Quotes of: Foreign-languages Keyword

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

Alan Perlis

Mind in language are inseparable. If we violate our language we violate ourselves.

William Zinsser

For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.

Deborah Tannen

I have dreamed of that song, of the strange words to that simple rhyme-song, and on several occasions I have understood what she was saying, in my dreams. In those dreams I spoke that language too, the first language, and I had dominion over the natu...

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

Better wise language than well combed hair.

Icelandic

Walkers are 'practitioners of the city,' for the city is made to be walked. A city is a language, a repository of possibilities, and walking is the act of speaking that language, of selecting from those possibilities. Just as language limits what can...

Wanderlust: A History of Walking

You came so that you could learn about your dreams," said the old woman. "And dreams are the language of God. When he speaks in our language, I can interpret what he has said. But if he speaks in the language of the soul, it is only you who can under...

Paulo Coelho

I am a part of the old school where I feel that purity of the language should be retained. But English is a constantly evolving language where new words are being added to the dictionary, so I don't see any harm in experimenting with the language. On...

Ashwin Sanghi

Gone. The saddest word in the language. In any language.

God's Fool

Action is the universal language of success.

Life, the Truth, and Being Free

One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand

Novalis

There is no other word in the English language more life-changing than Hello

Patrick Stevens

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

Noam Chomsky

It's like there are all these languages available, especially in terms of image. Why confine yourself to only English? There's all these languages and possibilities and concepts to speak or communicate with.

William Wiley

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

Ronald Reagan

My dad is a minister, and my mum is a worker with the less fortunate and the disabled. They're Nigerian natives. Their first language is Yoruba, and their second language is English.

John Boyega

If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls.

Guido van Rossum

The three most dreaded words in the English language are 'negative cash flow'.

David Tang

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

Edward Appleton

Music is the Universal Language that allows all people to communicate with each other.

Ellen J. Barrier

When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.

Billy Sunday