Language Quotes - page 2

Language shows a man, speak that I may see thee. (Ben Jonson)
We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language. View quote
Oscar Wilde
When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, Sir, was then the primary object. View quote
Patrick Henry
Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction. View quote
Gregory Bateson
The Germans and I no longer speak the same language. View quote
Marlene Dietrich
When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythms, by effort that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language. View quote
Henri Matisse
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant. View quote
Alan Perlis
Being that can be understood is language. View quote
Hans-Georg Gadamer
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. View quote
Nelson Mandela
About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead. (Edsger W. Dijkstra)
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. View quote
Larry Wall
Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it. View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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. View quote
James Thurber
A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it. View quote
William Hazlitt
The language of friendship is not words but meanings. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself. View quote
Derek Walcott
No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut. View quote
Sam Rayburn
I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence? View quote
George Carlin
Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way. (Thornton Wilder)
Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less. View quote
Robert E. Lee
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. View quote
Gore Vidal
The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable language. View quote
Donald Knuth
By understanding a machine-oriented language, the programmer will tend to use a much more efficient method; it is much closer to reality. View quote
Donald Knuth