Quotes of: Human-language Keyword

Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.

Walt Whitman

There is a wealth of readership for regional language literature in India that is not given importance. We must give respect to our own languages.

Amish Tripathi

My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation.

Niklaus Wirth

The French no longer respect their language, because they no longer love themselves, and, no longer loving themselves, they no longer love what was the instrument of their glory - their language.

Maurice Druon

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Roland Barthes

What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man.

Stephen Greenblatt

You can just enjoy music without understanding it, muusic is a universal language.

Life

The connection being that in my head all language began in song and that the best stories inevitably reutrn to song, to a state of rapture. For years, I had assumed that throwing beautiful words at the page would make my prose feel true. But I had th...

Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life: A Book by and for the Fanatics Among Us

Is it possible to make a sharp distinction between the content and the the form, between the personality of the Texas auctioneer and the language that he uses? Are not our attitudes toward people and events in great part shaped by the very language i...

The Language of the American South

He liked to start sentences with okay, so. It was a habit he had picked up from the engineers. He thought it made him sound smarter, thought it made him sound like them, those code jockeys, standing by the coffee machine, talking faster than he could...

Sorry Please Thank You: Stories

For Mercy has a human heart; Pity, a human face; And Love, the human form divine: And Peace the human dress. Songs of Innocence Cruelty has a human heart And jealousy a human face, Terror the human form divine, And secrecy the human dress. The human ...

William Blake

Spanish is the language of lovers, Italian is for the singer, French for diplomats, and German for horses.

Spanish

Verbalize someone's actions back to them. Menace them with language, the language mirror. Death by feedback.

The Flame Alphabet

Love is something you do for someone else, not something you do for yourself.

The Five Love Languages Singles Edition

Ten percent tithes is unbiblical; God is not interested in numbers.

Face to Face Meetings With Jesus Christ: The Language of Heaven

You cannot love God and tolerate evil. Psalm 97:10.

Face to Face Meetings With Jesus Christ: The Language of Heaven

...language always occurs in a context - you can speak Elizabethan words, but to speak the language you have to put on the mindset...

A Familiar Rain

They had nothing in common but the English language, and tried by its help to express what neither of them understood.

Howards End

Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Marshall McLuhan

Cats are always there when you need them, asleep, telling you with their body language that they don’t need you.

$3.33

English is a beautiful language, a remarkably precise language with a million words to choose from to deliver your exact shade of meaning.

An Italian Affair