InspiringQuotes

Language Quotes:

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

source: A. E. Waite (2012). “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot”, p.2, Courier Corporation

topic: Symbolism, Tarot, Language

Quotation Mark Twain Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and Quotes

Music is all about transporting people; speaking a language which languages fail to express.

source: Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. May 19, 2014.

topic: People, Language, Failing

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I want to go beyond the restrictions of language, religion and caste, and music is the only thing that allows me to do that.

topic: Want, Language, Restriction, Castes

Quotation H Jackson Brown Jr Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English It Quotes

I gravitate toward the larger worldview questions such as, Why are we here? What are we supposed to be doing? What does it mean to know another person? To love someone? Of course, those questions are sort of in the background as I'm playing with language in the foreground, but those are the informing questions.

source: "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

topic: Mean, Doe, Language, Foreground

Quotation Salman Rushdie Language is courage the ability to conceive a thought to Quotes

Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.

- Abbie Hoffman

source: Abbie Hoffman (1968). “Revolution for the hell of it”

topic: People, Wish, Language

At a priesthood meeting... the strongest language in regard to Plural Marriage was used that I ever heard, and among other things it was stated that all men in position who would not observe and fulfill that law should be removed from their places.

- Abraham H. Cannon

topic: Men, Law, Language

Expression and communication in the peakâ€“experiences tend often to become poetic, mythical, and rhapsodic, as if this were the natural kind of language to express such states of being.

- Abraham Maslow

topic: Communication, Expression, Language, Peak Experiences

Language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

- Abraham Maslow

topic: Communication, Way, Language, Language And Communication, Languages Communication

Speak the language of the person you want to become.

source: Adam Braun (2015). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

topic: Want, Language, Speak

Gore speaks to America as if English is its second language; George W. speaks as if English is his second language.

topic: America, Language, Speak

Perhaps we should keep our monsters about us, lest we become them ourselves.

topic: Book, Monsters, Language

We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.

source: Adam Gopnik (2000). “Paris to the Moon”, Random House Incorporated

topic: Swim, Firsts, Language

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

- Adrienne Rich

topic: Relationship, Language, Concentration, Power Of Language, Language And Power

There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.

- Agnes Repplier

topic: Education, Language, Liberal Education

When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It's nourishing; it's rejuvenating.

topic: Feel Good, Body, Language

It was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we'd read about it in a manual, translated from another language, and were doing our best with what we could understand.

topic: Daughter, Father, Language, Exchanging

My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.

topic: Shy, Firsts, Language, Being Shy, Thrust

Act averse to nasty language and partial to fruity tea.

- Al Swearengen

topic: Tea, Nasty, Language

When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it's funny in any language.

topic: Monkeys, Language

The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.

topic: Firsts, Language, Programming, Programming Languages

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.

topic: Technology, Machines, Language

Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.

topic: Language, Building, Materials, Lisp, Computer Language

The greatest single programming language ever designed

topic: Language, Programming, Programming Languages, Lisp

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

source: "Epigrams on Programming". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), pp. 7-13, pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de. September 1982.

topic: Attention, Levels, Language, Low Level

In English every word can be verbed.

source: "Epigrams on Programming". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), pp. 7-13, pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de. September 1982.

topic: Language, English Language

In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.

topic: Language, Programming, Programming Languages

Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.

topic: Progress, Language, Programming

A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.

topic: Learning, Thinking, Language

Well, visual language is another boring discussion about the nature of film.

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Language, Film, Boring

As we read a text in our own language, the text itself becomes a barrier.

- Alberto Manguel

topic: Language, Barriers

For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Intuition, Language, Spite, Solitary Confinement

I consider myself a pretty good conversationalist, but you wind up being downgraded to idiot status when you don't speak the language!

topic: Wind, Idiot, Language

I hardly ever talk- words seem such a waste, and they are none of them true. No one has yet invented a language from my point of view.

