Language Quotes - Page 39

Lexicographers are language reporters.

When speech is divorced from speaker and word from meaning, what is left is just ritual, language as ritual.

National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.

English, once accepted as an international language, is no more secure than French has proved to be as the one and only accepted language of diplomacy or as Latin has proved to be as the international language of science.

Speaking of Sir Winston Churchill: He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.

The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells.

They had nothing in common but the English language.

I do not share the wish to see my language dead and decently buried

An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.

Nothing which is harmonized by the bond of the Muse can be changed from its own to another language without destroying its sweetness

When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language.

Stay away from restaurants that have menus in five languages. Thats always a tourist trap. You want to eat where the locals eat.

It's a beautiful lucid dream that has language that I can fiddle with.

Words were written out for me phonetically. I learned to quack in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese and German.

You must feel what you're singing, not just have a good presentation of the language.

Language is a very complicated thing, and that's one of the reasons why I like making photographs.

Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.

The English language is more complex than calculus because numbers don't have nuances.

How many languages do we really speak?

Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language.

Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks.

When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility.

It is not the responsibility of the language to force good looking code, but the language should make good looking code possible.

I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.

Two nations divided by a common language.