Language Quotes - Page 32

The Catholic faith never changes. But the language and mode of manifesting this one faith can change according to peoples, times and places.

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.

As thy days, so shall thy strength be which, in modern language, may be translated as thy thoughts so shall thy life be.

A standard international language should not only be simple, regular, and logical, but also rich and creative.

The language of love may be universal, but it's not one of the options on an ATM machine.

Requirements in mathematical language are no use unless they are easier to read than the code.

Making the simple complicated is commonplace.

More good code has been written in languages denounced as "bad'' than in languages proclaimed "wonderful'' - much more.

Verbing weirds language.

What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same.

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.

Photography is my only language.

I would say that jazz is my own language.

It is the theory that decides what can be observed.

The only reality we can ever truly know is that of our perceptions, our own consciousness, while that consciousness, and thus our entire reality, is made of nothing but signs and symbols. Nothing but language. Even God requires language before conceiving the Universe. See Genesis: “In the beginning was the Word.

We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it. This is the reason why it is so difficult for any but natives to speak a language correctly or idiomatically.

More scientific language and less diplomatic rhetoric may make this world even better.

It is the language of nature to which one has to listen.

I am under the spell of language, which has ruled me since I was 10.

It must be noted that it is often the colleague or direct disciple of a new thinker who gets stuck in literal interpretations of the work, tending to freeze the new ideas and language into an inflexible, static condition.

...language is not the frosting, it's the cake.

Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.

Language is by its very nature a communal thing.

Poetry is language surprised in the act of changing into meaning.

The absolutist takes himself to read nature in her very own language, but the relativist insists that nature does not speak, and we hear only what we have elected to hear.