Language Quotes - Page 18

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.

It was hard for me to do the show (All-American Girl) because a lot of people didn't even understand the concept of Asian-American. I was on a morning show and the host said, "Awright, Margaret, we're changing over to an ABC affiliate! So why don't you tell our viewers in your native language that we're making that transition?" So I looked at the camera and said, "Um, they're changing over to an ABC affiliate."

Learn the language that they understand, and when they come upon our doorstep to talk we can talk, and they will get the point. There will be a dialog, there will be some communication, and I am quite certain that then there will be some understanding.

I've built my homeland, I've even founded my state - in my language.

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

Colors speak all languages.

Ingrid Bergman speaks five languages and can’t act in any of them.

Being a writer requires an intoxication with language.

What is a nation without a mother tongue?

The old languages - at least the ones I know - don't have gender. They don't have gendered pronouns. There's no "he" and "she." A human being is a human being.

Mastery of language affords remarkable power.

We probably, as primitive people, made music before we actually had a language, and that's where language comes from.

I'm not trying to stump anybody... it's the beauty of the language that I'm interested in.

Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.

We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language.

A change in language can transform our appreciation of the cosmos.

For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.

Smaller incidents in my life made me realize that language, even more than color, defines who you are to people.

Musicians can travel all over the world and have an audience, because there's no language barrier.

The English language is an arsenal of weapons. If you are going to brandish them without checking to see whether or not they are loaded, you must expect to have them explode in your face from time to time.

We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.

All language is political.

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.