Language Quotes (1804 Quotes)



    We chose the languages because we wanted to help people, and the people that needed to be helped were Chinese-speaking person, Farsi-speaking person and Arabic-speaking person, ... In these countries, the censorship was so heavy that you need technical skills to circumvent the censorship and to be able to publish things anonymously.



    English is likely to remain one of the world's most important languages, but the share of the world's population that speaks English as a native language is falling. As of 1995, English was the second most-common tongue in the world, trailing only Chinese. By 2050, Chinese will continue its predominance.


    Notwithstanding his answers and my efforts to glean some hint or realistic expectation from his words and body language, candidly it is not possible to predict or have a solid expectation of what Judge Roberts would do,

    I'm really fascinated and you know I've been wondering about that usage of language, various breathing techniques and why in these practices language is being used in another way.

    China's cinema has been rising for some time; it has more exposure, so my chances of becoming internationally known are better. But the first thing I have to do is learn English. If I can grasp the language, then perhaps I can think about the U.S.





    Well, we're all somebody, of course, in one sense. Of course we're not nobody.''I am not so sure what you think about it, said Mrs. Candy. I think that in your language, who isn't somebody, is nobody.


    If you are to reach masses of people in this world, you must do it by a sign language. Whether your vehicle be commerce, literature, or politics, you can do nothing but raise signals, and make motions to the people.

    It is not difficult to write in Spanish the Spanish language is a gift from the gods which we Spaniards take for granted. I take comfort therefore in the belief that you wished to pay tribute to a glorious language and not to the humble writer who uses it for everything it can express the joy and the wisdom of Mankind, since literature is an art form of all and for all, although written without deference, heeding only the voiceless, anonymous murmur of a given place and time.




    We're making sure the language in the bill doesn't have an adverse impact on the metropolitan CIDs. So far, there's nothing to alarm us in how the bill is proposed, but we're still monitoring.

    The first year was the hardest for us. There weren't any bad surprises. It is just another kind of life, maybe more comfortable than in Russia from one side. But from another side, we didn't have enough money, we didn't know the language and it was the hardest thing for us.

    Public speaking is done in the public tongue, the national or tribal language and the language of our tribe is the men's language. Of course women learn it. We're not dumb. If you can tell Margaret Thatcher from Ronald Reagan, or Indira Gandhi from General Somoza, by anything they say, tell me how. This is a man's world, so it talks a man's language.


    My mom and my dad wanted my brother and I to have a better life, you know, better education, better jobs. It was probably harder, much, much harder, for my parents. When you're a kid, you can learn a language much more easily; I learned English in less than a year.


    I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language.

    We wanted to emphasize his humanity. After all, this was a 9-year-old kid who came to the throne at the most turbulent time that we know about in terms of religion, in terms of philosophy, in terms of art, architecture and language.



    Obstacles are necessary companions to expression, and we know that the positive element in language is not in its obstructiveness. Exclusively viewed from the side of the obstacle, nature appears inimical to the idea of morality. But if that were abs

    The majority opinion, to our mind, does not follow the clear congressional intent, ... I think it misreads the language of the statute, being that under the ruling, even if they stop all RICO violations forever more, they can continue to collect revenue from people they have addicted. It makes no sense. Congress did not intend for the courts to stop future violations but benefit from past behavior.

    When I address those 105 guys, they're going to look at me and my attitude in terms of how I'm approaching this, ... If I'm not upbeat, I'm not positive and I don't have the good body language, then I'm sending a message to the team of 'woe is me.'


    The great minds, the great works transcend all limitations of time, of language, and of race, and the scholar can never feel initiated into the company of the elect until he can approach all of life's problems from the cosmopolitan standpoint.

    It's always better to speak the language of the team. Not only for the direct contact with everyone - sometimes it also helps you to understand the mentality of the people in the team a bit better.



    Presenting both of these plays feels like a search for simplicity and a communal experience involving the actors and the audience. Language contemporary or Shakespearean is important for me. Hamlet is a step on from, say, Lear. It's more anachronistic in places, more eclectic. There's a coherence at work here but one accompanied by a series of small, dramatic explosions.





    Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.

    It was the Koreans' knowledge, not only of the culture, but of the language and the ways of doing business in China, that gave them the upper hand. It wasn't so much the quality of their product as it was the quality of their preparations to make the deals.



    My friend growing up, both of her parents are deaf, so I've always been interested. Through research, children at this age know what they want to say but don't have the language skills to say it yet. The signing bridges that gap and allows them to let their needs be known before they're able to tell us.


    People are unwinding short yen positions ahead of the BOJ meeting. Some market participants are speculating on what kind of the language and economic assessment would come out of the meeting.

    In our daily lives as programmers, we process text strings a lot. So I tried to work hard on text processing, namely the string class and regular expressions. Regular expressions are built into the language and are very tuned up for use.



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