Quotes About Language

how the French can talk. About a stew, about a fly on the parapet, about death, about anything.

Death stands above me, whispering low I know not what into my ear; Of his strange language all I know Is, there is not a word of fear.

The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking.

Poets are interested primarily in death and commas.

What the dead had no speech for, when living, They can tell you, being dead: the communicationOf the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Can't call 'em zombies anymore, " sighed Manny. He seemed almost wistful. "Now we gotta be all politically correct. It's like the Cold Wars never happened.

Its focus wasn't on the written word but how the word was written.

We're very concerned with language and how language works. We're trying to engage people rather than dictate how they should be thinking.

Of all the achievements of the human mind, the birth of the alphabet is the most momentous.

As the saying goes, type is a beautiful group of letters, not a group of beautiful letters.

Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.

Design is just language and the real issue is what you use that language to do.

As we say in Berlin, there are many ways to bake a parrot.

Everything that can be said, can be said clearly.

If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls.

Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture.

Verbalizing design is another act of design.

The world was made before English language, and seemingly upon a different design.

Design is a form of competitive advantage. People tend to think of design as good art, good visual language, which it absolutely has to be. But it's also about the ability to do systems thinking.

When we use a language, we should commit ourselves to knowing it, being able to read it, and writing it idiomatically.

If there is ever a science of programming language design, it will probably consist largely of matching languages to the design methods they support.

While language can surely be used for communication (as can much else), communication probably has no special role in its design or evolution.

No one who set out to design a form of communication would ever end up with anything like English, Mandarin, or any of the more than six thousand languages spoken today.

Singing is as much the language of holy joy as praying is of holy desire.