Language Quotes - Page 55

Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.

Knowledge and Experience do not necessarily speak the same language.

If I do not speak in a language that can be understood there is little chance for a dialogue.

There is no 'cat language.' Painful as it is for us to admit, they don't need one!

The word right should be excluded from political language, as the word cause from the language of philosophy.

If your language is confused, your intellect, if not your whole character, will almost certainly correspond.

Russian is a very deceptive language, because it looks easy at first: it's like setting out for a gentle stroll and realizing that you've committed yourself to scaling Himalayan peaks.

With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.

What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into concepts.

What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things.

My French definitely improves the more I drink, as I worry less and less about absolutely perfect grammar. I do speak and understand the language, just not particularly well.

What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.

A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.

I was very adept at acquiring languages.

I certainly like that the Spanish language is spoken around me.

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

America is our continent. You feel in the daily language that Americans use the word "America" to erase the rest of the continent from the map. And, of course, the language is clearly a reflection of the geopolitical reality: the domination of the United States over the rest of the continent.

Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and it's reflected in his writings.

In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.

A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.

Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.

Experience is always larger than language.

Tangible language, which often tells more falsehoods than truths.

Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility.

I’m saying language is a passport. A dubious, dangerous passport too.