- Aleister Crowley

topic: Views, Waste, Language

Even so, sometimes I wish I did have a little bit more flair in my language.

- Alex Berenson

source: "Fact and Fiction in The Shadow Patrol". Interview with June Thomas, www.slate.com. April 10, 2012.

topic: Wish, Littles, Language

Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and it's reflected in his writings.

source: Interview with Maximilian Le Cain, sensesofcinema.com. January 2003.

topic: Writing, Conservative, Language, Writers And Poets

Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.

topic: Squares, Littles, Language

Kindness is a universal language regardless of age, nationality or religion.

- Alex Ferguson

topic: Kindness, Age, Language, Universal Language, Nationality

A thug only understands you when you speak his language

- Alexander Lukashenko

topic: Memorable, Thug, Language

I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.

- Alexander Pushkin

topic: Want, Study, Language

One of the most frustrating words in the human language, as far as I could tell, was love" - Bethany

- Alexandra Adornetto

topic: Language, Frustrating, Humans, Favorite Foods, Human Language

Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.

- Alexandre Dumas

topic: Opportunity, Mastery, Language

The tie of language is perhaps the strongest and the most durable that can unite mankind.

- Alexis de Tocqueville

topic: Ties, Language, Mankind

Mathematics is pure language - the language of science. It is unique among languages in its ability to provide precise expression for every thought or concept that can be formulated in its terms.

topic: Unique, Expression, Language

Actually, my correspondent's language is better than mine. He can put his sentiment into words.

- Alfred Hershey

topic: Sentimental, Language, Sentiments

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

- Alfred North Whitehead

topic: Progress, Evolution, Language, Apprehension

Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language.

- Alfred North Whitehead

topic: Math, Ordinary, Language, Written Language

How many languages do we really speak?

topic: Language, Speak

Zis and zat' when uttered by the French is considered charming, but 'dis and dat' as an Africanism is ridiculed as gross and ugly.

- Alice Childress

topic: Prejudice, Ugly, Language, Africanism

Anguish is the universal language

source: Alice Fulton (2015). “Barely Composed: Poems”, p.10, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Language, Anguish, Universal Language

You can never tell about a person by guessing...that's why language was invented. Otherwise, we'd all be like dogs, sniffing each other to find out where we stood.

- Alice Hoffman

topic: Dog, Guessing, Language, Sniffing

The world was a cruder, more vulgar place than the one I had known. This was the language required to live in it, I supposed.

- Alice McDermott

source: Alice McDermott (2013). “Someone”, p.153, A&C Black

topic: World, Language, Vulgar

What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about a plight that must be understood.

source: Alice Miller (2008). “Breaking Down the Wall of Silence: The Liberating Experience of Facing Painful Truth”, p.126, Basic Books

topic: Addiction, Plight, Language, Addiction Recovery, Addicts In Recovery

The exchange of words is a lot like a virtual handshake. Is the writer's grasp of the language strong and bold? Are the words gripping? Direct? Inventive? Sincere?

- Allison Mackie

topic: Strong, Language, Sincere, Gripping

The best translators slip into the glove of a text and then turn it inside out into another language, and the whole thing comes out looking like a brand-new glove again. I'm completely in awe of this skill, since I happen to be both bilingual and a writer, but nevertheless a lousy translator.

- Alma Guillermoprieto

topic: Skills, Gloves, Language, Brand New

One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language.

- Alma Guillermoprieto

topic: Doe, Language, Given

Dictionary: a malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Growth, Language, Literary Devices

Hash, x. There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is. Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable. Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Growth, Definitions, Language, Hash, Literary Devices

The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.

- Ammianus Marcellinus

topic: Truth, Simple, Language

Language is the tool of my trade -and I use them all - all the Englishes I grew up with

topic: Tools, Use, Language

I would say that jazz is my own language.

