More scientific language and less diplomatic rhetoric may make this world even better. Votes: 3
Wen JiabaoThe only thing that exists is torment, lyricism, and the magnificence of language. Votes: 1
John C. HawkesTolkien made dwarf sign language because, you know, it's too loud to talk in the mines. Votes: 1
Richard C. ArmitageAll mystics speak the same language, for they come from the same country.
Louis Claude de Saint-MartinTo know a language intimately is to understand the soul of those who speak it.
Margaret Wander BonannoGod gave humans language so they could conceal their thoughts from one another.
Charles Maurice de TalleyrandAction is the language of the body and should harmonize with the spirit within.
Marcus Tullius CiceroGenius does not need a special language; it uses newly whatever tongue it finds.
Edmund Clarence StedmanA man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe best way to learn a language may be an episode of jail in a foreign country.
Nassim Nicholas TalebPhotography is and is not a language; language also is and is not a photography.
William J. MitchellThus, literature, together with language, preserves and protects a nation's soul.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynElegance of language must give way before simplicity in preaching sound doctrine.
Girolamo SavonarolaIf you do not know his language, you will never understand a foreigner's silence.
Stanislaw Jerzy LecIf our language is watered down, then mankind becomes less human, and less free...
Madeleine L'EngleEvery American child should grow up knowing a second language, preferably English.
Mignon McLaughlinThe world was made before English language, and seemingly upon a different design.
Robert Louis StevensonAristocracy and exclusiveness tend to final overthrow, in language as in politics.
William Dwight WhitneyBecause everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks he can talk about language.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheBecause without our language, we have lost ourselves. Who are we without our words?
Melina MarchettaC++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
Bjarne StroustrupPeople acquiring a second language have the best chance for success through reading.
Stephen D. KrashenThe American idiom has much to offer us that the English language has never heard of
William Carlos WilliamsLately, I feel like my life is a book written in a language I don't know how to read.
Brandon SandersonAs our dreams make evident, the psyche's own language is that of image, and not idea.
Christine DowningKnowing that language has done so much, we want to believe that it can do everything.
Denis DonoghueChildren must master the language of things before they master the language of words.
Friedrich FrobelThe noblest deeds are well enough set forth in simple language; emphasis spoils them.
Jean de la BruyereThe word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
Jorge Luis BorgesA riot is the language of the unheard. On blacks in America; address at Birmingham AL
Martin Luther King, Jr.If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one.
Christian Friedrich HebbelI turned to photography because I thought it was the dominant language of our culture.
Sarah CharlesworthIt must be powerful language if you canna make oout what the heel it's goin' on aboot!
Terry PratchettTo break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.
Antonin ArtaudWhen your language is nowhere near Turing-complete, syntactic sugar can be your friend.
Eric S. RaymondLanguage can't solve everything, of course, but it does carry our dreams and our ideas.
Gloria SteinemWe have this enormous connection to the living world that is reflected in our language.
Jean Berko GleasonThis is the gift all writers seek-to write language that incandesces yet does not melt.
Lawrence Clark PowellThere's a reason prophets perform miracles; language lacks the power to describe faith.
Mohsin HamidMaking a movie is universal. Directing a movie is universal; it's a universal language.
Morten TyldumWhoever lives in whichever state should learn the culture of thestate and its language.
Raj ThackerayThe language doesn't mean anything anymore, folks. Truth doesn't mean anything anymore.
Rush LimbaughThe United States is enriched by many cultures, and united by a single common language.
S. I. HayakawaEvery drop of human blood contains a history book written in the language of our genes.
Spencer WellsA language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
Alan PerlisOur language for describing emotions is very crude... that's what music is for, I guess.
Ben GoertzelArt has this long history, predating even language, of expressing nonverbal information.
Betty EdwardsWhat the elements are to chemistry, what the sounds are to music, are words to language.
Ernest KleinNinety-five per cent of my language problems are the fault of that stupid little midget.
Gianfranco ZolaLove is the answer, that everyone seeks...Love is the language, that every heart speaks.
