Own Language Quotes

76 Own Language quotes by 66 unique authors

If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls. — Guido van Rossum
The easiest books are generally the best; for, whatever author is obscure and difficult in his own language, certainly does not think clearly. — Bill Vaughan
Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an old Scripture-reader who spent… — Lady Gregory
No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but… — Jacques Derrida
An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to… — Henri Matisse
The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard! — Manuel Puig
He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish. — Jose Rizal
To create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language - That's… — Jimmy Wales
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots… — Mark Twain
By now they had mastered my own language, but they still made simple mistakes, like using 'hermeneutics,' when they meant 'heuristic'. — Woody Allen
She stood before him and surrendered herself to him and sky, forest, and brook all came toward him in new and resplendent colors, belonged to… — Hermann Hesse
Families are like countries. They have their own language and jokes and secrets and assumptions about the right and wrong ways of doing things, and… — Roland Merullo
Now and again he spoke to those that served him and thanked them in their own language. They smiled at him and said laughing: 'Here… — J.R.R. Tolkien
When you are a kid you have your own language, and unlike French or Spanish or whatever you start learning in fourth grade, this one… — Jodi Picoult
He who knows other languages feels even closer to his own language. — KatÃ³ Lomb
It is the task of the translator to release in his own language that pure language that is under the spell of another, to liberate… — Walter Benjamin
The heart has its own language. The heart knows a hundred thousand ways to speak. — Unknown Author
We sit for a few more moments, although there's really nothing left to say. This is new to me, too, an entire conversation that takes… — Jodi Picoult
The French just said he was a damned nuisance. Or they would have had they the good fortune to speak English. Instead being French they… — Lauren Willig

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