Language Quotes · Page 217

Dutch is not so much a language as an ailment of the throat.

— John Green

If my words fail, let my eyes and my heart be my language.

— Mirtha Michelle

“There is something of value in trying to put the world into words.”

— Ariel Levy

“...A painting was a translation of the language of my heart.”

— Amy Tan

Twitter is most suitable for me. In the Chinese language, 140 characters is a novella,

— Ai Weiwei

I started out with machine code and assembly language.

— Charles Petzold

Music is its own language - if you don't speak it, it's hard to say what you're trying to do.

— Zedd

Music is the most spiritual language for the human being.

— Celedonio Romero

Writers ever since writing began have had problems, and the main problem narrows down to just one word - life.

— William Styron

Coding is today's language of creativity. All our children deserve a chance to become creators instead consumers of computer science.

— Maria Klawe

As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main…

— Umberto Eco

“Ek is meer bekommerd dat daar nie meer bome vir papier is nie as wat ek bekommerd is oor die toekoms van…

— Eleanor Baker

If language were liquid, it would be rushing in. Instead here we are in a silence more eloquent than any word could…

— Suzanne Vega

The Canadian community must invest, for the defence and better appreciation of the French language, as much time, energy, and money as…

— Pierre Trudeau

Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't really believe anything I say. Because the nature of my work concerns the spaces between the words, rather than the…

— Ram Dass

Even when I'm just sitting at my desk, I have to get up every twenty minutes or so and walk around, walk…

— Paul Auster

Although mathematical notation undoubtedly possesses parsing rules, they are rather loose, sometimes contradictory, and seldom clearly stated. [...] The proliferation of programming…

— Kenneth E. Iverson

Balancing my career between two industries has never been an issue. I started with a Telugu film and have a soft corner…

— Kajal Aggarwal

I'm chasing a kind of language that can be unburdened by people's expectations. I think music is the primary model-how close can…

— Terrance Hayes

So the aim for the press was a mixture of things: to publish under-represented writing, which is an intersection of original language,…

— Deborah Smith

How strange that excision – female circumcision, with several languages using the same term for both kinds of mutilation – of little…

— Michel Onfray

Many of us have to spell words such as "out," "cookie," and "bath" when conversing with other people, lest we unnecessarily excite…

— Warren Eckstein

When I grew up, there were no teletypewriters or video calls, so I primarily interpreted phone calls. At that time, where I…

— Jack Jason

A writer can have only one language, if language is going to mean anything to him.

— Philip Larkin

It's such a pleasure to write down splendid words—almost as though one were inventing them.

— Rupert Hart-Davis

I got introduced to Shakespeare at four years old, and I fell in love with the language.

— John David Washington

“Seward would inspire a cow with statesmanship if she understood our language.”

— Henry Adams

When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it's funny in any language.

— Alan Garner

“What need was there for words, when we had just shared the sky?”

— Melanie Benjamin

I'm laying down my new audio book. No writing, just spoken words, the old fashioned way.

— Danny Mcbride

Through words to the meaning of thoughts with no words.

— Dejan Stojanovic

The piano is not really in the language of the 'Game of Thrones' score.

— Ramin Djawadi

He cared for languages dead long enough that they wouldn’t change on him.

— Maggie Stiefvater

“Some things are just too unjust for words, and too ambiguous for either speech or ideas.”

— Ralph Ellison

For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond.

— Anonymous

Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.

— Phyllis McGinley

If, in English, we speak words, the French speak thoughts.

— Peter Brook

You must take responsibility for removing I can't from your vocabulary.

— Jack Canfield

There is one word in America that says it all, and that one word is, 'You never know.

— Joaquin Andujar