Language Quotes · Page 5

“natural language will always remain the basic interpretation of, and reservoir for, the development of the artificial formalized languages of science.”

— Doris Bradbury

Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring.

— Jesse James Garrett

“Both possessing remarkably rich southern drawls, words loitered on their tongues like drunken drifters when they spoke.”

— Jeffrey Stepakoff

Anytime you're learning a new defense, there's going to be so much of a - everybody uses different words as far as…

— Leighton Vander Esch

“You could say she hid there, in the words, an escape within an escape...”

— Aurelie Sheehan

A room full of words that are nearly the truth but not quite, each note fluttering off the steam of its rose…

— Lauren Oliver

We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.

— Anais Nin

Father, write Your Word in our heart; make us men and women who understand Your truth.

— Alistair Begg

“There's a word for an author who doesn't give up... published.”

— Anonymous

“Language itself is a major resource in the naming of what cannot be named”

— David Simpson

I'm educating myself more about world poetry. I know a lot about contemporary American poetry, so I felt I needed to learn…

— Allison Joseph

Your body language shapes who you are

— Amy Cuddy

It is wrong to use equal language for unequal actions.

— Peter Akinola

I thought that the world was a vast system of signs, a conversation between giant beings. My actions, the cricket's saw, the…

— Octavio Paz

Love your country. Your country is the land where your parents sleep, where is spoken that language in which the chosen of…

— Giuseppe Mazzini

I'm used to big roles and lots of words.

— Christopher Plummer

I don't see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty - and evaporating quickly.

— Dick Cavett

“The concept of country, homeland, dwelling place becomes simplified as "the environment" -- that is, what surrounds us, we have already made…

— Wendell Berry

You can't live in a dialect without tremendous work. Like any muscle, accents and voices and languages are all formed out of…

— Lake Bell

One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.

— Cassandra Clare

Our words are very powerful, always make sure that you use the right words, which encourages people instead of discouraging.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

The producing thing has come quite naturally to me. I feel like for directing, I would like to be more technically-savvy. I…

— Zoe Bell

“If you know only one language, you're a prisoner, stuck in the tyranny of that one language.”

— Andrew Cohen

I think I am less self-assured when I write English than I would be if I were writing in my first language.…

— Louis Begley

[Art] can speak its own language only as long as the images are alive which refuse and refute the established order.

— Herbert Marcuse