JavaScript is the only language that I'm aware of that people feel they don't need to learn before they start using it. — Douglas Crockford Copy Share Image
“Learning a language promoted the first tender shoots of intercultural understanding. People became familiar with previously alien concepts and, as a consequence,… — Fay Abernethy Copy Share Image
There is no word in the English language for the feeling someone gets when they suddenly realize they're standing next to an… — David Wong Copy Share Image
Language is like drinking from one's own reflection in still water. We only take from it what we are at the time. — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
I'd like to move to some country with a language that I dont understand, and live there for the rest of my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Where true Love burns Desire is Love's pure flame; It is the reflex of our earthly frame, That takes its meaning from… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
There are some people who could hear your speak a thousand words and still not understands you. And there are others who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The littlest world I now is I and the sweetist word I now is LOVE. and the person I will never stop… — Meh Copy Share Image
Think about Elizabethan English, where the entire English language behaved pretty much like molten lava, like a volcano in mid-eruption. Modern Hebrew… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
I remember people saying that Atletico wanted me, that they are a big team, and that it will be a big challenge… — Thibaut Courtois Copy Share Image
“We live in a society that is based on 30-second sound bites. We have technology that puts all of the information of… — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
I didn't speak a single word of English when I was told that I was one of the lucky students been selected… — Li Cunxin Copy Share Image
“The renunciation of the child’s sexual ambitions and dyadic unity with the mother is established through the father’s presence, which stands for… — Stephen A. Mitchell Copy Share Image
The influence exercised over the human mind by apt analogies is and has always been immense. Whether they translate an established truth… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“I don't even bother looking for words. It flows in me, more or less quickly. I fix nothing, I let it go.… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Language lies outside of society because it is its foundation; but it also lies within society because that is the only place… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Hip-hop saved me. It gave me permission to use language in a certain way. It validated my community and my friends. It… — Jason Reynolds Copy Share Image
An ear will never do you wrong, but I know writers who... most of the language they use is just extracted language… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Words are weapons, and it is dangerous in speculation, as in politics, to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“Every time you speak, you are either building up yourself for the better or you are limiting yourself for the worse. Words… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
The objective level is not words, and cannot be reached by words alone. We must point our finger and be silent, or… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. This… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Once I unlocked the mystery of the alphabet that led to words, a multitude of words connecting me to the world, there… — Gloria Naylor Copy Share Image
Sport, which mimics the language and emotional intensity of war but eliminates the fatal destruction, may be a form of redemption. — Ed Ayres Copy Share Image
The human need for language is not simply for the transmission of meaning, it is at the same time listening to and… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
Everyone talks to their dog, and then in your mind the dog talks back. A talking dog can provide the words that… — Mike Mills Copy Share Image
When I last went to Italy, over two years ago, I had a lot more trouble understanding the language than I used… — Marcel Carne Copy Share Image
I'm aware of cliches and I'm aware of experiments that have been done and I'm aware of a kind of deadness to… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
The images, the language, of pornography, and romance are alike; monotonous and mechanically seductive, quickly leading to despair. — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
Geometry in every proposition speaks a language which experience never dares to utter; and indeed of which she but halfway comprehends the… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
The language of poetry is not stuck in place. Nothing can own language. I think, however, the genre of poetry itself is… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Listening is not understanding the words of the question asked, listening is understanding why the question was asked in the first place. — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
Every film had its own grammar. And it's your job as a director to basically figure out a language to tell a… — Darren Aronofsky Copy Share Image
Language is an anonymous, collective and unconscious art; the result of the creativity of thousands of generations. — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers. — Doug Larson Copy Share Image
“[A] person is formed from a continuum of words and actions over time and cannot be reduced to a fixed “self” that… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
Thus the theory of description matters most. It is the theory of the word for those For whom the word is the… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image