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If you give someone Fortran, he has Fortran. If you give someone Lisp, he has any language he pleases
— Guy Steele
We replanted. The loss was substantial, but it was overshadowed completely by losing you.
— Vanessa Diffenbaugh
If you talk to a man in a second language , your talking to his brain ,if you talk to him in his mother language you're talking to his heart -
— Nelson Mandela
If you know how to handle the verbs, you know how to handle the language. Everything else is just vocabulary.
— Michel Thomas
You would not serve junk food at a banquet, and your book must be a banquet. Get your language from Swift , not from Shopsy's.
— Robertson Davies
I pointed at Ascanio. Not another word. Latin is a dead language, but that doesn't mean you get to molest its corpse. Finish sweeping, ianitor.
— Ilona Andrews
If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls.
— Guido Van Rossum
You do violence with your words if you force them - art is given - the words received, moment by moment from unseen hands - call it a Muse ...
— John Geddes
When something happens to you that is beyond words, life is happening to you. When the Ultimate is happening to you, you are beyond words.
— Swami Dhyan Giten
Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation knows about its own identity.
— John Ciardi
Love ... requires that you learn to read the lover in her own language, not translate her into yours.
— Steven Heighton
Swearing is industry language. For as long as we're alive it's not going to change. You've got to be boisterous to get results.
Gordon Ramsay — Gordon Ramsay
Gordon Ramsay — Gordon Ramsay
If you look at the historical record, you will find that language has always been in decline. Which means, really, and it never has.
— Robert Lane Greene
Poetry is the language of extremity. Poetry is a transfer of potency. You feel something potent and then you transfer it onto the page.
— Li-Young Lee
Writing a poem is always a process of subtracting: you start with all of language available to you, and you choose a smaller field.
— Matthea Harvey
If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Every language teaches you something, so learning a language is never wasted, especially if it's different in more than just syntactic trivia.
— Brian Kernighan
Your language indicates--and limits--what you think.
— Jonathan Price
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
It's not that words or human language stop having any meaning or relevance after you die, by the way.
— David Foster Wallace
A new language requires a new technique. If what you're saying doesn't require a new language, then what you're saying probably isn't new.
— Philip Glass
Joke exchanges are carried on in deadly earnest, like a verbal duel-mouth-to-mouth combat. Bang, bang: you're (linguistically) dead.
— David Crystal
Music speaks from spirit to spirit and in that sense you could call it a true spiritual language.
— John McLaughlin
Language trips you up. You can't ever say exactly what you mean, and every time you try try, you actually end up saying something about yourself.
— Chris Weitz
I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it.
— Charles Kuralt
For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance.
— Joseph Brodsky
Metaphors are inserted in our language even when they do not stand out (did you notice that?) to us.
— Niklas Torneke
In a costume, you need very exaggerated body language - as you say, sort of mime-type skills.
— Warwick Davis
I don't like reading music. It's like learning a language. You can't read music proficiently overnight. It takes time, it's boring work.
— William Eggleston
Precision about language can be really, really annoying. It can make you miss the point of what the other person is saying altogether.
— Dana Reinhardt
I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.
— Alan Rickman
Even when people can't speak your language,
they can tell if you have love in your heart. — Pat Nixon
they can tell if you have love in your heart. — Pat Nixon
The thing about language is that once you start getting analytical about it, you can't stop.
— Greg Carlson
It must be powerful language if you canna make oout what the heel it's goin' on aboot!
— Terry Pratchett
Eventually you will get into the habit of enjoying line as a language all of its own.
— Margaret Stevens
To pronounce French properly you must have within you a deep antipathy, not to say scorn, for some of the most sacred of the Anglo-Saxon prejudices.
— Rex Stout
The cool thing about doing a voice-over into a different language is that you get to bring the character of your own culture into it.
— Bridgit Mendler
If you could pick one word in the English language to describe the universe, what would it be? Why?"
Here's my response:
Unfair. — Jordan Sonnenblick
Here's my response:
Unfair. — Jordan Sonnenblick
Isn't the most sensitive point of this mourning the fact that I must lose a language - the amorous language? No more 'I love you's.
— Roland Barthes
I can't relate to lazy people. We don't speak the same language. I don't understand you. I don't want to understand you.
— Kobe Bryant
Finnish is not a language, it is a way of setting at the end of the bench with your fur cap pulled over your ears.
— Paavo Haavikko
All poetry is an ordered voice, one which tries to tell you about a vision in the un-visionary language of farm, city, and love.