Helen Steiner RiceMaybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling.
Jeffrey EugenidesIf you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
Jerry GarciaLoving your language means a command of its vocabulary beyond the level of the everyday.
John H. McWhorterAnd don't confound the language of the nation With long-tailed words in osity and ation.
John Hookham FrereWe should constantly use the most common, little, easy words which our language affords.
John WesleyI co-founded Duolingo with the mission of bringing free language education to the world.
Luis von AhnThe English language is so elastic that you can find another word to say the same thing.
Mahatma GandhiExtending the language of film sometimes starts with just trying to show one true thing.
Samuel FullerLanguage is a spiritual mansion in which you live and nobody has the right to evict you.
Saul BellowSo mathematical truth prefers simple words since the language of truth is itself simple.
Tycho BraheI am Irish by race but the English have condemned me to talk the language of Shakespeare.
Oscar WildeThe tie of language is perhaps the strongest and the most durable that can unite mankind.
Alexis de TocquevilleI have a major problem with the division that occurs because of the division of language.
Andrew BreitbartPoetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one personâs life.
Eavan BolandGreek is doubtless the most perfect [language] that has been contrived by the art of man.
Edward GibbonWritten forms obscure our view of language. They are not so much a garment as a disguise.
Ferdinand de SaussureThe world speaks of holy things in the only language it knows, which is worldly language.
Frederick BuechnerWe must learn to speak the language women speak when there is no one there to correct us.
Helene CixousArt Education is as important for a realist artist as an Alphabet is to learn a language.
Igor BabailovWhy should I just limit myself to the Urdu language? Why not sing in different languages?
Junaid JamshedWriting" is the Latin of our times. The modern language of the people is video and sound.
Lawrence LessigOmens are the individual language in which God talks to you. My omens are not your omens.
Paulo CoelhoI do that in whatever language of the country I'm in, because the audience appreciate it.
Phil CollinsThe American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth
Rudyard KiplingArt is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
W. Somerset MaughamAnybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.
Bjarne StroustrupThe language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation.
Chinua AchebeThere's a whole language out there, and one's role as a writer is to stumble around in it.
Ciaran CarsonI just want the actors to put their faith in the language. Just let the words do the work.
Conor McPhersonLanguage is mankind's greatest invention " except, of course, that it was never invented.
Guy DeutscherWe all laugh and cough with the same language and will die with the same language as well!
Javad AlizadehIf you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.
Jerry GarciaFor better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love.
Jodi PicoultIf we have listening ears, God speaks to us in our own language, whatever that language be
Mahatma GandhiTo get someone to pose, you have to be very good friends and above all speak the language.
Pierre-Auguste RenoirIf a language is corruptible, then a constitution written in that language is corruptible.
Robert BreaultI bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as ABC, hold up truth to your eyes.
Thomas PaineWe all live in a small unique world, that's why we need at least one sole common language.
William C. BrownThe only universal language I know of that wraps up joy and gratitude and love is laughter.
Brené BrownI think the most annoying language is a tie between all the ones I don't know how to speak.
Demetri MartinUnfortunately, we're using the same language to talk about the language we'retalking about.
Donna Jo NapoliI haven't sat down and memorized the language of Elvish, and anyone who does that is crazy!
Evangeline LillyThe mystic lives and looks; and speaks the disconcerting language of first-hand experience.
Evelyn UnderhillQuiet talk is the language of love. It is the language of peace. It is the language of God.
Gordon B. HinckleyI don't use those terms [like Uncle Tom], and I would never speak in that kind of language.
Jill SteinThe force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFORTRAN was the language of choice for the same reason that three-legged races are popular.
Ken ThompsonSpeak the language of the company you are in; speak it purely, and unlarded with any other.
Lord ChesterfieldFaith is not imparted like secular subjects. It is given through the language of the heart.
Mahatma GandhiWhat is love at first sight but a proof of the powerful but silent language of physiognomy?
Mary C. AmesWas there a little time between the invention of language and the coming of true and false?
