Language Quotes - Page 58

We sleep in language if language does not come to wake us up with its strangeness.

The language of politics is poetry, not prose. Jackson is poetry. Cuomo is poetry. Dukakis is a word processor.

No' is the second shortest word in the English language, but one of the hardest to say.

The way Shakespeare wrote Fallstaff is with a heightened language and everything.

When fundamentalism comes to kill, it can kill with the language - the Apostle James says this, not me - and even with a knife, no?

Photography is a foreign language everyone thinks he speaks.

On the day of the show, I sit down with someone that speaks very good English and someone who speaks the local language very well and work out what I'm going to say.

Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.

If I can learn to understand this language without words, I can learn to understand the world.

My feeling is, music is a more eloquent international language than Coca-Cola or McDonalds.

I know ours is a world made by men for men, their dictatorship is so ancient it even extends to language.

All Christian language about the future is a set of signposts pointing into a mist.

Arabs respect only the language of force.

Understanding that these statements do not represent reality, we should not be threatened by the language that he has used.

With .NET once an API is published it's available to all programming languages at the same time.

Translation from one language to another is like viewing a piece of tapestry on the wrong side where though the figures are distinguishable yet there are so many ends and threads that the beauty and exactness of the work is obscured.

over and over again I am struck by the wordiness of modern poetry, as if language had replaced experience and must be more and more extreme, intricate and in a way divorced from life itself. It seems as if what we all need is a great purification - but how will that come about?

Consensus is usually made possible by vague language and shallow commitments.

Our language, once homely and colloquial, seeks to aggrandize our meanest activities with polysyllabic terms or it retreats from frankness into a stammering verbosity.

people who understand grammar always have a keen sense of the ridiculous.

Those who use language and have nothing but language to express themselves live in a cage that cannot feel comfortable.

Language is a form of organized stutter.

A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years.

I think in general I've never dared compose in Spanish. First of all, it is such an intricate language.

Ram Mohan Roy would have been a greater reformer and Lokmanya Tilak a greater scholar if they had not to start with the handicap of having to think in English and transmit their thoughts chiefly in English.