“Words have power, power we fail to recognize time and time again. Both spoken words and written words have an impact that… — Sarah Holman Copy Share Image
C++ is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot of substandard programmers use it, to the… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Abstract words… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“After all, this is what learning is: as we learn a task, we get better at it, be it tennis, geometry, or… — Ethem Alpaydin Copy Share Image
My words are like a ship, and the sea is their meaning. Come to me and I will take you to the… — Rumi Copy Share Image
One of the important things about familiar form and metricality is that it draws attention to the physical nature of language: the… — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
We have American Sign Language here. There's also British Sign Language and Mexican Sign Language. I could meet a deaf person from… — Lauren Ridloff Copy Share Image
Nature has a language of its own, or maybe those who have lived long in solitude read in it their own unconscious… — Alexandra David-Neel Copy Share Image
We live in a culture that has institutionalized the oppression of animals on at least two levels: in formal structures such as… — Carol J. Adams Copy Share Image
I wanted to show the world, and myself too, what I can do. I came up in the world of Philadelphia soul,… — Daryl Hall Copy Share Image
“The speech fascinated him. His ear caught the rhythm of it and he noted their idioms and worked some of them into… — William Lindsay Gresham Copy Share Image
When they first built the University of California at Irvine they just put the buildings in. They did not put any sidewalks,… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
The complexity of the language of images is disguised by the ease and rapidity with which we read them. I've tried to… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
What distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the development of language… — John Berger Copy Share Image
I don't follow anything blindly. I have to know the entire thing, if I have to get in to it. It might… — Kailash Kher Copy Share Image
The text you write must prove to me that it desires me. This proof exists: it is writing. Writing is: the science… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
When my books were translated, it was always about the characters, because the unique language aspect was lost in translation. — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
It was pleasant to talk shop again; to use that elliptical, allusive speech that one uses only with another of one's trade. — Josephine Tey Copy Share Image
A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says… — Hallie Ephron Copy Share Image
If we want to be heard we must speak in a language the listener can understand and on a level at which… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
“How she hated words, always coming between her and her life: they did the ravishing, if anything did: ready-made words and phrases,… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“I had never been good with words. On the path from my heart to my brain to my mouth, phrases became twisted… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“Perception is always interrogative and conditional and is invariably based (even if we do not realize it) on a bet.” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Given Loughner's obsession with meaninglessness and language, maybe Foucault & Derrida deserve some fault here, too.” — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
I always squirm when I read what's called 'creative nonfiction,' and the writer is lobbing gobs of emotion and language at the… — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Spaniards are fun-loving people, and they love to dance to Punjabi songs for some reason. They didn't understand the language but enjoyed… — Nia Sharma Copy Share Image
Stay away from restaurants that have menus in five languages. That's always a tourist trap. You want to eat where the locals… — Curtis Stone Copy Share Image
I like to call someone a raving c**t every now and then, when it’s appropriate, for effect (...) ‘You cocksucker.’ I love… — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
“The best words in the best order...one always go the same shock of recognition and delight when someone's words swam up to… — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
Let my teaching fall like rain and my words descend like dew, like showers on new grass, like abundant rain on tender… — Moses Copy Share Image
My favorite language for maintainability is Python. It has simple, clean syntax, object encapsulation, good library support, and optional named parameters. — Bram Cohen Copy Share Image
“If I opened my mouth to say a single word, all of the other expired words would have followed and spilled to… — Kyung-sook Shin Copy Share Image
Language is the expression of ideas, and if the people of one country cannot preserve an identity of ideas they cannot retain… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
People who work in specialized fields seem to have their own language. Practitioners develop a shorthand to communicate among themselves. The jargon… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
“It is one of the most mysterious penalties of men that they should be forced to confide the most precious of their… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of… — Michael Gove Copy Share Image
[On the United States:] A nation which does not appreciate that the simple elocution exercise 'Merry Mary married hairy Harry' contains not… — Jessica Mitford Copy Share Image
Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
The grammar of a language is simply the way it combines smaller elements (such as words) into larger elements (such as sentences). — Larry Trask Copy Share Image
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