Language Quotes - Page 28

Every form of power comes down to language. In law, there's all kinds of words you don't know if you're not a lawyer and that gives them power. In business, it's the same thing.

Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we cannot avoid it.... If our basic tool, the language in which we design and code our programs, is also complicated, the language itself becomes part of the problem rather than part of its solution.

Communication across the revolutionary divide is inevitably partial.

Language betrays, in order to mean.

The culture cannot evolve faster than the language. The language is the flashlight that shows the path.

There is no right language or wrong language any more than there are right or wrong clothes.

If you do not know his language, you will never understand a foreigner's silence.

The world is God's language to us.

Bilingualism is for me the fundamental problem of linguistics.

Languages differ essentially in what they must convey and not in what they may convey.

I just don't like big guys who speak cryptically and act like they understand the language better than me.

To be an architect is to possess an individual voice speaking a generally understood language of form.

Metaphor is the only possible language available to religion because it alone is honest about Mystery.

To be honest, I couldn't hold a conversation with anybody in any language other than English - and that's a struggle sometimes!

Words, do not have twins in every language. Sometimes they only have distant cousins, and sometimes they pretend that they are not even related.

The liberation of language is rooted in the liberation of ourselves.

Computer languages of the future will be more concerned with goals and less with procedures specified by the programmer.

How charmed I am when I overhear a German word which I understand!

Image is an international language.

Laughter is the language of the heart

I tried to learn the languages - Italian, Spanish, and German - not to successfully. Working on a European set isn't a hell of a lot different from working on an American set.

The thought of today cannot be expressed in the language of yesterday.

I loved everything about Spain - the people, the language, and the food!

I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.

My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.