Language Quotes

In this beginner-friendly book, called 'Learn to Program with Minecraft,' you will learn how to do cool things in Minecraft using the Python programming language. No prior programming experience is needed.

~ Mark Frauenfelder

A different language is a different vision of life.

~ Federico Fellini

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

~ Abraham Maslow

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

~ George Carlin

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.

~ Shepard Fairey

Language is a virus from outer space.

~ William S. Burroughs

People often cover their mouths when lying. A hand on the mouth or even a touch of the lips shows you that they are lying because this unconscious body language represents a closing off of communication.

~ Travis Bradberry

The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

~ T. S. Eliot

Loving your language means a command of its vocabulary beyond the level of the everyday.

~ John Mcwhorter

A common language is a first step towards communication across cultural boundaries.

~ Ethan Zuckerman

I understood that synergistic dance between photographer and object - 'muse,' if you will, 'model,' whatever you call us. It's that silent language of communication, like being psychic with each other.

~ Carmen Dell'orefice

One of the most extraordinary and all-encompassing forms of communication is music. It reaches places that all kinds of other things cannot reach. I'll put my cards on the table: I think it is our greatest language.

~ Simon Rattle

We are a unique ape. We have language. Other animals have systems of communication that fall far short of that. They don't have the same ability to communicate complicated conditionals and what-ifs and talk about things that are not present.

~ Richard Dawkins

Before language, cavemen simply grunted, and then they used the club. Communication changed that. It's the mechanism that created civilization and prevents its own destruction.

~ Greg Gutfeld

Throughout the European Middle Ages and Renaissance, Latin was the language of learning and international communication. But in the early modern period, it was gradually displaced by French. By the eighteenth century, all the world - or at least all of Europe - aspired to be Parisian.

~ Michael Dirda

Contractions, 'U' for 'you' and the like are wonderful to make communication brief and efficient - but we wouldn't want all our talk to be only brief and efficient. Taking pauses out of language would be like taking the net away from a tennis game. Where would all the fun go?

~ Pico Iyer

Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.

~ F. Sionil José

'Arrival' talks very little about language and how to precisely dissect a foreign language. It's more a film on intuition and communication by intuition, the language of intuition.

~ Denis Villeneuve

Nonverbal communication forms a social language that is in many ways richer and more fundamental than our words.

~ Leonard Mlodinow

Scientists attach great importance to the human capacity for spoken language. But we also have a parallel track of nonverbal communication, which may reveal more than our carefully chosen words, and sometimes be at odds with them.

~ Leonard Mlodinow

Language cares.

~ Howard Nemerov

Language is an inadequate form of communication. If you've picked up an instrument, it's because you don't feel you are communicating sufficiently.

~ Stephen Stills

Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction.

~ Gregory Bateson

Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem.

~ Daniel Everett

Language is memory and metaphor.

~ Storm Jameson

I am fourth-generation deaf, which means everyone in my immediate family is deaf. So I grew up always having 100 percent accessibility to language and communication, which was wonderful and something so many deaf people don't have.

~ Shoshannah Stern

Sports is like rock 'n' roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international language, and both are all about emotions.

~ Phil Knight

The Internet is not just one thing, it's a collection of things - of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language.

~ Jim Clark

I think that what computers have done is just disastrous to the language.

~ Gary Paulsen

Without computers, in the 17th century, we could classify the entire animal kingdom... there was this idea of the speciation, right? And now, all a search engine is is essentially the mathematical speciation of ideas - and these things really derive from the way that language is used and the way words relate.

~ Joshua Cohen

I'm working on artificial intelligence. Actually, natural language understanding, which is to get computers to understand the meaning of documents.

~ Ray Kurzweil

We even had a different word for Christmas in my language, Bengali: Baradin, which literally meant 'big day.'

~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

I read everything. I'll read a John Grisham novel, I'll sit and read a whole book of poems by Maya Angelou, or I'll just read some Mary Oliver - this is a book that was given to me for Christmas. No particular genre. And I read in French, and I read in German, and I read in English. I love to see how other people use language.

~ Jessye Norman

Every device there is in language is there to be used, if you will. Poets have got to enjoy themselves sometimes, and the twistings and convolutions of words, the inventions and contrivances, are all part of the joy that is part of the painful, voluntary work.

~ Dylan Thomas

The world's most famous and popular language is music.

~ Psy

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.

~ Octavio Paz

Painting is by nature a luminous language.

~ Robert Delaunay

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.

~ Vincent Van Gogh

All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously incomprehensible to our soul now become the meaningful language of nature.

~ Rudolf Steiner

Some advice: keep the flame of curiosity and wonderment alive, even when studying for boring exams. That is the well from which we scientists draw our nourishment and energy. And also, learn the math. Math is the language of nature, so we have to learn this language.

~ Michio Kaku