Language Quotes (1804 Quotes)

Deployment of personnel from outside the state, who are not familiar with the local language, can create problems and lead to lack of coordination.

Nothing exists except through language.

A thing well said will be wit in all languages.

She mama an appreciation of the language. She taught me a love of words, of how they should be used and how they can fill a creative soul with a passion and lead to a life's work.

My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.

Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects?

In terms of body language, management seemed a little more defensive to us than usual. Moreover, we find the lack of guidance from a company with the scale and savvy of Pfizer worrisome it suggests to us that the company doesn't know itself about the future performance of its own internal operations.

We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.

We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.

Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being because he sometimes speaks. Language is the mark, the sign, not of his fall but of his original innocence. Through the Word we may regain the lost kingdom and recover powers we possessed in the far-distant past.

I think you can really tell a good actor if you can put a camera on them and they can just talk and emote and react and you don't have to keep cutting away from them, because they are the language and the behavior. It's all a tour-de-force performance.

In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.

The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow the order of things.

Before the Fed went ahead and raised by a half-point, it would probably choose to eliminate the measured language.

It's very small, but this kind of consistent information would suggest the same with girls in writing and language. These minor results perpetuate the myths.

Your language is really vivid. It was a lot to take in. What would you do to revise it

Newt Gingrich's job to capture the Congress was to give Republican candidates an edge and a distinction from their Democratic opponent. That required a very high profile, some very strong language.

Ultimately, being a part of a team means competing, working, living and winning and losing together. And in the end, a teammate's nationality, his language, his taste in music or his religion aren't sources of division, but in fact mediums of greater friendship, understanding and success.

Voting is the language of our democracy, ... And, regrettably, when it mattered most on Election Day, real people lost real opportunities to speak truth to power at the ballot box. This must never occur again if we can do anything to stop it.

Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising. The rules which we make up at the beginning seem ordinary and inevitable, but it is impossible to foresee their consequences. These have only been found out by long study, extending over many centuries. Much of our knowledge is due to a comparatively few great mathematicians such as Newton, Euler, Gauss, or Riemann few careers can have been more satisfying than theirs. They have contributed something to human thought even more lasting than great literature, since it is independent of language.

They confront us and deal with us in a very harsh and illegal language, but ultimately they need us more than we need them.

The payment made by a manufacturer to a patentee for the privilege of using the patent process, is usually termed, in commercial language, a rent; and under the same head must be ranked all extraordinary qualities of body and mind.

I was very adept at acquiring languages.

We wanted to give (local Hispanics) a church home away from home. We thought we'd offer something so they can pray in their own language. I understand that pull to pray in your own language.

The idea is that the object has a language unto itself.

We live by trust, in part by hope, in part by inquiry, patiently and humbly pursued. And to the degree that these sensibilities of our creaturehood are observed, the pursuit of intelligibility and understanding in our faith is a creative adventure full of promise in expanding, sensitizing, illumining, and hopefully fulfilling this pilgrimage of existing. Every other mode of seeking to wrest the fire and efficacy of reality, either by way of sanctioning those who presume to believe, or as ground for registering reality's curse upon those who presume not to believe in accordance with the prescribed language of human forms and symbols, is blasphemous, and carries within its own degree of dementia. And this, I submit, is the judgment of reality itself not of any human formulation dependent upon the language of our fallible forms and symbols.

The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-granted by the persons who used it as our language is by ourselves. Nothing strange about it.

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

Immigration must be halted in the short-term so that our dole queues are not added to by, in many cases, unskilled migrants not fluent in the English language.

Unless you have a blue dress from the Gap with stains on it, how are you going to be able to argue any point about sexuality I would perhaps say, in the language of today, that he was bisexual and that he was incidentally homosexual.

People living on some of the islands of the Pacific don't describe much lightning in their language.

With its 24 official languages, India is the most multi-faceted country in the world, and in many regards a paradigm for the integration of different cultures.

If some try to impose their will on the Iranian people through resorting to the language of force and threats with Iran, we will reconsider our entire approach to the nuclear issue,

Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.

On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people.

She tells the teens to watch their non-verbal cues posture, eye contact, body language, dress. Attitude is everything, ... You are communicating every day -- 24 hours a day.

One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name.

There is somewhat of a lack of communication because of the language barrier,

It sounds like a Danielle Steel novel -- it's full of prose, it's full of pretty language, it's full of heart-tugging memories.

Demolition contractors tend not to go out of business. It's very lucrative and you get to be your own boss. And you get to wear flannel shirts and hard hats and spit and use bad language.

He spoke several languages, including Slovak and Italian. They may have used his language skills in intelligence work.

What we really concentrate on is the language that people need materials on in Marshalltown, which is Spanish. We also have a lot of bilingual materials.

I think we are a victim of the fact that (Simon) has only one (client). He's had only one player for the length of his career, and he doesn't have a lot of experience dealing with this type of language.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

And even if their language skills didn't improve, which they all did, they became more confident in their ability to speak the language.

It's not the same alphabet, and not at all the same as a romance language.

In my show today I sing the song a little bit in everybody's language, because talking about the hits, I'm traveling around the world.

Smiles are the language of love.

As somebody who has worked for this language, I think it is good. This is going to help ... by bringing in much-needed competition.

E-mail offers the advantages of speed and efficiency. But the message should match the medium. Phone conversations allow individuals to share ideas and feedback with the benefit of vocal inflections, which reduces the potential for confusion or miscommunication. Meeting in person adds yet another dimension as participants can respond to facial expressions and body language.