Language Quotes · Page 272

A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do

— Dennis Ritchie

Technology is a word that describes something that doesn't work yet.

— Douglas Adams

The reality we can put into words is never reality itself.

— Werner Heisenberg

I was fascinated by the shape of words even before I knew what they meant.

— Susie Dent

Because education is such a broad area, I chose to focus on language learning.

— Luis von Ahn

“When ideas fail, words come in very handy.” GOETHE”

— Charles M. Sevilla

Words have a magical power. They can either bring the greatest happiness or the deepest despair.

— Sigmund Freud

“No words in any language can pin down exactly how life and death function.”

— Roshani Chokshi

NVC is founded on language and communication skills that strengthen our ability to remain human, even under trying conditions.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

It's really funny, because if you make up words, then people project their own meanings onto it, which I find interesting.

— Aphex Twin

There is nothing more nervous than a million dollars - it moves very fast, and it doesn't speak any language.

— Jean Chretien

Drizzt had always suspected it, but now it was confirmed, that "welcome" was his favortie word in the Common Tongue, and a…

— Anonymous

You're all mad for words. Words are just farts from a lot of fools who have swallowed too many books. Give me…

— Robertson Davies

Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into…

— Edward Abbey

Kind words are benedictions. The are not only instruments of power, but of benevolence and courtesy; blessings both to the speaker and…

— Arthur Frederick Saunders

The feelings which seek expression in words are mostly egotistical, since they seek to express what flatters our self-love and can show…

— Lorenzo Scupoli

I think if you study people in the street today, you do sometimes feel that they have taken their behavior and their…

— Ronald Frame

Women and men communicate differently, often on entirely different planes. But just as men have failed us, we have failed them. It…

— Norah Vincent

“Although the repetition of a word or phrase is a preparatory practice and is itself not meditation, choosing a word or phrase…

— Gudjon Bergmann

I didn't have many friends. I was very shy ... And, then, even worse, when I was 14 I became Gothic. I…

— Riccardo Tisci

“That’s often the problem with rulers. They move people with their words, and because they do, they believe that they can use…

— L.E. Modesitt Jr

I don't know anyone who has described that terrible yearning for ecstasy and immolation through music as lucidly as Sean Madigan Hoen…

— Jaimy Gordon

Obama sees the world in two ways: from the black perspective and from the white perspective. He was raised as a black…

— Michael Eric Dyson

Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign…

— Yao Ming

Words can fertilize space now and then; don't deny yourself becoming enriched.

— Rumi

One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them ...

— Hart Crane

Your words and my words are the same, but not our meaning.

— Mason Cooley

The language may be different, but the understanding is always the sam

— Kwesi Darko

“Spirituality has a language of it's own and some people haven't learned to speak it.”

— Shannon L. Alder

...a figure of speech can often get into a crack too small for a definition.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

In a conversation, the words can get stuck, I don't know what to say, I get very anxious.

— Florence Welch

However virile the English language may be, it can never become the language of the masses of India.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Art Education is as important for a realist artist as an Alphabet is to learn a language.

— Igor Babailov

“common language was a wonderful idea, but utterly utopian. All good ideas were, she said sadly.”

— Kate Atkinson

“When words amount to nothing, Kindness is everything.”

— Joanna Alamo

“[...] words are tricky little bastards, and very rarely say what you want them to say [...]”

— Jonathan Coe

Language is so important to the Irish, almost regardless of education.

— Jessie Buckley

The poem in the head is always perfect. Resistance begins when you try to convert it into language.

— Stanley Kunitz

She learned to say things with her eyes that others waste time putting into words

— Corey Ford

Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.

— Marilyn vos Savant