Quotes of: English-language Keyword

It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language.

Samuel Barnett

As a graduate student, I wrote a long paper connecting the dots between mathematical models of learning and language development in children. It was published in a major journal.

Steven Pinker

I had to find my own language in jewelry. That was important to me; it really had to be what I would love to have myself.

Ann Demeulemeester

I love the German and the Swiss people for their many fine traits of character. I love their language that is so exacting and yet so expressive.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social factors, one's own language above all.

Edward Sapir

I think every artist strives for a record that crosses all energy, lines, boundaries or languages or barriers.

Estelle

The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression.

Eugene Wigner

It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.

Franklin P. Jones

Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of languages.

Ferdinand de Saussure

The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such.

Ferdinand de Saussure

I analyse in my own way, in very simple, no-jargon language. If somebody is talking in very complicated way, I never like that.

Gautam Adani

They say that maths is a language. So how do I order a pizza with extra cheese in maths?

Greg Curtis

The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language.

Christopher Dawson

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

Hippocrates

If the warmth of her Language could affect the body it might be worth reading in this weather.

Jane Austen

Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that.

John le Carre

Music is the sweetest language for hearts, kindest prayer for souls, peaceful breeze for minds, and a magical sail for imaginations.

Debasish Mridha

I got my dog back, in African-American language, your dog means your passion, your fire.

Deion Sanders

Modesty in dress and language and deportment is a true mark of refinement and a hallmark of a virtuous Latter-day Saint woman.

Ezra Taft Benson

The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.

Edward Gibbon

Fiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children.

Ben Marcus