— Paul Engle
NEVER allow the enemy to define your terms. If you want to win a war of propaganda, you must be able to manipulate language to expose the truth.
— Jenifer Mohammed
If you can describe clearly without a diagram the proper way of making this or that knot, then you are a master of the English language.
— Hilaire Belloc
Congratulations, Congress! 77% disapproval rating! You may be about to become the English language's most offensive C-word.
— John Oliver
Language always occurs in a context - you can speak Elizabethan words, but to speak the language you have to put on the mindset ...
— John Geddes
I want to touch you.'
'And if you did touch me, what then?'
'I would find a language of beginning. — Jeanette Winterson
'And if you did touch me, what then?'
'I would find a language of beginning. — Jeanette Winterson
English is the perfect language for preachers because it allows you to talk until you think of what to say.
— Garrison Keillor
You don't have to have a language in common with someone for a sexual rapport. But it helps if the language you don't understand is Italian.
— Madonna Ciccone
Some of the most healing words in any language are, "I'm sorry. Will you forgive me?" How much more we need that confession to our Father in heaven.
— Billy Graham
I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.
— Ben Kingsley
And I learnt five new languages in the last three years"
"Only if you could for once understand the language of my eyes. — Sapan Saxena
"Only if you could for once understand the language of my eyes. — Sapan Saxena
No matter what, the Earth is fucked," Rigney said. "Excuse the language, but that's the gist of what I'm hearing from you.
— John Scalzi
Past, present and future are not amenities of language. Time unfolds into the seamsof being. It passes through you, making and shaping.
— Don DeLillo
Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up.
— Herb Ritts
What language are you talking in now? It appears to be bollocks.
— Richard Wilson
What the eye sees is a synthesis of who you are and all you have learned. This is what I would call the language of photography.
— Graciela Iturbide
Language itself changes slowly but the internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you notice them more quickly.
— David Crystal
It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.
— Franklin P. Jones
Rigorously comb through the pages of your life until you can even speak its broken dialects fluently.
— Curtis Tyrone Jones
Foreign-language books are sometimes more beautiful when you can't tell what's being said. It's like you ruin it by reading.
— Craig Thompson
The first rule of translation: make sure you know at least one of the bloody languages!
— Faiz Ahmad Faiz
Programming languages are like girlfriends: The new one is better because *you* are better.
— Derek Sivers
Cat talk is a complicated, self-centered language. If you speak to your cat first, it probably won't speak back. Cats initiate conversations.
— Jean Craighead George
Ojiisan says if you want to understand a people, look at their language. The words write the history, not the other way around.
— Leza Lowitz
I feel like really thinking about art and really appreciating it and learning the language of it just makes you more of a connoisseur. I believe that.
— David Rees
We gave you a perfectly good language and you f***ed up.
— Stephen Fry
Some days you exist like the last speaker of an extinct language. These are the silences that litter the heart.
— Richard Jackson
With languages, you can move from one social situation to another. With languages, you are at home anywhere.
— Edmund De Waal
You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse
— William Shakespeare
The only word in the Martian language is written phonetically:
Kay-ray-kh-kuh-ko-kex.
It means whatever you want it to mean. — Blaise Cendrars
Kay-ray-kh-kuh-ko-kex.
It means whatever you want it to mean. — Blaise Cendrars
The problem with using C++ ... is that there's already a strong tendency in the language to require you to know everything before you can do anything.
— Larry Wall
Music is essentially an emotional language, so you want to feel something from the relationships and build music based on those feelings.
— Howard Shore
Know what you are talking about.
— Pope John Paul II
The Holy Bible is the Language of Heaven; you cannot use the Language of the World to interpret the Holy Bible.
— Felix Wantang
If you're writing about angry people, you use the language of anger. If you're writing about desperate people, you use the language of desperation.
— Chris Crutcher
Verbing Weirds Language only if you're expecting it to work in a simple way. This is a special case of the more general truth that Language Weirds.
— John Lawler
I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery.
— Robert Morgan
Seek always for the best words and the happiest expression you can find.
— Lord Chesterfield
If you are perfectly willing to shock an individual verbally, the next thing you will be doing is to shock him practically.
— Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the language in which Keats and the rest of them wrote!
— Wilfred Owen
You don't realise how language actually interferes with communication until you don't have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense.
— Lily King
Control language and you control thought; control thought and you control action; control action and you control the world.
— Peter Kreeft
If you're offended by any word in any language, it's probably because your parents were unfit to raise a child.
— Doug Stanhope