Language Quotes

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The idea of a language more simple than ours. — Unknown Author
Well it was not exactly a dissertation in logic, at least not the kind of logic you would find in Whitehead and Russell's Principia Mathematica… — Alonzo Church
The heart of the matter seems to me to be the direct interaction between one's making a poem in English and a poem in the… — Robert Fitzgerald
That is where the irony of the film comes off, in terms of the language it employs - where he tries desperately to be a… — Atom Egoyan
All the dialogue on tape, and we'd play the tape in performance. Then I thought it'd be interesting if the actor's repeated what they heard… — Richard Foreman
I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose… — Arthur Golden
The Internet is not just one thing, it's a collection of things - of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language. — Jim Clark
Whoever realizes that the six senses aren't real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body,… — Bodhidharma
Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis good works make the man. — Eliza Cook
Even if you didn't see the movie, you'd see two words you'd never seen put together before - comedy and Muslim. Comedy is friendly -… — Albert Brooks
A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen. — Paul Graham
In the plays - that's where I go crazy. But my prose has a much lighter touch; it's not trying to thrill with language, just… — Denis Johnson
I don't know what 'operational control' of the border means, but I do understand the English language. And as I understand that phrase, that's not… — John Cornyn
The only problem was that I couldn't communicate with Dario. He speaks Italian and I don't. We had a translator the whole time. I just… — Kim Hunter
There's a lot of money with a lot of big law firms that have a tremendous amount at stake by getting the right language to… — Frank Luntz
Words can sometimes be used to confuse, but it's up to the practitioners of the study of language to apply them for good and not… — Frank Luntz
But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer… — Thomas Lynch
If I were assigned poems I suppose I'd write more of them but it is entirely voluntary and for the most part ignored in the… — Thomas Lynch
Knowing some Greek helped defuse forbidding words - not that I counted much on using them. You'll find only trace elements of this language in… — James Merrill
Senator, we just don't use that kind of language on the floor of the Senate. — Mike Mansfield

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