Language Quotes - Page 6

The traditional statement about language is that it is in itself living, and that writing is the dead part of language.

You can never understand one language until you understand at least two.

Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of languages.

Language itself changes slowly but the internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you notice them more quickly.

The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.

I want to go beyond the restrictions of language, religion and caste, and music is the only thing that allows me to do that.

Zoë threw up her hands in exasperation. "I hate this language. It changes too often!

The aim of language...is to communicate...to impart to others the results one has obtained...As I talk, I reveal the situation...I reveal it to myself and to others in order to change it.

Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication.

The world is richer than it is possible to express in any single language.

The book of nature is written in the language of mathematics.

Words are to be taken seriously. I try to take seriously acts of language. Words set things in motion. I've seen them doing it. Words set up atmospheres, electrical fields, charges.

Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person’s life.

It's amazing. The moment you show cash, everyone knows your language.

Whenever we can make 25 words do the work of 50, we halve the area in which looseness and disorganization can flourish.

All Gaul is divided into three parts, one of which the Belgae inhabit, the Aquitani another, those who in their own language are called Celts, in ours Gauls, the third.

I dislike pastiche; it attracts attention to the language only.

Time changes all things; there is no reason why language should escape this universal law

Without language, thought is a vague, uncharted nebula.

One’s visual language is not something that manifests overnight. It develops organically over a life-time. The shifts can be so subtle as to be virtually imperceptible and, at times, will come to fruition so rapidly, and with such force, that the profundity is all-consuming. That is life’s work.

Languages are true analytical methods.

Unintelligible language is a lantern without a light.

For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond.

Silence is never-ending speech. Vocal speech obstructs the other speech of silence. In silence one is in intimate contact with the surroundings. Language is only a medium for communicating one's thoughts to another. Silence is ever speaking.

Translators have to prove to themselves as to others that they are in control of what they do; that they do not just translate well because they have a "flair" for translation, but rather because, like other professionals, they have made a conscious effort to understand various aspects of their work.