Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head.
Language Quotes (1804 Quotes)
I would refer you to the language of the law, ... It depends on the circumstances.
The language was ill-advised. In the opinion of the deputy chiefs, (the change) was not good policy and they directed that revisions be made.
As the language of the face is universal, so 'tis very comprehensive no laconism can reach it 'Tis the short hand of the mind, and crowds a great deal in a little room
I'm trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through.
Well, visual language is another boring discussion about the nature of film.
No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.
My particular interest for the past couple of years has been to really think deeply about the big impedance mismatch we have between programming languages, C in particular, and the database world, like SQLor, for that matter, the XML world, like XQuery an
I have a requirement for myself in making designations of elements. I need to have full language and I do not want the language to be only space.
I thought that subtitles are boring because they're there generally to serve us with information to make you understand what people are saying in a different language.
Even though we all speak English here in America, you all speak a very different language. So it's really enjoyable for me to work at home. It's more cathartic, I suppose. To work in America or other places is more about curiosity, because I'm dealing with cultures and sensibilities that I don't really know.
So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to make films without words.
Language is the dress of thought every time you talk your mind is on parade.
Hopelessness may be the saddest word in our language. Despair is the enemy of our souls. It can paralyze us, halt our progress, and cause us to lose our way. But hope awakens us like a light shining in the darkness. We can endure all things when our hope is centered in one who will never fail usour Savior, Jesus Christ, who is the light of the world.
Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never saw it, or certainly those who formed his tradition never saw it, in characters on the pages. It was all on the tongue and in the ear.
I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.
It's not that the kids listening don't speak English it's an expression of the diversity we have in Marshalltown. It's healthy for them to see that model from adults. And kids really get a kick out of language anyway. During the elementary years, that's w
In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional grammar; for instance, the study of inscriptions and their language. But not yet in the spirit of linguistics.
To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence. He is struggling against vagueness, against obscurity, against the lure of the decorative adjective, against the encroachment of Latin and Greek, and, above all, against the worn-out phrases and dead metaphors with which the language is cluttered up.
Most Iraqis are really cool people. I picked up some of their language. There are good and bad people everywhere. So many people there lived under fear. They distrust the military because it's scary for them.
You can see it in his body language. You always have to watch body language. This past week, his body language showed he didn't have confidence. (Wednesday) it was different.
There are hundreds of languages in the world but a smile speaks them all.
It's very hard to argue against equality, ... They will have to say, 'Look closely at the language. It's just a first step.'
In fact, the book shows that language is in a rough state of equilibrium some words disappear and some structures are eroded, but new ones are created at the same time, and these do the job just as well as the old ones, ... It is true, of course, that decay is one prominent force in the course of language evolution. But there are also forces of creation and generation operating at the same time.
Chauncey Depew, when he was ninety-two, was asked 'What is the most beautiful word in the language' The elderly lawyer quickly replied 'Home.'
We arranged a meeting in Los Angeles with big name stars, but I had to drop the idea. I wanted to film in the local Soweto dialect that only Soweto youth can speak and believed that shooting in any other language would dilute the impact of the film.
To me art in order to be truly great must, like the beauty of Nature, be universal in its appeal. It must be simple in its presentation and direct in its expression, like the language of Nature.
There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a particular language or style and become real sharks on somebody else's language.
The doctrine, as I understand it, consists in maintaining that the language of daily life, with words used in their ordinary meanings, suffices for philosophy, which has no need of technical terms or of changes in the significance of common terms. I find myself totally unable to accept this view. I object to it 1. Because it is insincere 2. Because it is capable of excusing ignorance of mathematics, physics and neurology in those who have had only a classical education 3. Because it is advanced by some in a tone of unctuous rectitude, as if opposition to it were a sin against democracy 4. Because it makes philosophy trivial 5. Because it makes almost inevitable the perpetuation amongst philosophers of the muddle-headedness they have taken over from common sense.
Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another.
The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.
We were overwhelmed by the response to this. Names came from everywhere. Past presidents, well known movies, names based on the penguins' black and white coloring and names that translated into different languages.
Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of languages.
that a lot of the language he was using about Kim and North Korea would be counterproductive to getting them back to six-party talks.
It's very important to know the language.
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
Most people will come in with symptoms similar to post-traumatic stress disorder. They suffer from depression, maybe panic attacks. They also come in poor, often without a language, not having any kind of support system. They are isolated they have lost their culture, lost their jobs. They cannot work here because they are not legal. They don't know how to find a place here that copies the work they did before in their countries. Most of the longest-lasting and the most damaging effects are psychological. A lot of medical issues can be healed.
No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby so helpless and so ridiculous.
Language achieves soul only when it's applied as a tool, used by those who imbue it with what they have had the courage and honesty to perceive and feel.
The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move their lips no ear perceives any sound. And they themselves soon sink into impotence in the use of language, because of the certainty of not being heard.
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.
Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies.
Creating a pseudo-C or alternatively easy object-oriented language would be a disaster. There is just too much support for Java for Microsoft to entice people away from it,
A young man who is here speaks the Panis language, and in many other respects, is preferable.
In order to translate a sentence from English into French two things are necessary. First, we must understand thoroughly the English sentence. Second, we must be familiar with the forms of expression peculiar to the French language. The situation is very similar when we attempt to express in mathematical symbols a condition proposed in words. First, we must understand thoroughly the condition. Second, we must be familiar with the forms of mathematical expression.
If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
There are some among us who say our neighbor only understands the language of violence, ... It is easy to say 'jihad,' but actual implementation is very complicated, very hard, and too risky.
Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's.
The need is obvious, ... As we start out today to do our job, we start out a little behind the curve because not enough people speak the languages we need. So we're looking for ways to fix that.