Mason CooleyWhen it's done with being graceful and poetic, language is meant to communicate, after all.
Max BarryWhen babies listen, what they're doing is taking statistics on the language that they hear.
Patricia K. KuhlMy feeling is, music is a more eloquent international language than Coca-Cola or McDonalds.
Paul HornWhy would you have a language that is not theoretically exciting? Because it's very useful.
Rob PikeClosure is a neurotic and infantile demand to make upon reality, other people, or language.
Terence McKennaIf the world is made of language, then you can hack it in the sense that you can hack code.
Terence McKennaMusic is all about transporting people; speaking a language which languages fail to express.
A. R. RahmanOne does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language.
Alma GuillermoprietoIf you know only one language, you're a prisoner, stuck in the tyranny of that one language.
Andrew CohenUnencountered Language is the court and spark between words we recognize and those we don't.
Andrew LakeyThoughts there are, not to be translated into any language, and spirits alone can read them.
Arthur HelpsEveryone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.
Duke EllingtonLearn your language well and command it well, and you will have the first component to life.
Edward R. MurrowC++ is a language strongly optimized for liars and people who go by guesswork and ignorance.
Erik NaggumHow astonishing it is that language can almost mean, and frightening that it does not quite.
Jack GilbertRevelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language.
Kenneth Lee PikeHowever great one's gift of language may be, there is always something that one cannot tell.
Mary MacLaneHorses are our silent partners. When we learn their language. This partnership grows strong.
Monty RobertsThere are no simple words. I don't know why I thought I could hide anything behind language.
Patricia A. McKillipThe language with which I make my poems has nothing to do with one spoken here, or anywhere.
Paul CelanLet's get into talking about how autism is similar animal behavior. The thing is I don't think in a language, and animals don't think in a language. It's sensory based thinking, thinking in pictures, thinking in smells, thinking in touches. It's putting these sensory based memories into categories. Votes: 2 Temple Grandin
I can't imagine a mental life, a spiritual existence, not inextricably bound up with language of a formal, mediated nature. Telling stories, choosing an appropriate language with which to tell the story: This seems to me quintessentially human, one of the great adventures of our species. Votes: 3 Joyce Carol Oates
The C language combines all the power of assembly language with all the ease-of-use of assembly language. Votes: 3 Mark Pearce
Consciousness surely does not depend on language. Babies, many animals, and patients robbed of speech by brain damage are not insensate robots; they have reactions like ours that indicate that someone's home. Votes: 2 Steven Pinker
Certain things were deemed to be offensive. It was usually bad language. Votes: 1 Timothy West
We use so much bad language that it forms a barrier between ourselves and the truth. Votes: 1 Tom Robbins
I grew up in a community that was bilingual. I've done it for a while, singing in both languages. Votes: 1 Jon Secada
Shakespeare's language does not require a British accent. It requires a facility with language, and that's all. Votes: 1 Joss Whedon
Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language. Votes: 2 William Bennett
From the earliest moments of life, children begin to learn the fundamentals of language. The most powerful influence for effective language development are the verbal interactions with caregivers. Votes: 1 David Perlmutter
My favorite language for maintainability is Python. It has simple, clean syntax, object encapsulation, good library support, and optional named parameters. Votes: 1 Bram Cohen
"The Dream of a Common Language" by Adrienne Rich. I carried it the entire hike. On my first night, when I felt like I was in too deep, I read the first poem out loud to myself over and over. Votes: 3 Cheryl Strayed
A degree of lying - you know, white lies - seems to be inherent in all languages and all forms of communication. Votes: 3 Matthew Lesko
95% on content and the computer language remains the same. Votes: 3 Steve McConnell
I've never said I'm immortal. I do believe in correct language. I'm eternal; I'm not immortal. Votes: 3 Gough Whitlam
Expression and thought are inextricably linked: crude language permits only crude thinking. Votes: 1 Sarah Churchwell
That you've got to do anything that you feel is precious. I especially believe that about cultures and languages. You've got to be really conscious because time is running out. Votes: 2 Gwenno
Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language. Votes: 2 Marshall McLuhan