- Amy Winehouse

topic: Jazz, Language

Art speaks its own language-soul to soul, heart to heart.

topic: Art, Soul, Language, Heart To Heart

I never liked the language of Henry Miller. I don't think ***** has added to our sensual life.

topic: Thinking, Sensual, Language

Life, religion and art all converge in Bali. They have no word in their language for 'artist' or 'art.' Everyone is an artist.

topic: Art, Asia, Language, Bali, Religion And Art

Reality is beyond speech and thought. Only that which can be expressed in words is being said. But what cannot be put intoÂ language is indeed That which IS.

- Anandamayi Ma

topic: Reality, Speech, Language

You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn't have any kind of discussion without permission, without a legal framework behind it.

- Anatoly Chubais

topic: Needs, Language, Kind

Photography is my only language.

- Andre Kertesz

topic: Photography, Photographer, Language

I make music to touch the souls of people as it's a language we all can speak.

topic: People, Soul, Language

It is a tragedy beyond the power of language to convey when what has been imposed on women by force becomes a standard of freedom for women: and all the women say it is so.

- Andrea Dworkin

topic: Tragedy, Language, Force, Power Of Language

It's still a mystery to me exactly how I learned the language. [But] I was 19 years old and I had very urgent things to tell girls.

- Andrei Codrescu

topic: Girl, Years, Language, Tell A Girl

I certainly don't walk around my home or being with my family and just using profane language all the time, but on stage, it's a constant,

- Andrew Dice Clay

topic: Home, Language, My Family

I start by using Chinese and many of the sounds of other languages are similar.

topic: Chinese, Sound, Language

I like to play with someone who can cover a lot of ground and someone with whom you can discuss the language at a reasonable level; otherwise it gets a bit frustrating.

topic: Play, Levels, Language

The language of priorities is the religion of socialism.

- Aneurin Bevan

topic: Priorities, Language, Socialism

Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.

- Angela Carter

source: Angela Carter (1998). “Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings”, Penguin Group USA

topic: Culture, Language, Instruments, Language Culture, Power Of Language

He is, I think, already pondering a magisterial project: that of buggering the English language, the ultimate revenge of the colonialised.

- Angela Carter

topic: Revenge, Thinking, Language

I think you always feel braver in another language.

- Anita Brookner

topic: Thinking, Language, Feels

The only language she could speak was grief. How could he not know that? Instead, she said, "I love you." She did. She loved him. But even that didn't feel like anything anymore.

source: Ann Hood (2008). “The Knitting Circle”, p.18, HarperCollins UK

topic: Grief, Love You, Language

One must not be shy where language is concerned.

source: Ann Patchett (2011). “State of Wonder”, p.198, Bloomsbury Publishing

topic: Shy, Language, Concerned

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.

- Anna Brownell Jameson

topic: Language, Accuracy

I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators 'the haute couture of language.'

- Anna Deavere Smith

topic: Political, Haute Couture, Language, Administrators

I was very adept at acquiring languages.

topic: Language, Adept

A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.

source: Anna Seward (1810). “The Poetical Works of Anna Seward: With Extracts from Her Literary Correspondence”, p.13

topic: Acquisition, Attention, Language, Spares

A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.

topic: Population, Language, Hungry

What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.

topic: Burning, Body, Language

Language grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences. 828

- Anne Sullivan Macy

topic: Needs, Language, Grows

I am influenced by words and the chewiness of language

topic: Language

My French definitely improves the more I drink, as I worry less and less about absolutely perfect grammar. I do speak and understand the language, just not particularly well.

- Anthony Bourdain

topic: Perfect, Worry, Language, Worry Less

Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination.

- Anthony Burgess

topic: Imagination, Records, Language

My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness.

- Anthony Doerr

topic: Silence, Pockets, Language

It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is.

- Anthony Doerr

source: Anthony Doerr (2014). “All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel”, p.503, Simon and Schuster

topic: Language, Inadequate

She was fluent in four languages and yet her fists against the rusted hood were the fullest articulation of her defeat.

