Language Quotes

5358 quotes by 3063 authors

My use of language is part and parcel of my message. — Theo Van Gogh
While I admire the insights of many of the people in the world of computing, I get this cold feeling that I speak a different… — Clifford Stoll
Because of the Turing completeness theory, everything one Turing-complete language can do can theoretically be done by another Turing-complete language, but at a different cost.… — Yukihiro Matsumoto
In our daily lives as programmers, we process text strings a lot. So I tried to work hard on text processing, namely the string class… — Yukihiro Matsumoto
All I know is that I operate by going out to each of them and trying to learn the territory in which they operate. My… — Sam Mendes
The language of America changed with the election of Bill Clinton, because with all due respect to my friends on the Republican side, Bill Clinton… — Frank Luntz
Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions. — John Langdon
I said in sharp language that that practice was wrong. — Ken Starr
With the requests of some he complied, and has published a discourse, delivered before the Society for recovering drowned persons, which may be justly pronounced… — John Strachan
In the GNOME project we tried to keep the platform language independent. — Miguel de Icaza
We wanted the language to feel fresh, fun, and rock solid. — James Frank
Second, we also got a more authentic liturgy of the people of God, in the vernacular language. — Hans Kung
That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin -… — Hans Kung
The only thing that exists is torment, lyricism, and the magnificence of language. — John C. Hawkes
We had common interests in the beauty of the French language. We both had a tremendous love of jazz. We shared dreams of getting married… — David Amram
Music is a language, you see, a universal language. — Sun Ra
Richard Hugo taught me that anyone with a desire to write, an ear for language and a bit of imagination could become a writer. He… — James Welch
When language was not transcendental enough to complete the meaning of a revelation, symbols were relied upon for heavenly teaching, and familiar images, chosen from… — William H. Hunt
Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision. — Jim Jarmusch
My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the words… — Elfriede Jelinek

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