I never felt that although we were based in Germany, Puma was and should be considered as a German brand. So we restructured it in a way that positioned us as a global brand, with English being the corporate language, rather than us looking at it from a German perspective. Votes: 1 Jochen Zeitz
The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself. Votes: 5 Derek Walcott
I don't hate language. I have my own language, but I also enjoy the English language. Obviously, you don't read a lot of literature and not care about language. Votes: 1 Twyla Tharp
When I was a kid, it was thought I would do something in the visual arts because I was always drawing, but when we emigrated to Australia from Holland when I was seven, I learnt the English language, and I fell in love with it. Votes: 1 Michel Faber
I am now completing research supported by NSF and NEH that is mapping changes in the English language through all of North America, for both mainstream and minority communities. Votes: 1 William Labov
I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot. Votes: 1 Karl Lagerfeld
There is a slam-dunk case for extending foreign language teaching to children aged five. Just as some people have taken a perverse pride in not understanding mathematics, so we have taken a perverse pride in the fact that we do not speak foreign languages, and we just need to speak louder in English. Votes: 1 Michael Gove
I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative language, which goes against the trend in fiction. Votes: 3 Jesmyn Ward
The government that governs from afar absolutely requires that the truth and the facts reach its knowledge by every possible channel, so that it may weigh and estimate them better, and this need increases when a country like the Philippines is concerned, where the inhabitants speak and complain in a language unknown to the authorities. Votes: 1 Jose Rizal
You cannot rise about your words. A lot of people use foul, pornographic, filthy, language and you SEE, all of those words paint pictures and they reveal the internal thinking of the person on the inside. YOU cannot RISE (forward, onward upward) above your words. Votes: 2 Zig Ziglar
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it. Votes: 4 Christopher Morley
Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here. Votes: 1 Yao Ming
The language that photography has is a formal language. Any photographer is doing something formal. If it's formal, then it must be an aesthetic way to communicate. Votes: 3 Sebastiao Salgado
It is important for knitters to know two things about frogging: that cats are capable of this knitting action, and even seem to enjoy it and seek opportunities to do it; and that foul language is a normal, healthy accompaniment to frogging, whether it is you or the cat that accomplished the task. Votes: 2 Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in clarity, and in restraint. Votes: 5 Lytton Strachey
Go is an attempt to combine the safety and performance of statically typed languages with the convenience and fun of dynamically typed interpretative languages. Votes: 1 Rob Pike
I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965. Votes: 3 Wanda Jackson
I'm keen on making English language movies. English is still the global language and we can't change that. Votes: 3 Bruno Zheng Wu
Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare. Votes: 3 Michael Moriarty
I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically, and most of the time actors can find wonderful clues about character in the rhythm and cadence of the language used. Votes: 1 Laura Linney
I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek. Votes: 1 Anne Rice
From antiquity, Latin died but is still studied in seminaries and elite universities. So did Sanskrit in Asia. iI was replaced by Pali, but even Pali died, too. Linguists say the only ancient language which was resuscitated from the grave was Hebrew of Israel. Votes: 3 F. Sionil Jose
I can speak English. I can speak Hindi. I can understand one or two other languages. Votes: 1 Azim Premji
If human language, with its logic, is the way God has given us to understand the world, then the Torah must be understood in that same language and with that same logic. Votes: 3 David Novak
I sing in Hungarian. I read Hungarian. I do not pretend to speak Hungarian, but I sing in languages that I have studied as languages. And I find that to be central and very, very helpful. I think if you're not really cognizant of what every single word means, I think that might be a little tricky. Votes: 1 Jessye Norman
When I took part in European leaders summits, it was sometimes unpleasant for me to hear Romanian, Polish, Portuguese, and Italian friends speak English, although I admit that on an informal basis, first contacts can be made in this language. Nevertheless, I will defend everywhere the use of the French language. Votes: 1 Francois Hollande
Sports is like rock 'n' roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international language, and both are all about emotions. Votes: 2 Phil Knight
