Language Quotes - Page 92

Faire language grates not the tongue.

That is not good language which all understand not.

There were no ill language, if it were not ill taken.

Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.

Beauty is part of the finished language by which goodness speaks.

To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.

Language always gives you away.

My grandfather, mother and father were gifted verbally, and my mother passed that along to me. She always made sure I was conscious of language and words.

Dig -- the mostly uncouth -- language of grace.

For me, music was always a second language. I didn't have a musical background, and I started studying very late, at fourteen.

Language is basic to all of our existences in this world. We depend on it.

The human need for language is not simply for the transmission of meaning, it is at the same time listening to and affirming a person's existence.

The enterprise of describing something in language that has never been described before is a very difficult thing to do. When you decide to do away with old cliches or old phraseologies, and to come up with a new way of saying something, it's extremely difficult.

[Heraclitus' language] dispenses with lightness and artificial decoration, foremost out of disgust for humanity and out of [his own] defiant feeling.

We cannot even reproduce our thoughts entirely in words.

The spiritual activity of millennia is deposited in language.

The philosopher caught in the nets of language.

I've always been so intrigued by French language and how it completely changes you, because of cultural context, because of humor.

The language that nature speaks is the same language that we invented for mathematics. That's just an amazing piece of luck, which we don't understand.

Language is the medium of our thoughts.

The world speaks of holy things in the only language it knows, which is worldly language.

Throughout, the work of Tyndale formed the foundation, and more than anyone else he established the rhythms and furnished much of the language which is familiar to us in the Authorised Version.

Job Control Language is the worst programming language ever designed anywhere by anybody for any purpose.

The thinking is that we started evolving language not by speaking but by gesturing.

When you're selling a product or service, you don't have - it doesn't have to be absolutely perfect, although I've provided language that is. When you're a politician, one wrong word changes the entire - changes the meaning of something.