Language Quotes - Page 21

I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.

Speech is the best show a man puts on.

A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.

Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.

Be careful of words, / ... they can be both daisies and bruises.

The language of priorities is the religion of socialism.

Your body language shapes who you are

Style is just an impression. Style itself is hollow. Style, its ok style as long as it is part of a language. Style for style itself is just something very hollow.

In the original language, 'Fear the Lord' doesn't mean be afraid. It means sustaining a joyful, astonished awe, and wonder before Him.

Touch is the first language we speak.

Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.

We who write in English are fortunate to have the richest and most versatile language in the world. Respect it.

God speaks in the language you know best - not through your ears, but through your circumstances.

The dictionary is, however, only a rough draft.

Anybody can have ideas-the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.

One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'

Invent a new language anyone can understand.

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.

Congratulations, Congress! 77% disapproval rating! You may be about to become the English language's most offensive C-word.

Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.

The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it.

Typography is what language looks like.

Most programming languages contain good parts and bad parts. I discovered that I could be better programmer by using only the good parts and avoiding the bad parts.

Silence is the only language god speaks.

It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is.