I'm afraid the Internet is filled with people using really very intemperate language. Votes: 1 Richard Dawkins
I do love to interpret songs in American Sign Language. Votes: 1 Sean Berdy
It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish. Votes: 3 Douglas Hyde
I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian. Votes: 1 Michelle Hunziker
This evolution may compromise Java's claim of being simpler than C++, but my guess is that the effort will make Java a better language than it is today. Votes: 1 Bjarne Stroustrup
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious. Votes: 1 Bjarne Stroustrup
The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature. Votes: 1 Emma Bonino
I love Korean food, and it's kind of like home to me. The area that I grew up in outside Chicago, Glenview, is heavily Korean. A lot of my friends growing up were Korean and when I would eat dinner at their houses, their parents wouldn't tell me the names of the dishes because I would butcher the language. Votes: 1 Patrick Stump
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. Votes: 6 Nelson Mandela
I ended up doing four or five plays in college and being an English major with my thesis in language acquisition, which I was planning to study in graduate school. Votes: 3 Carrie Coon
The way I make art - the way a lot of people make art - is as an extension of language and communication, where references are incredibly important. Votes: 4 Shepard Fairey
Half of us are partly German! Half our language and culture, generally, in Anglo-Saxon terms, is German. Votes: 5 Martin Freeman
I've had a fair amount of experience with snakes, and I find them to be pretty honest in terms of how you read their body language and emotions. They'll tell you when they're grumpy. They'll tell you when they're okay. Votes: 3 Dominic Monaghan
Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught. Votes: 5 Leslie Feinberg
Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries. Votes: 1 Gilbert Murray
Mythology and history are my passion. I grew up in a religious family and learnt about our scriptures and philosophies. It's the language I'm comfortable with. Votes: 4 Amish Tripathi
The language of literature is the language of all the world. It is necessary to divest ourselves at once of the notion of diversified vocal and grammatical speech which constitutes the various tongues of the Earth, and conceals the identity of image and logic in the minds of all men. Votes: 2 George Edward Woodberry
The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature. Votes: 1 Emma Bonino
That helped me to keep in touch with myself and to keep in touch with this really quite extraordinary language and literature into which I had pushed a little way. Votes: 4 Robert Fitzgerald
My interest is in how meaning is communicated via language, and I believe the shape, positioning, even the color of the language has an effect on meaning. Votes: 2 Mark Z. Danielewski
All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings, we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is. Votes: 2 Abbas Kiarostami
English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen. Votes: 1 Ernest Istook
Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting. Votes: 4 Francis Schaeffer
Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings. Votes: 2 Carol Ann Duffy
Learning through the arts reinforces critical academic skills in reading, language arts and math and provides students with the skills to creatively solve problems. Votes: 2 Michelle Obama
I don't see it in terms of changing things, but rather using language and music as weapons for fighting a mainstream media which is predominately right wing, and loyal to the political framework and its corporate interests. Votes: 1 Thom Yorke
Music is not supposed to be nationalist. It is supposed to surpass language barriers. It is about generations communicating with each other. Votes: 4 Simon Le Bon
Having a facility for language is an important part of being an author. Votes: 1 Elizabeth George
Naturally, my body language changes given whatever environment I'm in. Votes: 4 Christina Ricci
Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs. Votes: 1 Noam Chomsky
The art of communication is the language of leadership. Votes: 2 James Humes
Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death. Votes: 2 Lee Iacocca
I can't recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open - any discussion on the matter tended to mention languages whose inventors tried to keep tight control, and consequent ill fate. Votes: 3 Dennis Ritchie
And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an intimate medium of television, and that we can do reading and language development for young children without getting into human sexuality. Votes: 5 Margaret Spellings
