Language Quotes - Page 50

Love one another, push the perimeter of this glorious language. Lastly, please show proper courtesy; open not your neighbor's mail.

If you will scoff at language study how, save in terms of language, will you scoff?

I am not anti-English, I am not anti-British, I am not anti-any Government, but I am anti-untruth, anti-humbug and anti-injustice.

poets are born knowing the language of angels

Because education is such a broad area, I chose to focus on language learning.

Here the term 'language-game' is meant to bring into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity, of a form of life.

For a large class of cases - though not for all - in which we employ the word meaning it can be explained thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language.

To understand a sentence means to understand a language. To understand a language means to be master of a technique.

Good translations are one of the vital necessities of our time.

Math is the language of the universe.

What is it that really makes us, us? It's our collective intelligence. It's our ability to write things down, our language and our consciousness.

One advantage of photography is that it's visual and can transcend language.

Everything she did and love, everything she was, required language.

The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.

The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.

Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.

Mathematics is the language of size.

All biblical exegetes and theologians have a theory of language, whether they acknowledge it or not.

Poetry is a deliberate attempt to make language suggestive and imprecise.

The precision provided (or enforced) by programming languages and their execution can identify lacunas, ambiguities, and other areas of potential confusion in conventional [mathematical] notation.

Prayer no longer seems like an activity to me; it has become the continuing language of the relationship I believe God designed to fulfill a human life.

I can read and speak Hindi quite well now and that's quite an achievement considering I didn't know the language at all when I came down here.

And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation.

A language is the appearances of connections therefore language as in writing doesn't express anything: it creates.

Dude, the bush is ready. Why you still beating around it?” “I’ve lived a long time, kid, and I’ve never heard anyone mutilate the English language quite like you.