Language Quotes - Page 72

To understand animal thinking you've got to get away from a language.

I figure if kids see a movie about 12-year-olds chopping each other up, they can probably see a movie where everyone keeps their clothes on and doesn't use foul language.

I love learning languages, and actually computer code is another language as well.

I do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not allow me to take.

For centuries, everything was taught through music. History was taught through music; language and mathematics were taught through music.

Language is the chief means and index of a nation's progress.

In contrast to the written account-which, depending on its complexity of thought, reference, and vocabulary, is pitched at a larger or smaller readership-a photograph has only one language and is destined potentially for all.

Language is filled with words for deprivation images so familiar it is hard to crack language open into that other country the country of being.

Language is one of the thin walls humanity has built up over centuries against its own bestial and destructive impulses.

Language mavens commonly confuse their own peeves with a worsening of the language.

Language is a window into human nature, but it is also a fistula, an open wound through which we're exposed to an infectious world.

One can choose to obsess over prescriptive rules, but they have no more to do with human language than the criteria for judging cats at a cat show have to do with mammalian biology.

Negotiating with memories isn't easy: how to choose between those panting to be told, those still ripening, those already shriveling, and those destined to be mangled by language and come out pulverized?

The importance of an artist is bringing new signs into a language.

95% on content and the computer language remains the same.

Romance is a universally unspoken language understood by all living organism on this planet except heterosexual men.

I'm a champion for western civilization and, yes, our English language is a big part of it. It's a carrier of freedom. Wherever the English language has gone globally, freedom went with it. Science technology has always lifted up the standard of living on average of everybody on the planet. I want more of that, not less. There are civilizations that produce very little, if any. This western civilization is a superior civilization, and we want to share it with everybody.

All language is an aspiration to music.

Mandarin is gonna be the language in 15 to 20 years.

The classical scholars have kept alive the tradition of the superiority of the ancient languages -- a kaleidoscopic mass of suffixes and prefixes, supposed to represent an infinite shading of meaning. It is a character they share with the Ojibway and the Zulu.

I'd like to learn French well enough to write in that language.

It's a writer's job to carve with language, to hew close to the bone.

The worst of this sorry bunch of semi-educated losers are those who seem to glory in being irritated by nouns becoming verbs. How dense and deaf to language development do you have to be? If you don’t like nouns becoming verbs, then for heaven’s sake avoid Shakespeare who made a doing-word out of a thing-word every chance he got. He TABLED the motion and CHAIRED the meeting in which nouns were made verbs

I am aware of the technical distinction between ‘less’ and ‘fewer’, and between ‘uninterested’ and ‘disinterested’ and ‘infer’ and ‘imply’, but none of these are of importance to me. ‘None of these are of importance,’ I wrote there, you’ll notice – the old pedantic me would have insisted on “none of them is of importance”. Well I’m glad to say I’ve outgrown that silly approach to language

I've said it a million times: Romance languages lead to premarital sex.