Quotations
'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.'
Russell Crowe
Language is a wonderful thing. It can be used to express thoughts, to conceal thoughts, but more often, to replace thinking.
Kelly Fordyce
Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.
Jimmy Breslin
Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.
Marshall McLuhan
Two million dollars gate at one fight! That's some cabbage in any man's language.
Wilfrid Diamond
Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language
Gail Godwin
Where nature's end of language is declined,
And men talk only to conceal the mind
Edward Young
The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But we cannot speak about atoms in ordinary language
Werner Heisenberg
He attempts to use language which he does not know
Persius
To have another language is to possess a second soul.
Charlemagne
Language has not the power to speak what love indites: The soul lies buried in the ink that writes
John Clare
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
Simone Weil
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
Ezra Pound
But here's old Ken - he's been crass, he's been insensitive and thuggish and brutal in his language - but I don't think actually if you read what he said, although it was extraordinary and rude, I don't think he was actually anti-Semitic.
Boris Johnson
Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms
Penelope Lively
Two nations divided by a common language.
Winston Churchill
French is the language that turns dirt into romance.
Stephen King
The eyes have one language everywhere.
George Herbert
Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.
J G Ballard
Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.
James Baldwin
I do swear a lot, but the advantage is that having played abroad, I can choose a different language from the referee's.
Jurgen Klinsmann
By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
George Carlin
I believe that there is a devil. Those who disagree with me in this may translate my language. All I ask is that they admit the vital truth on which I insist.
Anthony Comstock
On contract clauses: 'There's all this language where you can't jump out of a plane or ride motorcycles. You have to go home and just sit there.'
Ben Affleck
Language is the dress of thought.
Samuel Johnson
The language and concepts contained herein are guaranteed not to cause eternal torment in the place where the guy with the horns and pointed stick conducts his business
Frank Zappa
I wonder what language truck drivers are using,
now that everyone is using theirs?
Beryl Pfizer
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
Martha Graham
[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.
Tim Crane
In language, the ignorant have prescribed laws to the learned. (Maxims, 1830)
Richard Duppa
The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.
J Michael Straczynski
My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
Al Pacino
A common language is the most obvious binding element in any society.
Michael Howard
We 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.
Joseph Roux
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
Gaston Bachelard
Nothing knits man to man, the Manchester School wisely taught, like the frequent passage from hand to hand of cash (The Language of Art)
Walter Sickert
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
Larry Wall
Comedy is something that we can all share, no matter what language we speak or our background, it has the power to unite us all.
Paul Goodman
Our 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.
John Backus
Saddam Hussein also challenged President Bush to a debate. The Butcher of Baghdad vs. the Butcher of the English language.
Jay Leno
No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
Sam Rayburn
Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.
Jean Baudrillard
Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth
Anna Brownell Jameson
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