Language Quotes

5358 quotes by 3185 authors

Language is much closer to film than painting is. — Sergei Eisenstein
Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its capacious and accommodating… — Peter Ackroyd
Math is the language of the universe. — Lucas Grabeel
The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But we cannot speak… — Werner Heisenberg
The Semantic Web isn't inherently complex. The Semantic Web language, at its heart, is very, very simple. It's just about the relationships between things. — Tim Berners-Lee
Ever since the arrival of printing - thought to be the invention of the devil because it would put false opinions into people's minds -… — David Crystal
We're losing social skills, the human interaction skills, how to read a person's mood, to read their body language, how to be patient until the… — Vincent Nichols
To me the drawn language is a very revealing language: one can see in a few lines whether a man is really an architect. — Eero Saarinen
Taste and smell are often the beggars among our five senses - they leave no written language and therefore no standards other than wholly personal… — Frank Schoonmaker
In order to draw a limit to thinking, we should have to think both sides of this limit. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
We cut nature up, organize it into concepts, and ascribe significances as we do, largely because we are parties to an agreement to organize it… — Benjamin Lee Whorf
The belief that words have a meaning of their own account is a relic of primitive word magic, and it is still a part of… — Charles Kay Ogden
Even the most scientific investigator in science, the most thoroughgoing Positivist, cannot dispense with fiction; he must at least make use of categories, and they… — Havelock Ellis
The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression. — Eugene Wigner
I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key. — Gustave Flaubert
The trodden worm curls up. This testifies to its caution. It thus reduces its chances of being trodden upon again. In the language of morality:… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Saddam Hussein also challenged President Bush to a debate. The Butcher of Baghdad vs. the Butcher of the English language. — Jay Leno
I admit that these terms and the diagrams connected with them repel some readers, and fill others with the vain imagination that they have mastered… — Alfred Marshall
Marriage is the internationally recognised system of relationship recognition. It is the global language of love. When we were young, most of us dreamed of… — Peter Tatchell
Through radio I look forward to a United States of the World. Radio is standardizing the peoples of the Earth, English will become the universal… — Arthur E. Kennelly

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