Language Quotes

German is of stone, limestone, pudding stone, marble, granite even, and so to a considerable degree is English, whereas French is bronze and gives out a metallic resonance with tones that neither German nor English tolerate.

Music is a great energizer. It’s a language everybody knows.

RHETORIC The art of making life less believable; the calculated use of language, not to alarm but to do full harm to our busy minds and properly dispose our listeners to a pain they have never dreamed of.

A misspelled word is probably an alias for some desperate call for aid, which is bound to fail.

Support for alternate languages will largely depend on the underlying OS.

C++ is the only current language making COBOL look good

The context of what can be known establishes that love and indifference are forms of language, but the wise addition of punctuation allows us to believe that there are other harms – the dash gives the reader the clear signal they are coming.

A change in language can transform our appreciation of the cosmos.

C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage

Good temper and moderation are the characteristics of parliamentary language.