Quotes of: English-language Keyword

I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.

Terry Pratchett

The language of love letters is the same as suicide notes.

Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney Love

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

Leonard Cohen

Never ask a woman if you may kiss her. Instead, learn to read body language.

Neil Strauss

The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things.

Paulo Coelho

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

According to [Galway] Kinnell, to make a poem you need the creatures of the world, language, and the unconsious brought together.

Patricia Kirkpatrick

Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed in a meaningful manner.

Paul Ricoeur

And as this creation itself is poetry, so its creators were poets; and language was the instrument of their art

Percy Bysshe Shelley

I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.

Quentin Tarantino

Tolkien made dwarf sign language because, you know, it's too loud to talk in the mines.

Richard Armitage

I'm afraid the Internet is filled with people using really very intemperate language.

Richard Dawkins

I just don't like big guys who speak cryptically and act like they understand the language better than me.

Robert Downey, Jr.

In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system.

Ralph Fiennes

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.

Robert G. Ingersoll

My mission at Google is to develop natural language understanding with a team and in collaboration with other researchers at Google.

Ray Kurzweil

I'm trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through.

Sean Lennon

To excavate is to open a book written in the language that the centuries have spoken into the earth.

Spyridon Marinatos

The truth is, we don't have an easy language for emotional life. That's why we have writers.

Susie Orbach

No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.

Sam Rayburn

There's a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was more complicated, especially in the jazz and classical world.

Tori Amos