Language Quotes - Page 94

Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?

language can't be appropriated by one person, one poet. The words belong to all of us.

Of course, C proved indispensible to the developers of all its alternatives. Dig down through enough implementation layers under any of the other languages surveyed here and you will find a core implemented in pure, portable C

The Wesnoth devs are good but not exceptionally so, and we're weighed down by a crappy implementation language (C++). Nevertheless our productivity, in terms of goals achieved per hour of work, is quite high.

Abstraction is itself an abstract word and has no single meaning ... Every word in our language is abstract, because it represents something else.

[Donald Trump] said that he has intelligence briefings. He's heard stuff that body language. It's very wild to me.

One doesn't live in a country, one lives in a language.

To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world.

English is a forgiving language. It's not like Classical Arabic and it's not like French. You can speak broken English and be expressive and no one will hold it against you.

There is no language that love does not speak.

I find vocabulary to be a great drawback.

Anthony Doerr again takes language beyond mortal limits.

Expressing emotion is not so easy. He has to remind himself that English is not her first language. Expressing emotion can be difficult even when the words are familiar.

I don't speak anything fluently, but I love picking up languages and I do this Duolingo app. I started when I moved to Sweden, when I was about 19, 20. I really loved the language; it was super melodic and really sexy.

You cannot write in more than one language. Words don't come out as well.

The most important word in the English language is hope.

Will America be the death of English? I'm glad I asked me that. My well-thought-out mature judgment is that it will.

Where Nature's end of language is declin'd, And men talk only to conceal the mind.

Language is the leading principle which unites or separates the tribes of mankind.

You have to learn the language of Hamlet.

The one overall structure in my plays is language

Under the tropic is our language spoke, And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our yoke.

Sallust is indisputably one of the best historians among the Romans, both for the purity of his language and the elegance of his style.

Grammar is the analysis of language.

Two languages in one brain? No one can live at that speed!