Language Quotes - Page 41

All language is a longing for home.

Speak with the language of love.

In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a sort of accompaniment to the signified.

It is the distance between us that creates language.

The establishment of formal standards for proofs about programs... and the proposal that the semantics of a programming language may be defined independently of all processors for that language, by establishing standards of rigor for proofs about programs in the language, appears to be novel.

Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising

In the particular presence of memorable language we can find a reminder of our ability to know and retain knowledge itself: the brightness wherein all things come to see.

Art after all is but an extension of language to the expression of sensations too subtle for words.

Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy.

I have a high regard for Native languages and the pivotal role they have played in our nation's history

My favorite programming languages are Lisp and C. However, since around 1992 I have worked mainly on free software activism, which means I am too busy to do much programming. Around 2008 I stopped doing programming projects.

Language is a social event.

What I can't create I don't understand

The real problem in speech is not precise language. The problem is clear language.

A woman who utters such disgusting and depressing noise has no right to be anywhere, no right to live. Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech, that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton and The Bible. Don't sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon.

I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity.

Writers let themselves be enticed by the language.

Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms.

Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.

Pop music has greater power to change people and to affect people because it's a universal language. You don't have to understand music to understand the power of a pop song.

I was worried people would laugh at me when I started to talk the language, but they were just pleasantly surprised that I could. The sense of humour here is great - once I could have a giggle, I settled down.

By a generative grammar I mean simply a system of rules that in some explicit and well-defined way assigns structural descriptions to sentences. Obviously, every speaker of a language has mastered and internalized a generative grammar that expresses his knowledge of his language. This is not to say that he is aware of the rules of the grammar or even that he can become aware of them, or that his statements about his intuitive knowledge of the language are necessarily accurate.

Human language is nothing like the signalling systems of other animals.

paraphrasing.."Science is the language of the intellect of society. Art is language of the entire human personality.

I cried in English, I cried in french, I cried in all the languages, because tears are the same all around the world.