Language Quotes - Page 46

The most important words in the English language are not 'I love you' but 'it's benign.'

Geometry in every proposition speaks a language which experience never dares to utter; and indeed of which she but halfway comprehends the meaning.

They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.

Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.

Aristocracy and exclusiveness tend to final overthrow, in language as in politics.

A tale should be judicious, clear, succinct; The language plain, and incidents well link'd; Tell not as new what ev'ry body knows; and, new or old, still hasten to a close.

Language is properly the servant of thought, but not unfrequently becomes its master. The conceptions of a feeble writer are greatly modified by his style; a man of vigorous powers makes his style bend to his conceptions.

The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French.

Even for the physicist the description in plain language will be a criterion of the degree of understanding that has been reached.

To defend what we love we need a particularizing language, for we love what we particularly know.

Every good writer has much idiom; it is the life and spirit of language.

God has stated in clear and concise language how He created the universe and we ought not to doubt His Word.

Computers are everywhere and you can't even begin to function with a computer unless you have comprehension and an understanding of the English language.

Translations increase the faults of a work and spoil its beauties.

So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.

Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet.

The more languages you know, the less likely you are to become a terrorist.

If we had no language we'd have nothing.

We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.

Do Not Disturb signs should be written in the language of the hotel maids.

The Greeks distinguished between good and bad behavior, language that enhanced or diminished persons. Being intoxicated with scientism, we fail to recognize that the seemingly technical terms used to identify psychiatric illnesses and interventions are simply dyphemisms and euphemisms.

The issues of poetry, and music, and dialogue with one another is the essential thrust of any song. The breakdown becomes the epoch, the language, the cultural tapestry from which it's echoing, if you will. I often say it's the eyes of the poet's and the ears of the composer's. This narration is what fascinates me endlessly.

Language is called the garment of thought: however, it should rather be, language is the flesh-garment, the body, of thought.

Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.

In my world, history comes down to language and art.