Quotes About Language

Fraternize means to behave like a brother. Luke told me that. He said there was no corresponding word that meant to behave like a sister. Sororize, it would have to be, he said.

Everything in his life was temporary, ungrounded. Language itself had lost its solidity; it had become thin, contingent, slippery, a viscid film on which he was sliding around like an eyeball on a plate. An eyeball that could still see, however. That was the trouble.

My only defense is the acquisition of vocabulary.

It has always been my custom to treat words with respect. I can recall the time...when I knew words would be my life's work

In France her tutor had once taught her that to truly fix an image in the mind to fasten it down completely so that it remained forever captive and vivid she should carefully name each aspect of the thing to herself as though she were describing it to a blind person. For ma petite such is the fickleness of the human mind that it soon lets go of whatever it sees if you would keep it you must tack it down with words. She had tried it and found that it worked on flowers rooms faces ceremonies.

A child's questions ought always to be answered honestly and sincerely or else it gets a compress.' 'Complex. I am answering you honestly.' 'Am I a bastard?' Sir Henry was startled, but after a moment's thought said, 'Yes. But that's not a word you should use. Where did you learn it?' 'Shakespeare.

thinking of themselves as members of a "nation," sharing such characteristics as culture, language, history, religion, customs and, on the edge where racial theories flourished, biology.

sternly, and I was stricken myself to realize that Lev Schuster's Yiddish phrases continued to infect my vocabulary.

They were always like two people talking to each other in different languages. But she loved him so much, when he withdrew as he had now done, it was like the warm sun going down and leaving her in chilly twilight dews.

Then why is your mouth all pursed up in that ridiculous way?

Spelling is a way to make words safe, at least for now, until another technology appears to soften attacks launched from the mouth.

Technology is a vocabulary and a language in which you can say many things.

Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.

The real technology -behind all our other technologies- is language. It actually creates the world our consciousness lives in.

He (Branch Rickey) must think I went to the Massachesetts Constitution of Technology.

Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.

There are only two industries that refer to their customers as 'users'.

Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.

I love that you can have the language between the two worlds of technology and fashion, because I don't think that many designers get to do that.

Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches: Banality soothes our nerves.

They gave 12 monkeys a typewriter for a week, and after a week, they only used it as a bathroom.

All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.

The poem is a form of texting... it's the original text. It's a perfecting of a feeling in language - it's a way of saying more with less, just as texting is.

The research carried out in the area of language technology is of utmost importance for the consolidation of Portuguese as a language of global communication in the information society.