- Anthony Marra

topic: Four, Fists, Language, Articulation

What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

topic: Men, Desire, Language, Variance

Languages are true analytical methods.

- Antoine Lavoisier

source: "Elements of Chemistry". Book by Antoine Lavoisier, 1790.

topic: Language, Method

It is impossible to disassociate language from science...To call forth a concept, a word is needed.

- Antoine Lavoisier

topic: Impossible, Language, Needed

Body language is so important, as is composition. You can not say something, and then the body reacts, and it says a lot of things dialogue can also say.

- Anton Corbijn

source: Source: www.esquire.com

topic: Important, Body, Language

What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into concepts...

source: Anton Webern (1975). “The path to the new music”, European Amer Music Dist Corp

topic: Ideas, Want, Language

Language shapes consciousness and from consciousness, our world is shaped.

- Antonella Gambotto-Burke

topic: Our World, Shapes, Language

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.

- Antonin Artaud

source: Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.549, Univ of California Press

topic: Communication, Teeth, Language, Chatter

With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.

- Antonin Artaud

topic: Bombs, Language, Tyranny, Barricades

When you work in a different language you are not so attached to the words.

- Antonio Banderas

topic: Different, Language, Different Languages

The only living language is the language in which we think and have our being.

- Antonio Machado

topic: Thinking, Language

What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same.

- Antonio Porchia

topic: Doe, Lasts, Language

I want to start where language ends.

- Antony Gormley

source: Interview with E. H. Gombrich, www.antonygormley.com. 1995.

topic: Want, Language, Ends

I can feel the power of the words doing the work. Must trust language more.

topic: Language, Feels

Chennai is the birthplace of a new language in cinema. The audiences here are the most evolved moviegoers to be found anywhere in India.

- Anurag Kashyap

topic: India, Cinema, Language, Birthplace, Birth Place

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

source: 1678 The Rover, pt.2, act 3, sc.1.

topic: Money, Language, Speak, Money Talks

It's amazing. The moment you show cash, everyone knows your language.

- Aravind Adiga

source: Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger”, p.177, Atlantic Books Ltd

topic: Money, Cash, Language

Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.

- Aravind Adiga

topic: Study, Language, Columbia, Columbia University

[Y]ou possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.

topic: Voice, Language, Attributes, Demagoguery

Russian is a very deceptive language, because it looks easy at first: it's like setting out for a gentle stroll and realizing that you've committed yourself to scaling Himalayan peaks.

- Armand Hammer

source: Armand Hammer, Neil Lyndon (1988). “Hammer”, Perigee

topic: Looks, Firsts, Language, Deceptive

I don't read my reviews, I measure them.

- Arnold Bennett

source: "The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett - an extraordinary story of ordinary life" by Charlotte Jones, www.theguardian.com. January 1, 2016.

topic: Book, Language, Reviews

I seek a form of language which will express my ideas for our time.

- Arshile Gorky

source: Diane Waddmann, Arshile Gorky (1981). “Arshile Gorky: 1904-1948, a Retrospective”

topic: Ideas, Language, Form

Thoughts there are, not to be translated into any language, and spirits alone can read them.

topic: Spirit, Language

In any language it is a struggle to make a sentence say exactly what you mean.

- Arthur Koestler

topic: Struggle, Mean, Language

True creativity often starts where language ends.

- Arthur Koestler

source: Arthur Koestler (1969). “The Act of Creation”

topic: Business, Creativity, Language

George Orwell once blamed the demise of the English language on politics. It's quite possible he never read a prospectus.

- Arthur Levitt Jr

topic: Demise, Language, English Language

Clarity in language depends on clarity in thought.

- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

topic: Writing, Language, Clarity

Style, is like a frog: you can dissect the thing, but it somehow dies in the process.

source: Arthur Quinn (2012). “Figures of Speech: 60 Ways To Turn A Phrase”, p.5, Routledge

topic: Style, Frogs, Language

Photography is a universal language, transcending the boundaries of race, politics, and nationality.

- Arthur Rothstein

topic: Photography, Race, Language, Universal Language

A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

topic: Language, Difficulty, Translations

Writing in a foreign language - has brought me to the cries of the women silently rebelling in my youth, to my own true origins.

source: Assia Djebar (1993). “Fantasia, an Algerian Cavalcade”, Heinemann Educational Publishers

topic: Writing, Youth, Language

No language is rude that can boast polite writers.

- Aubrey Beardsley

source: Aubrey Beardsley (1921). “Under the Hill: And Other Essays in Prose and Verse”

topic: Communication, Rude, Language

For those of us who write, it is necessary to scrutinize not only the truth of what we speak, but the truth of that language by which we speak it.

topic: Truth, Writing, Language, Scrutinize

As humans we speak one language...

- Avril Lavigne

source: "Avril Lavigne Fires Back Over Claims She Ripped Off 70s Song", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2008.

topic: Funny, Dumb, Language

The four sweetest words in the English language â€” 'You wore me down.'

topic: Four, Language, English Language

You need a team that speaks your language.

- Bahman Ghobadi

topic: Team, Needs, Language

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.

topic: Painting, Language, Paint

Learning astrology is like learning any foreign language. You already have the ideas, concepts, and experiences of your life within you; you are just learning a new language for what you are already experiencing.

- Barbara Goldsmith

source: Barbara Goldsmith (2008). “Astrology Made Easy: A Handy Reference Guide”, p.1, Barbara Goldsmith

topic: Ideas, Astrology, Language

There is no 'cat language.' Painful as it is for us to admit, they don't need one!

- Barbara Holland

topic: Communication, Needs, Language

I've always been very tied to language.

- Barbara Kruger

topic: Language

When I'm drafting right to life language, I don't call up the nuns.

source: "Rep. Stupak Dismisses Letter from Nuns" by Jake Gibson, www.foxnews.com. March 17, 2010.

topic: Language, Drafting, Right To Life

We are facing an external attack against us, which is more dangerous than any other previous wars... We are dealing with those who are extremists, who only know the language of killing and criminality.

- Bashar al-Assad

topic: War, Language, Killing, Criminality

To the young, cliches seem freshly minted.

source: BEL KAUFMAN (1964). “UP THE DOWN STAIRCASE”

topic: Language, Cliche, Young

Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.

topic: Speech, Language, Heavy, Accompany, Pantomime

If I do not speak in a language that can be understood there is little chance for a dialogue.

topic: Littles, Chance, Language

Language is also a place of struggle.

topic: Struggle, Language

I stand and listen to people speaking french in the stores and in the street. It's such a pert, crisp language, elegant as ruffling taffeta.

topic: People, Language, Stores, Speaking French

Finality is not the language of politics.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Politics, Language, Finality, Politicians And Politics

No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Writing, Discovery, Language

All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.

- Benjamin Jowett

topic: Effort, Language, Compromise, Literal

Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.

- Benjamin Lee Whorf

topic: Writing, Defining, Language, Susceptible, Make Yourself Happy

Speech is the best show a man puts on.

- Benjamin Lee Whorf

source: Benjamin Lee Whorf, John Bissell Carroll (1964). “Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf”, p.249, MIT Press

topic: Men, Speech, Language

A change in language can transform our appreciation of the cosmos.

- Benjamin Lee Whorf

topic: Appreciation, Cosmos, Language

We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language.

- Benjamin Lee Whorf

source: "Science and Linguistics" (1946)

topic: Nature, Lines, Language, Native Language, Dissecting

The most meaningless term in the English language is 'I take full responsibility.' When a politician utters those words it means absolutely nothing.

