Quotes About Language

The pressed oil of words can blaze up into music, into image, into the heart and mind's knowledge. The lit and shadowed places within us can be warmed.

The pen is mightier than the sword as long as it doesn't run out of ink.

Are you one of those people who uses words more for the sound than for the sense of them?

Because there is a word for perfection, people will always imagine that they know it.

The art of communication is the language of leadership.

You can't treat Russia like a guilty schoolboy who has to put a cross on a piece of paper to show he has done his homework. That kind of language is unacceptable.

Words have power. Use the language of leadership versus the vocabulary of a victim.

Today, words. Tomorrow, sticks and stones. And the day after that?

I hang around shepherds because I can't talk to sheep.

Learning Indian mannerisms, how to wear saris, and the language were a challenge.

The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it.

If we taught babies to talk as most skills are taught in school, they would memorize lists of sounds in a predetermined order and practice them alone in a closet.

In learning the art of storytelling by animation, I have discovered that language has an anatomy.

You can never understand one language until you understand at least two.

Learning to write is learning to think. You don't know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing.

I'm learning Cuban. It's like Spanish, but with fewer words for luxury items.

Language is not a genetic gift, it is a social gift. Learning a new language is becoming a member of the club -the community of speakers of that language.

English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.

Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer.

I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect.

Mathematics is a language. We want scientists to be able to read it, speak it, and write it. But we are are not training them to be grammarians.

Everyone has learning difficulties, because learning to speak French or understanding relativity is difficult.

The method (of learning Japanese) recommended by experts is to be born as a Japanese baby and raised by a Japanese family, in Japan. And even then it's not easy.

The soul inside me is the last foreign language I'm learning.