Language Quotes - Page 66

The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!

What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule.

This belief in the necessity of English training has enslaved us. It has unfitted us for true national service.

My love of the British is equal to that of my own people.

Man can only describe God in his own poor language.

If our language is watered down, then mankind becomes less human, and less free.

Speech happens to not be his language.

Each language has its own temperament; some languages make a poem more dramatic or sad, and others make it more playful.

One must not assume that an understanding of science is present in those who borrow the language

Speak the language of the company you are in; speak it purely, and unlarded with any other.

Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain.

The act of language or the act of denying language carries its own heaviness.

The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.

He who knows other languages feels even closer to his own language.

I have drawn from the well of language many a thought which I do not have and which I could not put into words.

Now I’m really glad that I speak French, because, let’s face it, girls dig it when a guy speaks French. They call it the language of love, and that ain’t no coincidence. Plus, I love my French fans! Très jolie!

Words are containers for power

When you choose a language, you're choosing more than a set of technical trade-offs-you're choosing a community.

The highest thoughts are those which are least dependent on language, and the dignity of any composition and praise to which it is entitled are in exact proportion to its dependency of language or expression.

As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore. Or if I would delight my private hours With music or with poem, where so soon As in our native language can I find That solace?

To possess another language, Charlemagne tells us, is to possess another soul. German is such a language. Once you have it in your head, you can go there anytime, you can close the door, you have a refuge.

Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation knows about its own identity.

Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal

Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own.

If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own.