- Bernard Goldberg

source: "Goldberg: The media is slobbering over Hillary Clinton". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. January 25, 2013.

topic: Mean, Responsibility, Language

You can't eat language but it eases thirst.

- Bernard Malamud

topic: Ease, Language, Thirst

I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.

- Bernard Malamud

topic: Flower, Language, Afterthought

We're persecuted in the most civilized languages.

- Bernard Malamud

topic: Language, Civilized

French is a language that makes those who speak it both calm and dynamic.

- Bernard Pivot

topic: Calm, Language, Speak

There is a pride in speaking this language.

- Bernard Pivot

topic: Pride, Talking, Language

Eiffel borrows quite openly from several earlier programming languages and I am sure that if we had found a good language construct in C we would have used it as well.

- Bertrand Meyer

topic: Language, Used, Found, Eiffel

Good temper and moderation are the characteristics of parliamentary language.

- Betty Boothroyd

source: 1995 In The Independent, 9 Feb.

topic: Language, Moderation, Characteristics, Parliamentary

A data structure is just a stupid programming language.

topic: Stupid, Data, Language, Data Structures

Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively.

- Bill Griffith

topic: People, Language

Support for alternate languages will largely depend on the underlying OS.

topic: Support, Language

Because of our kinship in suffering, our channels of contact have always been charged with the language of the heart.

topic: Heart, Suffering, Language, Kinship

Prayers have no boundaries. They can leap miles and continents and be translated instantly into any language.

topic: Prayer, Language, Boundaries, No Boundaries

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

topic: Way, Language, Walks

More good code has been written in languages denounced as "bad'' than in languages proclaimed "wonderful'' - much more.

- Bjarne Stroustrup

topic: Language, Wonderful, Code

Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.

- Bjarne Stroustrup

topic: Language, Should

C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage

- Bjarne Stroustrup

topic: Littles, Garbage, Language

Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.

- Bjarne Stroustrup

source: "C++ 0x - An Overview at University of Waterloo Computer Science Club".

topic: Perfect, Language, Salesman

However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.

- Bjarne Stroustrup

topic: Java, Serious, Language

I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining

- Bjarne Stroustrup

topic: Support, Language, Programming

How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right.

source: Black Hawk, John B. Patterson (1836). “Life of Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak, or Black Hawk: With an account of the late war”, p.97

topic: Native American, Looks, Language, Native Language, Indigenous

French was my first language.

topic: Basketball, Firsts, Language

At every moment where language can't go, that's your mind.

topic: Mind, Language, Moments

They took away our land, our language, and our religion; but they could never harness our tongues...

- Brendan Behan

topic: Land, Tongue, Language

In taking care with language, we take care of ourselves.

- Bret Stephens

topic: Care, Language, Take Care

As we said in the preface to the first edition, C "wears well as one's experience with it grows." With a decade more experience, we still feel that way.

- Brian Kernighan

source: Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis Ritchie (1988). “C Programming Language”, p.13, Prentice Hall

topic: Way, Firsts, Language

People who cannot distinguish between good and bad language, or who regard the distinction as unimportant, are unlikely to think carefully about anything else.

- Brian Reynolds Myers

topic: Thinking, People, Language, Bad Language

Photography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world.

topic: Photography, World, Language

When people speak their own language you get a much better sense of who they are.

- Bruno Tonioli

source: "Me and my travels". Interview with Helen Ochyra, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2008.

topic: People, Language, Speak

We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: President, Needs, Language, Fluent

I'm not trying to stump anybody... it's the beauty of the language that I'm interested in.

topic: Trying, Language, Stumps

And then I went to 'Dawson's Creek,' which is a show that was, for better or for worse, all about the language. It was a word-perfect show, which I'd never had any experience with. And it was really shocking for me. I felt really hemmed in. At the time, it wasn't my favorite working experience.

