Language Quotes (1804 Quotes)

All words, in every language, are metaphors.

The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century and able to read this language. It makes any list meaningless except the list of an illiterate.

A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.

Language was not powerful enough to describe the infant phenomenon.

We assume, to begin with, that the individual is at least as complex in his internal structure as the language is which he speaks - otherwise, how could he speak a language which is complex?

Once upon a time in the land of Shinar, God came down to see the city and the tower. People were united and spoke in one language. Then God confound their language and caused them scattered all over the planet earth. I believe, because of our technology, there will be one computer-based language on earth. Then God will come back again and make us all scattered all over the stars constellation.

Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work.

Regardless of culture or language, they really enjoy the album. And that to me, is the best thing.

The spirit of logical analysis should in practice blend with the practical pressure for the adoption of some form of international language, but it should not allow itself to be stampeded by it.

We are still evaluating the language and have not officially agreed to it at this point. The hearings are proceeding. That really is the important thing.

We breathed the air of freedom without knowing the language or any person.

So when you are faced with a decision on the euro, it is not surprising that many people are confused. They still try to squeeze the euro debate into the old language. But deep down it is a matter of deciding where one's future lies. It is a matter of political will and courage.

One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language.

As we embrace the American dream and the freedoms it represents, we must also ensure that those who wish to enjoy those freedoms become a part of our society and learn to speak our language.

There is blood, there is bad language, there are some scenes that have been tough for actors to play,

You could have an experience with the gift of the Holy Ghost today. You could begin a private prayer with thanks. You could start to count your blessings, and then pause for a moment. If you exercise faith, and with the gift of the Holy Ghost, you will find that memories of other blessings will flood into your mind. If you begin to express gratitude for each of them, your prayer may take a little longer than usual. Remembrance will come. And so will gratitude. You could try the same thing as you write an entry in your book of remembrance. The Holy Ghost has helped with that since the beginning of time. You remember in the record of Moses it says 'And a book of remembrance was kept, in the which was recorded, in the language of Adam, for it was given unto as many as called upon God to write by the spirit of inspiration.' (Moses 65.)

Language expresses people's thinking and it was by a Word that God created the world and preserves it.

This plan does not take away one's native language. It does not take away one's heritage or culture. It is designed to accelerate that child's English proficiency.

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

After Greenspan changed the language in the statement last time, there is some apprehension about what he'll say,

The market was really shaken by the Fed language. You're seeing a move into more defensive names and a move out of economically sensitive issues.

The terms have been agreed to, now he's just taken it to someone outside to have the language approved. We hope to be able to formally introduce him later Friday.

Second, we also got a more authentic liturgy of the people of God, in the vernacular language.

To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.

Life is a language in which certain truths are conveyed to us if we could learn them in some other way, we should not live.

I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor.

The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.

I think both the president and the government understand that nobody will agree to the language of ultimatums.

We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be "revolutionary" but not transformative.

Food Force continues to be a great success all over the world, from the USA to China, kids and teachers love this game. They can learn about world hunger while having fun. It is an opportunity for Italian students and teachers to use this education tool without any language obstacles.

Swearing is industry language. For as long as we're alive it's not going to change. You've got to be boisterous to get results.

The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. Not just in a 'free beer' kind of way, but also in the free speech kind of way.

Yeah, that's something I base my game on, is a lot of communication. Bobby does it very well, being a center back. Facundo is getting better with the (English) language, and he's stepping up as well.

You couldn't have human society without language.

Language was just our way to explain away the wonder and the glory of the world. To deconstruct. To dismiss. People can't deal with how beautiful the world really is. How it can't be explained and understood. We don't live in the real world anymore, we live in a world of symbols.

speaking in unknown languages, showing a disproportionate physical strength beyond one's natural capacity, the repulsion to sacred things, such as crucifix and prayers, and knowledge of events that have happened far away, in terms of times and places.

At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language.

the honest answer has to be that it's great music, but also the fact that it spans the whole range of Beethoven's language. It's the ultimate challenge, one of the ultimate rewards in music, as much for the listener as for the performer.

Nobody's had to do what he's had to do. New team. New country. New language. ... It's tough.

An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.

I thought it was respectful to each country to sing in their language.

What guided Einstein was that, in his mid-twenties, he found the unknown intriguing. He felt compelled to comprehend what might have been intended for our universe by The Old One (as he referred to his notion of God). We are in the position, ... of a little child entering a huge library, whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different languages. The child knows that someone must have written those books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books, a mysterious order, which it does not comprehend but only dimly suspects.

Perhaps of all the creations of man language is the most astonishing.

I wouldn't say that Mac OS X is a make or break product for Apple, but it's close. But it can move Apple into spaces where it's not been, or been strong, before. At MYOB, we look at our job as being translators translating the language of business into the language of accounting. We need to use tools given to us by the authors of operating systems. The Mac side and OS X gives us a tool set that lets us do our jobs as translators better than any other tool set on the planet. It's up to us to use those tools to move up to the next level.

For a large class of cases -- though not for all -- in which we employ the word ''meaning'' it can be defined thus the meaning of a word is its use in the language.

It feels wonderful to be go back to the 1940s and recreate the whole era through my clothes, voice and body language. I am tired of playing the larger-than-life hero.

The only usefulness of a map or a language depends on the similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map-languages.

Unlike a lot of American specialists in the Middle East, who did one Fulbright year and now find their language is rusty, I kept up my Arabic.

We all know the language of need, so we can communicate.