Language Quotes

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Poetry is ordinary language raised to the "N th" power. — Paul Engle
An instrument that sometimes expresses thought, sometimes obscures thought, but most often replaces thought. — Evan Esar
The tongue is the only muscle in the human body that never gets tired [talking]. — Evan Esar
We need a president who's fluent in at least one language. — Buck Henry
A people's speech is the skin of its culture. — Max Lerner
If you will scoff at language study how, save in terms of language, will you scoff? — Mario Pei
You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy best among miners; and so with everything else. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A silly remark can be made in Latin as well as in Spanish. — Miguel de Cervantes
That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted. — George Boole
The greatest single programming language ever designed — Alan Kay
One of the most important and fascinating of all computer languages is Lisp (standing for "List Processing"), which was invented by John McCarthy around the… — Douglas Hofstadter
Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material. — Alan Kay
History is more interesting than politics. — Lennart Meri
I hope one day when I say I'm from Estonia, people don't say: 'What? Where's that?' — Carmen Kass
"We speak different languages, as usual," responded Woland, "but this does not change the things we speak about. Well?..." — Mikhail Bulgakov
Speech sounds can be analyzed into fundamental units called phonemes; these move around like protozoa in a drop of water, and, like protozoa, join together… — L. Sprague de Camp
Language is a city, to the building of which every human being brought a stone; yet he is no more to be credited with the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language, which is a sort of monument, to which each forcible individual in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We shall never understand one another until we reduce the language to seven words. — Khalil Gibran
...language is not the frosting, it's the cake. — Tom Robbins

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