By bridging the literacy barrier through the use of 3D interactive models we overcome the inherent limitations of text. At the same time, language differences become much less important as text is replaced by interactive, 3D images. Votes: 3 Fay Chung
The Australian way of affirmative action is setting goals and recognising discrimination and lack of opportunity and deciding to take action and setting some goals and targets. I guess I prefer that language to talking about quotas. Votes: 2 Quentin Bryce
Every two weeks, a language dies. The world is diminished when it loses its human sayings, just as when it loses its diversity of plants and beasts. Votes: 2 Eduardo Galeano
The internet is a wild land with its own games, languages and gestures through which we are starting to share common feelings. Votes: 1 Ai Weiwei
The importance of an artist is bringing new signs into a language. Votes: 1 Steve Sabol
I grew up in France, my first language was French, and I tend to gravitate towards French cooking. Votes: 2 Robert Stack
I studied in American school, so yes, I grew up speaking English and Spanish. Obviously, Spanish is my first language. Votes: 2 Eiza Gonzalez
I feel French is very close to Urdu. Both languages are beautiful. Sadly, their beauty is lost in translation. Votes: 1 Amisha Patel
It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning. Votes: 6 Michael Gove
It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them. Votes: 1 Edward Sapir
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. Votes: 1 Mark Twain
The language of faith is crucial because it affords human beings the privilege of intimacy with the ultimate. Votes: 3 Michael Eric Dyson
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought. Votes: 1 Bernard Malamud
The language of light can only be decoded by the heart. Votes: 3 Suzy Kassem
Music is thousands and thousands of years old and I don't think that basic, primitive connection to the language of music ever changes. Votes: 4 Spike Jonze
The language of the Catholic Church - the liturgy, the prayer, the gospels - was in many ways my first poetry. Votes: 1 Alice McDermott
There are times when the power of language is not the power that is needed. Votes: 3 Leon Wieseltier
Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language. Votes: 1 Eric Allin Cornell
Shakespeare language is fantastic, and to be honest, you don't need to do anything to Shakespeare. Votes: 2 Sam Heughan
I found in investigative journalism it is always best, if you have any language skills, not to admit them. Votes: 3 Julian Assange
I studied in American school, so yes, I grew up speaking English and Spanish. Obviously, Spanish is my first language. Votes: 2 Eiza Gonzalez
It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them. Votes: 4 Edward Sapir
My parents were language teachers. They talked about teaching all the time and all their friends were teachers. It was considered a pre-ordained thing that I would go into teaching. Votes: 3 Joanne Harris
There is a slam-dunk case for extending foreign language teaching to children aged five. Just as some people have taken a perverse pride in not understanding mathematics, so we have taken a perverse pride in the fact that we do not speak foreign languages, and we just need to speak louder in English. Votes: 3 Michael Gove
Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence. Votes: 2 George Steiner
I'm working on artificial intelligence. Actually, natural language understanding, which is to get computers to understand the meaning of documents. Votes: 3 Ray Kurzweil
In the commerce of language use only coin of gold and silver. Votes: 3 Joseph Joubert
The language of friendship is not words but meanings. Votes: 2 Henry David Thoreau
The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends. Votes: 3 Robert Bly
I wanted to know if the 'Iliad' in the original was as relevant and contemporary as it was in translation. I then started Latin. I had finally found something I enjoyed and was good at: dead languages! Votes: 2 Caroline Lawrence
Every language teaches you something, so learning a language is never wasted, especially if it's different in more than just syntactic trivia. Votes: 4 Brian Kernighan
The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself. Votes: 1 Jeffrey Kluger
In my career, I played for four different teams in a lot of different systems, and it's like learning another language. Votes: 3 Ron Jaworski
After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country. Votes: 3 Hu Shih
It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning. Votes: 7 Michael Gove
I'm not a lawyer, and maybe I should have used more specific legal language. Votes: 3 Sonny Bono
I want to walk the red carpet at the Oscars. I am in awe of the ceremony, and winning an Oscar would be the most magical moment of my life. I want to make that speech and hold that trophy and say, 'This is for you, India.' That's the line I have rehearsed for God knows how long. But that has to be for a Hindi language film. Votes: 1 Karan Johar
Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because they won't get it later on. Votes: 4 Harrison Salisbury
If you learn the language of loss early, I think you seek out others who have experienced the same thing, who speak that same language of loss. Votes: 2 Anderson Cooper
I've never been bored in my life, man. I've never been bored or lonely. Are you kidding? No way! I'm an orchestrator, a musician, a producer. I love everything. I've studied languages from Farsi to Greek to French, Swedish, Russian... How can you get bored? Votes: 1 Quincy Jones
I love language, and I love the failure of language. Votes: 4 Nate Lowman
Loving your language means a command of its vocabulary beyond the level of the everyday. Votes: 1 John McWhorter
I have an impeccable memory, and I can learn dialogues in any language in 20 minutes, including Telugu and Malayalam. Votes: 1 Katrina Kaif
Scientific research and other studies have demonstrated that arts education can enhance American students' math and language skills and improve test scores which in turn increase chances of higher education and good jobs in the future. Votes: 3 Thad Cochran
Lying is the misuse of language. We know that. We need to remember that it works the other way round too. Even with the best intentions, language misused, language used stupidly, carelessly, brutally, language used wrongly, breeds lies, half-truths, confusion. In that sense you can say that grammar is morality. And it is in that sense that I say a writer's first duty is to use language well. Votes: 3 Ursula K. Le Guin
As thy days, so shall thy strength be which, in modern language, may be translated as thy thoughts so shall thy life be. Votes: 3 Emmet Fox
That's so different in Hong Kong when I'm using my own mother language, I can treat the line in one thousand different ways, with many different reactions. Votes: 4 Chow Yun-Fat
I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor. Votes: 1 Max von Sydow
Hebrew in America has a bemusing past. The Puritans, out of scriptural piety, once dreamed of establishing Hebrew as the national language. Votes: 2 Cynthia Ozick
I trade both with the living and the dead, for the enrichment of our native language. Votes: 4 John Dryden
The language marches in step with the executioners. Therefore we must get a new language. Votes: 4 Tomas Transtromer
Nonverbal communication forms a social language that is in many ways richer and more fundamental than our words. Votes: 1 Leonard Mlodinow
When a film is created, it is created in a language, which is not only about words, but also the way that very language encodes our perception of the world, our understanding of it. Votes: 1 Andrzej Wajda
I think the best writers use the language they use every day when they talk to friends. When we talk to each other, we tend to talk in short grabs rather than in long flowing sentences. I think that's not a bad way to write. Votes: 1 Morris Gleitzman
Certain things were deemed to be offensive. It was usually bad language. Votes: 1 Timothy West
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. Votes: 1 James Thurber
If our language, our programs, our creations are not strongly present in the new media, the young generation of our country will be economically and culturally marginalized. Votes: 4 Jacques Chirac
As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the human language is the possibility of lying. Votes: 3 Umberto Eco
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain. Votes: 3 Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I'm very political without being political. I don't know how to speak proper political language. Votes: 4 Taki Theodoracopulos
I've been looking at companies that are on a positive path vs. a negative path and I've come to use the language of sports, winning streaks and losing streaks. Votes: 1 Rosabeth Moss Kanter
There are times when the power of language is not the power that is needed. Votes: 6 Leon Wieseltier
I love the right words. I think economy and precision of language are important. Votes: 3 Chelsea Clinton
While a people preserves its language; it preserves the marks of liberty. Votes: 1 Jose Rizal
I certainly don't walk around my home or being with my family and just using profane language all the time, but on stage, it's a constant. Votes: 3 Andrew Dice Clay
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious. Votes: 1 Bjarne Stroustrup
I'm very political without being political. I don't know how to speak proper political language. Votes: 1 Taki Theodoracopulos
Women are better at reading body language everywhere in the world. As a matter of fact, it's associated with the female hormone estrogen. Women are better at figuring out of tone of voice, reading your face and posture and gesture. Votes: 3 Helen Fisher
The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God. Votes: 3 Charles Stanley
