Quotes:Language is a wonderful thing. It can be used to express thoughts, to conceal thoughts, but more often, to replace thinking.
View quotes by Kelly FordyceWorks of imagination should be written in very plain
language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
View quotes by Samuel Taylor ColeridgeNothing knits man to man, the Manchester School wisely taught, like the frequent passage from hand to hand of cash (The
Language of Art)
View quotes by Walter SickertEvery major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in moulding life than nationalism or a common
language.
View quotes by Hilaire BellocSaddam Hussein also challenged President Bush to a debate. The Butcher of Baghdad vs. the Butcher of the English
language.
View quotes by Jay LenoIf you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with
language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.
View quotes by Jean BaudrillardSemantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study of
language.
View quotes by Roman JakobsonWhen I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through
languageView quotes by James Earl JonesYour purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful
language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
View quotes by Dale CarnegieI love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our
language. I stay in the game to fight it.
View quotes by Coco ChanelThe limits of my
language mean the limits of my world.
View quotes by Ludwig WittgensteinOur thirty year old belief that there is only one kind of computer is the basis for our belief that there is only one kind of programming
language.
View quotes by John BackusWe call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every
language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
View quotes by Joseph RouxSummer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English
language.
View quotes by Henry JamesOur
language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
View quotes by Paul TillichTo invoke a Kierkegaardesque figure of speech, the beauty of the
language of the Bible can be like a set of dentist's instruments nearly laid out on a table and hanging on a wall, intriguing in their technological complexity and with their stainless steel highly polished--until they set to work on the job for which they were originally designed. Then all of a sudden my reaction changes from 'How shiny and beautiful they all are!' to 'Get that damned thing out of my mouth!'
View quotes by Jaroslav PelikanLanguage... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.
View quotes by Paul Tillich[on understanding] The definition is this: to understand something is to know what it means, to know what its significance is. To understand a sentence is to know what it means, to understand a
language is to know what its words and sentences mean, to understand a phenomenon more generally is to know its significance.
View quotes by Tim CraneOn his own history with mathematics, and connection with John Nash:
'I had a bit of a hiccup in the third year of high school. The school I was at hired a non-English speaking Hungarian who was a professional of some great standing in Eastern Europe. But he hadn't learned the English
language yet. He probably is a great asset to the teaching staff now, but we were his first class. That was when mathematics and I parted ways.
'There's a lot of mathematics in music. It's all in groups of eight, mate, y'know. The one thing that I may have in common with John is that the subject matter I do know, the driving part of my life, my work life, there's a point where structure and scaffolding is left behind and intuition takes over. That's the difference between John and the next 100 mathematicians. He's fully prepared to leave the scaffolding behind and get into the ether of the equation and find the answer quicker. The bane of his existence, however, is finding the proof.'
View quotes by Russell Crowe
View Results: page 1 2 3 4 5
Perform another search
|
|
|
| |
|
