Language Quotes - page 4

APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums. (Edsger W. Dijkstra)
Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naïve or a salesman. View quote
Bjarne Stroustrup
Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language. View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content ... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion. View quote
René Daumal
The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs. View quote
A. E. Waite
The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard! View quote
Manuel Puig
We breathed the air of freedom without knowing the language or any person. View quote
Nelly Sachs
Music happens to be an art form that transcends language. View quote
Herbie Hancock
Naturally, my body language changes given whatever environment I'm in. View quote
Christina Ricci
It's easy to talk to a horse if you understand his language. Horses stay the same from the day they are born until the day they die. They are only changed by the way people treat them. View quote
Laura Hillenbrand
Under the Assads, Kurds were forbidden from learning their own language at school, or even from speaking it in the military. The result is a generation of Syrian Kurds, many now in late middle age, who can't write their own language. (Luke Harding)
We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. View quote
Benjamin Lee Whorf
Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce. View quote
Benoît Mandelbrot
Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education --if it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, if the tortoise were allowed time to creep, and the bird permitted to fly, and the fish to swim, towards the enchanted and divine sources of Helicon --all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers, its beauty, and its coolness. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Under the tropic is our language spoke, And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our yoke. View quote
Edmund Waller
Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions. People everywhere are the same in heart and spirit. No matter what language we speak, what color we are, the form of our politics or the expression of our love and our faith, music proves we are the same. View quote
John Denver
Unsourced variant: The most dangerous phrase in the language is, "We've always done it this way." View quote
Grace Hopper
The mind may be exhausted, but the language of the heart is inexhaustible. View quote
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
There's a very basic human, non-verbal aspect to our need to make music and use it as part of our human expression. It doesn't have to do with body movements, it doesn't have to do with articulation of a language, but with something spiritual. View quote
John Williams
The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words. View quote
George Eliot
Ridicule is the language of the devil. (Thomas Carlyle)
Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine, When he called the flowers, so blue and golden, Stars, that in earth's firmament do shine. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth. View quote
Jacques Lacan
The secret of language is the secret of sympathy and its full charm is possible only to the gentle. View quote
John Ruskin
Music is the soul of language. View quote
Max Heindel