When I took part in European leaders summits, it was sometimes unpleasant for me to hear Romanian, Polish, Portuguese, and Italian friends speak English, although I admit that on an informal basis, first contacts can be made in this language. Nevertheless, I will defend everywhere the use of the French language. Votes: 1 Francois Hollande
I'm interested in Russian language, culture, history... and I lived there, for four years, as a reporter for the Washington Post and have visited many times since. Votes: 3 David Remnick
The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education. Votes: 3 Ken Robinson
The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise? Votes: 8 Hugo Ball
I have always loved the fluidity of language - delighting in dialects, dictionaries, slang and neologisms. Votes: 1 Ben Schott
I hold 'Mi Tierra,' my first Spanish-language album, very close to me because that was all done in my native tongue and won me my first Grammy. Votes: 4 Gloria Estefan
It's fascinating when you're from another place, but you don't speak the language. Votes: 1 Marcus Samuelsson
Not the ones speaking the same language, but the ones sharing the same feeling understand each other. Votes: 5 Rumi
Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive. Votes: 2 Roland Barthes
I think we're still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate. Votes: 8 Jane Goodall
I learnt to sing in Bengali, my mother tongue, then went on to sing in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati and every possible Indian language. Votes: 2 Shreya Ghoshal
There is a slam-dunk case for extending foreign language teaching to children aged five. Just as some people have taken a perverse pride in not understanding mathematics, so we have taken a perverse pride in the fact that we do not speak foreign languages, and we just need to speak louder in English. Votes: 1 Michael Gove
For me, the reputation for teaching language in general, and East European languages most particularly, gave Glasgow University, and by reflection the country, a distinction. Votes: 3 Tom Stoppard
I have an impeccable memory, and I can learn dialogues in any language in 20 minutes, including Telugu and Malayalam. Votes: 1 Katrina Kaif
The poem is a form of texting... it's the original text. It's a perfecting of a feeling in language - it's a way of saying more with less, just as texting is. Votes: 1 Carol Ann Duffy
Our exclusive dependence on rational thought and language has obscured our natural ability to sense the flow of energy. Votes: 3 Ilchi Lee
I like to travel, and I would love to be fluent in at least four languages. Votes: 3 Paul O'Grady
Some scholars argue that although the brain might contain neural subsystems, or modules, specialized for tasks like recognizing faces and understanding language, it also contains a part that constitutes a person, a self: the chief executive of all the subsystems. Votes: 3 Paul Bloom
A warm smile is the universal language of kindness. Votes: 6 William Arthur Ward
I feel French is very close to Urdu. Both languages are beautiful. Sadly, their beauty is lost in translation. Votes: 1 Amisha Patel
We use so much bad language that it forms a barrier between ourselves and the truth. Votes: 1 Tom Robbins
I'm used to shifting languages because my father used to speak to us, to my brother and I, he used to speak in English. He wanted us to be quite fluent in English, especially when he was trying to correct our behavior; he would do that in English. Votes: 1 J. M. G. Le Clezio
I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically, and most of the time actors can find wonderful clues about character in the rhythm and cadence of the language used. Votes: 1 Laura Linney
For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not. Votes: 3 Ian Hamilton Finlay
I'm inspired by playwrights, novelists, poets: The value of language has been a lifelong passion of mine. I enjoy it. I'm good at it. Votes: 3 Mos Def
Playing characters that speak a very violent language was my livelihood. Votes: 3 Greg Bryk
A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages... in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy. Votes: 1 Thomas Reid
Watch how you communicate with a woman. Because you're always communicating, even when you're not talking - with your body language, your facial expressions, your eyes. Votes: 1 Orlando Bloom
I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative. Votes: 1 Irvine Welsh
While I'm grateful for the freedom to express one's self, I've learned there are limits to what language is appropriate and I'm deeply sorry for how these lyrics could be interpreted. Votes: 3 Psy
How to teach again what has been taught correctly it incorrectly 1000 thousand times, throughout the millenniums of mankind's prudent folly? That is the hero's ultimate difficult task. How to render back into light-world language the speech-defying pronouncements of the dark? Many failures attest to the difficulties of this life-affirmative threshold. Votes: 3 Joseph Campbell