- Busy Philipps

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Perfect, Language, My Favorite

You can't listen to all that language and filth without it affecting you

- C. Delores Tucker

topic: Hip Hop, Filth, Language

Language exists to communicate whatever it can communicate. Some things it communicates so badly that we never attempt to communicate them by words if any other medium is available.

topic: Language, Communicate, Mediums

Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified.

source: C.D. Wright (2012). “Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil”, p.61, Copper Canyon Press

topic: Expression, Language, Justified

resignation, perhaps the most stifling word in the language.

- Caitlin Thomas

topic: Language, Stifling, Resignation

The language of Mexicans springs from abysmal extremes of power and impotence, domination and resentment.

- Carlos Fuentes

topic: Spring, Resentment, Language

I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.

- Carlos Santana

topic: Long, Language, Speak, Music Speaks, Instrumental Music

There's a melody in everything. And once you find the melody, then you connect immediately with the heart. Because sometimes English or Spanish, Swahili or any language gets in the way. But nothing penetrates the heart faster than the melody.

- Carlos Santana

topic: Heart, Way, Language

Even though language has its richness the relationship between language and the writer is always like a stone and you have to make the stone human.

- Carmen Boullosa

topic: Writing, Stones, Language

Subversive language, however, must be constantly reinvented, because it is continually being co-opted by the powerful.

- Carol P. Christ

topic: Powerful, Language

Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is constantly changing, constantly being renewed.

source: Casey Miller, Kate Swift (2001). “The Handbook of Nonsexist Writing”, p.4, iUniverse

topic: Ideas, Skins, Language, Native Language

Every language reflects the prejudices of the society in which it evolved.

source: Casey Miller, Kate Swift (2001). “The Handbook of Nonsexist Writing”, p.4, iUniverse

topic: Writing, Prejudice, Language

Sometimes, you just have to reassure the ones you love in precise language that you'll always be there. Sometimes words are enough.

source: Cassia Leo (2014). “Black Box”, p.220, Gloss Publishing

topic: Language, Sometimes, Enough

It's Latin, which is an excellent language for mischief-making, which is why governments are so fond of it.

- Catherynne M. Valente

topic: Latin, Government, Language

Grasp the subject, the words will follow.

- Cato the Elder

source: Quoted in Caius Julius Victor, Ars Rhetorica

topic: Language, Subjects, Speaking In Public, Written Language

You must feel what you're singing, not just have a good presentation of the language.

- Cecilia Bartoli

topic: Singing, Language, Feels, Presentation Skills

Language is something you inherit, it's never just you doing the talking, which helps when you're pretending.

- Cees Nooteboom

source: "The Foxes Come at Night by Cees Nooteboom - review" by Alberto Manguel, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2011.

topic: Talking, Helping, Language

To speak another language is to have another soul

topic: Soul, Language, Speak

To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.

- Charles Baudelaire

topic: Practice, Sorcery, Language, Baudelaire

The formation of different languages and of distinct species and the proofs that both have been developed through a gradual process, are curiously parallel.

- Charles Darwin

topic: Different, Evolution, Language

A language, like a species, when extinct, never ... reappears.

- Charles Darwin

topic: Language, Species

It's kind of pathetic actually that we are all sitting here talking about Forth. It is not the wave of the future. It's never been the wave of the future. It's not within our power to make it the wave of the future.

- Charles H. Moore

topic: Talking, Sitting, Language

But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.

source: Charles Ives, Stephen Drury (2012). “Piano sonata no. 2: "Concord" : with the Essays before a sonata”, p.34, Courier Corporation

topic: Men, May, Language, Extravagant

Jazz is the language of the emotions.

- Charles Mingus

topic: Jazz, Emotion, Language, Jazz Music

My language is the sum total of myself.

- Charles Sanders Peirce

source: Charles Sanders Peirce, Nathan Houser, Christian J.W. J. W. Kloesel (1992). “The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893)”, p.54, Indiana University Press

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