Language Quotes - Page 38

Take Lisp, you know its the most beautiful language in the world -- at least up until Haskell came along.

Language comes into being, like consciousness, from the basic need, from the scantiest intercourse with other human.

Translations are a partial and precious documentation of the changes the text suffers.

Story is the language of the heart.

My dad is a minister, and my mum is a worker with the less fortunate and the disabled. They're Nigerian natives. Their first language is Yoruba, and their second language is English.

Sometimes the government has to answer questions with ambiguous language.

When a man is born...there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.

Mathematics is a language

The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions.

Language is a machine for making falsehoods.

Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.

Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.

Music is the language spoken by angels.

He never labored so hard to learn a language as he did to hold his tongue, and it affected him for life. The habit of reticence — of talking without meaning — is never effaced.

It is said that life and death are under the power of language.

If you don’t like a language, you can go write your own.

So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to make films without words.

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

We think in language. We think in words. Language is the landscape of thought.

... one of the things the tyrant most cunningly engineers is the gross over-simplification of language, because propaganda requires that the minds of the collective respond primitively to slogans of incitement.

English is the perfect language for preachers because it allows you to talk until you think of what to say.

Hath any wounded thee with injuries? Meet them with patience. Hasty words rankle the wound; soft language dresses it.

Beauty can only be best described at its origin through a befuddling silence, the kind that leaves one almost on the verge of a pleasurable death, just because one chooses beauty over life. There is nothing in this world to hold something so pure, so divine except a loving heart. And it is the only manner through which love recognises love; the language of love has no alphabet, no words.

It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.

It is only possible to speak in the language and in the spirit of one's time.