Quotes of: Different-language Keyword

I loved England's gentility and its civility. I'm from the Bronx, with a Bronx accent. I love the beauty of its language, the ways it's spoken. I love the green grass of England and the flowers.

Sid Bernstein

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

Abraham Maslow

Nonverbal communication forms a social language that is in many ways richer and more fundamental than our words.

Leonard Mlodinow

Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.

Nawal El Saadawi

Consciousness surely does not depend on language. Babies, many animals, and patients robbed of speech by brain damage are not insensate robots; they have reactions like ours that indicate that someone's home.

Steven Pinker

I hope to have more time to think, to look at the sky, dealing with less crisis management, to learn another language, to travel.

Juliet Stevenson

I have a high regard for Native languages and the pivotal role they have played in our nation's history.

Rick Renzi

Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels.

Willard Van Orman Quine

There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color, or religion.

Malala Yousafzai

If you aspire to be a leader of your own country, you must speak your own language, for God's sake.

Vladimir Putin

God has stated in clear and concise language how He created the universe and we ought not to doubt His Word.

Walter Lang

I consider myself a pretty good conversationalist, but you wind up being downgraded to idiot status when you don't speak the language!

Alec Baldwin

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

Alice Walker

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.

Ezra Pound

I don't see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty - and evaporating quickly.

Dick Cavett

APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums.

Edsger Dijkstra

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.

Gaston Bachelard

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Second, we also got a more authentic liturgy of the people of God, in the vernacular language.

Hans Kung

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

Alfred North Whitehead

It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them.

Edward Sapir