Language Quotes - Page 61

If you're a good numbers person, you're a bad language person.

The Holy Spirit speaks many languages; among them the languages of art in all its forms.

An instrument that sometimes expresses thought, sometimes obscures thought, but most often replaces thought.

The mystery lies in the use of language to express human life.

What the elements are to chemistry, what the sounds are to music, are words to language.

I dream of a language whose words, like fists, would fracture jaws.

The difference of language, dress, and manners . . . severs and alienates the nations of the globe.

With languages, you are at home anywhere

It may be observed, that very polished languages, and such as are praised for their superior clearness and perspicuity, are generally deficient in strength.

One of the most important and fascinating of all computer languages is Lisp (standing for "List Processing"), which was invented by John McCarthy around the time Algol was invented.

All of us in Quebec - and I mean all of us - have allowed language to become a preoccupation that works to the disadvantage of all of us - and I mean all of us.

Only in North America is it regarded as a major achievement to speak one language moderately well.

Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.

I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.

When you speak, ask questions. Don't lecture.

In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously.

I'm truly amazed at you, Garion," Polgara said. "I didn't think you had the faintest idea of how to speak a civilized language." "Thank you," he said, "I think.

And C++ programming languages, we own those, have licensed them out multiple times, obviously. We have a lot of royalties coming to us from C++.

An important United Nations environmental conference went past 6:00 in the evening when the interpreters' contracted working conditions said they could leave. They left, abandoning the delegates unable to talk to each other in their native languages. The French head of the committee, who had insisted on speaking only in French throughout the week suddenly demonstrated the ability to speak excellent English with English-speaking delegates.

If we had had the right technology back then, you would have seen Eva Braun on the Donahue show and Adolf Hitler on Meet the Press.

If language is not rectified, words do not correspond to meaning, and if words do not correspond to meaning, our deeds cannot be accomplished.

Writing cannot express all words, words cannot encompass all ideas.

Novels are more difficult simply because they are longer and require more juggling, but short stories are closer to perfection, if you can get the language right.

John Paul II spoke to the commoner and to the king, to the tyrant and to the democrat in that same language of freedom.

The violent subjugation of the Palestinians, Iraqis, and Afghans will only ensure that those who oppose us will increasingly speak to us in the language we speak to them—violence.