Language Quotes - Page 20

Artists should never look at pictures, but should stutter in a language of their own.

Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own.

Language makes infinite use of finite media.

I don't know what the language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called Fortran.

The name of a person you love is more than language.

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.

The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends.

Mathematics is not just a language. Mathematics is a language plus reasoning.

The world's five thousand extant languages are products of our shared ability, but the five thousand cultures they create are separate from each other.

Programming languages, like pizzas, come in only too sizes; too big and too small.

Without a constant misuse of language there cannot be any discovery, any progress

A national language is a band of national union.

It was a revelation for me, in a practical sense, that you could write in an African language and still reach an audience beyond that language through the art of translation.

To stop challenging someone from using anti-gay language simply because they persist in using anti-gay language strikes me as a defeatist approach.

Language does our thinking for us.

The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second.

No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.

Language is so different from life. How am I supposed to fit the one into the other? How can I bring them together?

Regarding language as an apparatus of symbols for the conveyance of thought, we may say that, as in a mechanical apparatus, the more simple and the better arranged its parts, the greater will be the effect produced.

The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.

Of all social institutions language is least amenable to initiative. It blends with the life of society, and the latter, inert by nature, is a prime conservative force.

My first language is Gaelic.

Smiles are the language of love.

I can ask for cigarettes in every language

In language clarity is everything.