Language Quotes - Page 5

Being that can be understood is language.

Silence is God's language, and it's a very difficult language to learn.

It's as if we're higher apes who had a language faculty inserted.

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.

In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.

The only international language in the world is a child's cry.

I speak the truth but I guess that's a foreign language to ya'll!

Esperanto was a very useful language, because wherever you went, you found someone to speak with.

In places in the world where we don't speak the same language, or even understand that we pray to the same God, we dance to the same beat, that is the ONE.

In learning the art of storytelling by animation, I have discovered that language has an anatomy.

I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.

We can appreciate each other's languages. And the question of being uncomfortable about our languages would go away.

C++ is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot of substandard programmers use it, to the point where it's much much easier to generate total and utter crap with it.

At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language.

Economics is like the Dutch language - I'm told it makes sense, but I have my doubts.

It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.

I could teach you how to speak my language, Rosetta Stone.

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

This is a confusing and uncertain period, when a thousand wise words can go completely unnoticed, and one thoughtless word can provoke an utterly nonsensical furor.

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough.

Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.

Language disguises thought.

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.

The unconscious is structured like a language.