Language Quotes
Tend to be people who didn’t take S.A.T.s, or first-time voters, or people with English as a second language.
Al FrankenAl Franken The media must be used effectively to reach the masses. You have to find a new language in which to address the people and demonstrate what is possible.
Wole SoyinkaWole Soyinka Giving English to an American is like giving sex to a child.
Adam CooperAdam Cooper The origins of chemistry were ignoble, or at least equivocal: the dens of the alchemists, their abominable hodgepodge of ideas and language, their confessed interest in gold, their Levantine swindles typical of charlatans and magicians; instead.
Primo LeviPrimo Levi No one sleeps in this room without the dream of a common language.
Adrienne RichAdrienne Rich For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge The Kurds know that they won’t achieve their own state by force of arms but through international recognition. And they have certainly heard what the German foreign minister said in connection with the arms deliveries.
Ahmed ChalabiAhmed Chalabi A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
Alan PerlisAlan Perlis Then they begin to see through their language that the problems described there are the same as the problems they are having. They can identify with characters from another language group.
Ngugi wa Thiong'oNgugi wa Thiong'o He could hardly read or write but his heart spoke the language of the good
Primo LeviPrimo Levi There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
Agnes RepplierAgnes Repplier Even with the best intentions, language misused, language used stupidly, carelessly, brutally, language used wrongly, breeds lies, half-truths, confusion. In that sense you can say that grammar is morality. And it is in that sense that I say a writer’s first duty is to use language well.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld Music is the universal language of mankind.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
Alan KayAlan Kay Love is the language of the soul when it is not colored by emotion, ego, or attachment.
Alan FingerAlan Finger