Quotes of: Languages Keyword

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

After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country.

Hu Shih

In my career, I played for four different teams in a lot of different systems, and it's like learning another language.

Ron Jaworski

Sometimes the archaism of the language when it's spoken is why we are all in love with the Irish today.

Diane Wakoski

He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish.

Jose Rizal

To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing.

Edith Piaf

I feel that working now is the way for me to learn things, whether it's languages or another activity.

Elena Roger

No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality.

Edward Sapir

The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.

A. E. Waite

Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.

Ferdinand de Saussure

Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public.

George Crane

The devastating repercussions of hate-filled language manifest in very real ways for today's LGBTQ youth.

Cheyenne Jackson

I chose a pseudonym, Chris Marker, pronounceable in most languages, because I was very intent on traveling.

Chris Marker