Quotes and Sayings About Language
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The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.
-- A. E. WaiteSource : A. E. Waite (2012). “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot”, p.2, Courier Corporation
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Music is all about transporting people; speaking a language which languages fail to express.
-- A. R. RahmanSource : Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. May 19, 2014.
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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.
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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.
-- Aaron BelzSource : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.
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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
-- Abbie HoffmanSource : Abbie Hoffman (1968). “Revolution for the hell of it”
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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.
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Expression and communication in the peak–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 -
Language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.
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Speak the language of the person you want to become.
-- Adam BraunSource : Adam Braun (2015). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.93, Simon and Schuster
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Gore speaks to America as if English is its second language; George W. speaks as if English is his second language.
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Perhaps we should keep our monsters about us, lest we become them ourselves.
-- Adam Dunn -
We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.
-- Adam GopnikSource : Adam Gopnik (2000). “Paris to the Moon”, Random House Incorporated
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Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
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There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
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When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It's nourishing; it's rejuvenating.
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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.
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My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
-- Al Pacino -
Act averse to nasty language and partial to fruity tea.
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When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it's funny in any language.
-- Alan Garner -
The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
-- Alan Kay -
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
-- Alan Kay -
The greatest single programming language ever designed
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
-- Alan PerlisSource : "Epigrams on Programming". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), pp. 7-13, pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de. September 1982.
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In English every word can be verbed.
-- Alan PerlisSource : "Epigrams on Programming". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), pp. 7-13, pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de. September 1982.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Well, visual language is another boring discussion about the nature of film.
-- Alan RudolphSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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As we read a text in our own language, the text itself becomes a barrier.
-- Alberto Manguel