Language Quotes

5358 quotes by 3063 authors

Chess is like a language, the top players are very fluent at it. Talent can be developed scientifically but you have to find first what… — Viswanathan Anand
For me, chess is a language, and if it's not my native tongue, it is one I learned via the immersion method at a young… — Garry Kasparov
You can't think and play. If you think about what you're playing the playing becomes stilted. You have to just focus on the music I… — Joe Pass
I photograph from the heart. I adore little babies and I think that shows. My images are really very positive, very simple, and from the… — Anne Geddes
Photography is a medium, a language, through which I might come to experience directly, live more closely with, the interaction between myself and nature. — Paul Caponigro
The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by chance, not system. — Walker Evans
Although photography generates works that can be called art-it requires subjectivity, it can lie, it gives aesthetic pleasure-photography is not, to begin with, an art… — Susan Sontag
In contrast to the written account-which, depending on its complexity of thought, reference, and vocabulary, is pitched at a larger or smaller readership-a photograph has… — Susan Sontag
Photography is a language more universal than words. — Minor White
Javier Chevanton don't speak the language too good. — Unknown Author
One barrier... is the impoverishment of classroom language, the failure to cultivate a common vocabulary about inquiry, explanation, argument and problem solving. — David Perkins
More and more as we come closer and closer in touch with nature and its teachings are we able to see the Divine and are… — George Washington Carver
The whole language of nature informs us, that in animated beings there is something above our powers of investigation; something which employs, combines, and arranges… — Humphry Davy
Nature is a book of many pages and each page tells a fascinating story to him who learns her language. Our fertile valleys and craggy… — Unknown Author
When I consider the multitude of associated forces which are diffused through nature - when I think of that calm balancing of their energies which… — Michael Faraday
The statement "I am in pain" may be one piece of evidence for the conclusion that the speaker is in pain, but it is not… — Peter Singer
There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language. — Henri Bergson
Language makes infinite use of finite media. — Wilhelm von Humboldt
Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to… — Andrzej Wajda
Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing. — Claude Levi-Strauss

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