Black
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Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption.
Willard Van Orman Quine
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I find labels "liberal" and "conservative" of little meaning. Our language has become perverted along with the thoughts of many of us.
Studs Terkel
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When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved, then there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak.
Albert Camus
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In the world I am Always a stranger I do not understand its language It does not understand my silence
Bei Dao
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The language of power was exercised in more than just words. It was presence and thought; it was gesture and timing.
Elizabeth Chadwick
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All of us in Quebec - and I mean all of us - have allowed language to become a preoccupation that works to the disadvantage of all of us - and I mean all of us.
Dick Pound
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Within every word there is the unhealable wound of language.
Edmond Jabes
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Not a self-contained language but merely the 'script' of the 'moving geometrical spectacle' that constitutes reality.
Gaspard Monge
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When you act, you want to emote and think in that language. I don't enjoy the process of doing a film in a language I am not good with.
Suriya
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Feelings or emotions are the universal language and are to be honored. They are the authentic expression of who you are at your deepest place.
Judith Wright
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The living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free!
Helen Keller
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Remember that although they may speak a different language, they are still the same kind of people as the folks you know at home, have the same mental processes, are just as kindly and just as friendly. Remember that, quit talking and start over again - in pantomime.
Wally Byam
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I'm trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through.
Sean Lennon