Quotes About Language

Well, that was well before awesome. People who say awesome now wouldn't be born for another thirty years. What's it about, Bern? Colonies on Alpha Centauri? Space ships shooting at each other with lasers?

Words, the acid-bath of words.

But there are more than five sexes and only demotic Greek seems to distinguish among them.

The telephone is a modern symbol for communications which never take place

Words are the mirrors of our discontents merely; they contain all the huge unhatched eggs of the world's sorrows.

The great prayer wound its way into my sleepy consciousness like a serpent, coil after shining coil of words—the voice of the muezzin sinking from register to register of gravity—until the whole morning seemed dense with its marvelous healing powers, the intimations of a grace undeserved and unexpected, impregnating that shabby room where Melissa lay, breathing lightly as a gull, rocked upon the oceanic splendours of a language she would never know.

this wonder of an Englishman who spoke indifferent but comprehensible Greek.… Before we parted he drew a

Of course, one must always remember that truth itself is always halved in utterance.

There's a word in Japanese for being sad in the springtime - a whole word for just being sad - about how pretty the flowers are and how soon they're going to die.

It's really sad for me that in the United States the Latino community is losing its culture and language, especially among kids born here - a lot of them can't even speak our language.

One of the reasons I wanted to teach deaf children was because it made me very sad that they spoke so clumsily and that they moved with less grace that I knew was possible of deaf people.

Each language has its own temperament; some languages make a poem more dramatic or sad, and others make it more playful.

I had a vocal coach. It's a sad thing, but I had to hire someone so that I could get my Australian accent back.

Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.

The art of those who govern consists above all in the science of employing words.

Coding is today's language of creativity. All our children deserve a chance to become creators instead consumers of computer science.

The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve.

Words divide, pictures unite.

What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others.

Dontopedalogy is the science of opening your mouth and putting your foot in it, which I've practised for many years.

Mathematics is pure language - the language of science. It is unique among languages in its ability to provide precise expression for every thought or concept that can be formulated in its terms.

Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce.

It is impossible to disassociate language from science...To call forth a concept, a word is needed.

A man of true science... thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.