1599 Language Quotes for You to Enjoy

To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing. Edith Piaf

Me People Speak Language Nothing France Understand Same Native Where Successful

APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums. Edsger Dijkstra

Future Generation Mistake Language Past Programming Carried Through Perfection New New Generation Bums Creates Coding Techniques

You have to learn the language of Hamlet. Edward Bond

You Language Learn Hamlet

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language. Edward Gibbon

Language Chaste Obscurity Learned Passages Text Left Decent English

Daydreaming is one of the key sources of poetry - a poem often starts as a daydream that finds its way into language - and walking seems to bring a different sort of alertness, an associative kind of thinking, a drifting state of mind. Edward Hirsch

I don't think poetry will die, but I think that poetry does demand a certain kind of attention to language. It does demand a certain space in order to read it, and I think that space is somewhat threatened by the lack of attention that people have and the amount of time that they give to things. Edward Hirsch

As far as I'm concerned, freedom is the most important thing to creativity. You should feel free to write in whatever way, whatever language, feels comfortable to you. Edward Hirsch

You're trying to write about something that's sacred. You're trying to bring the seriousness of life and death to it, and you're trying to find a way to dramatize it, and you're trying to give language to it, which is inadequate. But it's important to try. Edward Hirsch

Life Death You Try Language Important Way Find Life And Death About Give Something Sacred Write Trying Which Inadequate Seriousness Bring

It would, of course, be hopeless to attempt to crowd into an international language all those local overtones of meaning which are so dear to the heart of the nationalist. Edward Sapir

Heart Language Hopeless Local Those Would Crowd Attempt Course Dear Nationalist Which Meaning International International Language

As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and is in no better case than a constructed language. Edward Sapir

The spirit of logical analysis should in practice blend with the practical pressure for the adoption of some form of international language, but it should not allow itself to be stampeded by it. Edward Sapir

Logical Language Pressure Practice Analysis Some Spirit Adoption Allow Blend Practical Itself Form Should International International Language

Both French and Latin are involved with nationalistic and religious implications which could not be entirely shaken off, and so, while they seemed for a long time to have solved the international language problem up to a certain point, they did not really do so in spirit. Edward Sapir

Time Problem Language Long Long Time Latin Religious Solved Spirit Seemed Entirely Shaken Both Point Could Implications Involved French Off Up Did Nationalistic Which While Really Certain Certain Point International International Language

English, once accepted as an international language, is no more secure than French has proved to be as the one and only accepted language of diplomacy or as Latin has proved to be as the international language of science. Edward Sapir

Science Language Diplomacy Once Latin Secure More Only French Accepted Proved Than English International International Language

The psychology of a language which, in one way or another, is imposed upon one because of factors beyond one's control, is very different from the psychology of a language which one accepts of one's free will. Edward Sapir

Language Will Free Free Will Control Way One-Way Factors Beyond Another Because Accepts Imposed Very Different Psychology Which

My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the words I play with has to expose their true meaning against their will so to speak. Elfriede Jelinek

Music Me Training Words Speak Language Will Example Musical Kind Composition True For Example True Meaning Sound Led Process Which Against Meaning Then Expose Play

My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language. Elfriede Jelinek

Language Made Long Similar Prose Up Which Working Plays Monologues

Chemical compounds of carbon can exist in an infinite variety of compositions, forms and sizes. The naturally occurring organic substances are the basis of all life on Earth, and their science at the molecular level defines a fundamental language of that life. Elias James Corey

Language failed me very often, but then, the substitute for me was silence, but not violence. Elie Wiesel

Me Silence Language Failed Very Often Substitute Then Violence

I realized over the years if I'm writing about humor, irony, satire, I much prefer to do that in English. And if there is sorrow, melancholy, longing, I much prefer to do that in Turkish. Each language has its own strength to me, and I feel connected and attached to both Turkish and English. I dream in more than one language. Elif Safak

Strength Me Satire Writing Language Humor Longing Own Melancholy Dream About More Attached Both Feel Over Sorrow Years Than Irony Prefer Turkish Realized Much English Connected Each

English, for me, is an acquired language. I started with English at the age of 10. At the time, it was my third language. Elif Safak

Time Me Age Language Acquired English Started Third

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