Quotes of: Programming-language Keyword

Ideology is strong exactly because it is no longer experienced as ideology… we feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.

In Defense of Lost Causes

A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and a culture, and the living embodiment of the thoughts and fancies that have moulded them

The Discovery of India

I still have enough faith in language to believe that if I place enough words next to each other on the page, they will start to speak with sounds of their own.

The Dream of Perpetual Motion

Nobody is capable of of free speech unless he knows how to use language, and such knowledge is not a gift: it has to learned and worked at. [p.93]

The Educated Imagination

Language ... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.

The Eternal Now

But things change, people change - as do perceptions of people, and now I answer in a language that I hope my teenage self will understand.

The First Last Kiss

The Holy Bible is the Spirit of God exposed to humanity in the Language of Heaven.

Face to Face Meetings With Jesus Christ 2: Preparing for God's Paradise

Now and again he spoke to those that served him and thanked them in their own language. They smiled at him and said laughing: 'Here is a jewel among hobbits!

The Fellowship of the Ring

I would like to write a suicide note in three and a half languages and travel south on a Thursday towards some form of life outside of earth

Amigo Warfare

I feel like a failure." The expression comes so naturally that we forget it is a figure of speech: the language of business applied to the soul.

Born Losers: A History of Failure in America

The language of love is unspoken. It is a feeling, an acknowledgment, and acceptance of not only our human frailties, but our divine eminence.

Brain Drain The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life

You cannot legislate language. Prohibition never worked, right? Not for booze and not for sex and not for words.

Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen

Nobody knows everything—one of the pleasures of language is that there is always something new to learn—and everybody makes mistakes.

Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume II: 1939-1948

I met my grandfather just before he died, and it was the first time that I had seen Dad with a relative of his. It was interesting to see my own father as a son and the body language and alteration in attitude that comes with that, and it sort of cha...

Christian Bale

In a way, writing is an incredible act of individualism, producing your language, and yet to use it from the heart of a crowd as opposed to as an individual performance is a conflicting thing. I do stand alone, and yet it's not about being an individ...

Arundhati Roy

Probably only an art-worlder like me could assign deeper meaning to something as simple and silly as Tebowing. But, to us, anytime people repeat a stance or a little dance, alone or together, we see that it can mean something. Imagistic and unspoken ...

Jerry Saltz

I think physical comedy is an amazing asset because it tells a story that's more universal than just language and dialogue. I grew up watching Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. They're very powerful figures in my life.

Josh Gad

I used to think that the great thing about sculpture was that, like Stonehenge, it was something that stood against time in an adamantine way, and was an absolute mass in space. Now I try to use the language of architecture to redescribe the body as ...

Antony Gormley

The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture, and the language that we use about politics, it's completely unsustainable. You either decide to be part of that transition to do something different. Or you cling to ol...

Nick Clegg

Sports just happen to be excellent for avoiding foreign-language stage fright and developing lasting friendships while still sounding like Tarzan.

The 4-Hour Workweek