Language Quotes

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited. Alan Kay
Nature Technology Language Machine Computer Shaped Like Exploited Act
Our government should speak a common language with the American people - plain English. Alan Siegel
Government People Speak Language Our American Common Common Language Plain American People Should English
WWE is a PG and a family product. Everybody can watch and enjoy WWE, whereas in the past, the parents were worried about what their kids were watching because of the blood, foul language, etc. Alberto Del Rio
Family Language Parents Past Enjoy Everybody Worried Kids About Because WWE Were Blood Whereas In The Past Etc Product Foul Watch Watching
I consider myself a pretty good conversationalist, but you wind up being downgraded to idiot status when you don't speak the language! Alec Baldwin
Myself Good You Speak Language Wind Idiot Consider Status Pretty Pretty Good Up Being
You have to be open to dreaming. It's a complicated language, but I'm obsessed with it. Alessandro Michele
You Complicated Language Dreaming Open Obsessed
I grew up with a grandmother from another country and having a different language in my house. That gave me an ear for accents. Alex Borstein
Me Language Country Gave Having House Accents Another Up Different Grew Different Language Grandmother Ear
When Nigeria actually gave me the call-up I thought 'oh, it's going to be a challenge, I don't go back there a lot, I don't really speak the language.' I wasn't speaking the language as fluently as I am now, so it was always going to be a challenge, but it was a challenge I decided to take and change nationalities. Alex Iwobi
Me Change Speak Language Challenge Thought Gave Fluently Back Take Always Am Go Lot Going Oh Decided Really Speaking Now Actually Nigeria
As a child, it was really hard because I'd be thrown into a new school and have to make new friends, or I'd sit in class for months without speaking the language, but as I got older, I welcomed the possibility of discovering new cultures and languages. Alexander Dreymon
Class School Language Sit Older Months Possibility Thrown New Welcomed Make Because Without New Friends Got Discovering Cultures Friends Child Really Languages Hard Speaking
My first year in Japan was very tough, just like my first year in the minors. But at least there I had a lot of Dominican people and Latin people I can talk to. If you don't have anybody to talk to, you can get depressed. But if you find someone who talks your language, it's easier. Alfonso Soriano
You People Language Tough First Year Latin Easier Find Someone Had Like Talk Talks Least Lot Very Get Just Anybody Depressed Japan Your Who
Actually, my correspondent's language is better than mine. He can put his sentiment into words. Alfred Hershey
Words Better Language Sentiment Mine Correspondent He Put His Than Actually
Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language. Alfred North Whitehead
Nature Language Human Nature Written None Itself Human Speech
I felt like the Germans were being mean to me at training, but they were actually just trying to help. I learned really quick - which made me a better player. I'm appreciative of the way they treated me. It's just the language and, of course, as an American, I had to learn that. No offense to them; I love them to death, and I love my teammates. Ali Krieger
Love Death Me Training Better Language Made Teammates Appreciative Way Better Player Had Like Learn Learned Course Felt Were Quick Germans Offense Trying American Just Being Which Mean Them Being Mean Really Help Actually Player Treated
All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and be alive to the life in language - on all its levels. Ali Smith
Life Book Language First Final Alive Writer Open Reader Line Page Levels Need
When you fall in love with a book, something especially interesting and exciting is happening because of the way language works on us as human beings. And I love language. Ali Smith
Love You Book Language Fall Way Something Exciting Because Human Human Beings Happening Interesting Us Works Beings
I don't really read as much as I used to. A lot of what I was looking for as an escape I find in writing. And the other thing is that I don't want to get into someone else's language when I'm working. Alice Hoffman
Writing Language Looking Other Else Find Someone Read Lot Escape Get Want Much Really Working Used Thing
The language of the Catholic Church - the liturgy, the prayer, the gospels - was in many ways my first poetry. Alice McDermott
Prayer Language Church First Ways Poetry Catholic Catholic Church Gospels Liturgy Many
I've got to hear the rhythm of the sentences; I want the music of the prose. I want to see ordinary things transformed not by the circumstances in which I see them but by the language with which they're described. That's what I love when I read. Alice McDermott
Love Music Language Circumstances See Prose Read Got Hear Want Ordinary Which Rhythm Transformed Ordinary Things Them Sentences Things
Much of my experience with language was formed in the church, which has an oral tradition. There are lots of repetitions in prayers and song refrains. There's a sense of incantation, that if you call not once and not twice but for a third time, the spirit appears. Alice McDermott
Time You Experience Song Language Church Sense Once Spirit Call Tradition Prayers Lots Repetitions Oral Which Formed Much Appears Twice Third
At eight, I made a commitment to poetry. Until then, I thought I'd be a policeman. But I went a whole night without sleeping, and the next day the world had changed. It needed a different language. Alice Oswald
Day Commitment World Language Thought Made Sleeping Changed Poetry Had Until Policeman Without Eight Different Different Language Then Next Whole Night Needed
I try not to invent; I try simply to translate the weird language of the natural world. And I'm not into absolute ownership of things. Alice Oswald
Natural World Try Language Invent Ownership Absolute Simply Weird Translate Natural World Things
In 'A Royal Affair' I had to learn to act like a queen and learned Danish. It's so much different to act in another language. It's the nuances in the words. Alicia Vikander
Queen Words Language Danish Had Like Learn Learned Another Affair Different Much Act Nuances Royal
We can lie in the language of dress or try to tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent. Alison Lurie
Truth Lie Impossible Try Language Naked Unless Tell Silent Dress Bald
The character in 'Arya' was so close to my real life persona. The director saw me once and felt I was the right guy for the role because my body language was so flamboyant. In real life, too, I am very peppy and full of life. Allu Arjun
Life Character Me Director Language Real Life Too Once Saw Guy Because Felt Am Real Very Close Role Persona Flamboyant Body Body Language Full Right Right Guy
Well it was not exactly a dissertation in logic, at least not the kind of logic you would find in Whitehead and Russell's Principia Mathematica for instance. It looked more like mathematics; no formalized language was used. Alonzo Church
Mathematics You Language Dissertation Kind Would Find Logic Exactly Russell More Instance Like Looked Well Least Used
History is like Santa Claus: a language construction. We have some registers about the existence of Santa and history - the presents under the tree, the archives - but none have really seen them. Alvaro Enrigue
History Construction Language Seen Tree Some About Archives Like None Existence Them Really Santa Santa Claus Presents
Walter Benjamin used to think that languages expand their register thanks to translation, because translation forces ways of using words and structures that were alien to the original speaker of the target language. Alvaro Enrigue
Words Language Alien Thanks Translation Think Ways Structures Forces Because Were Target Expand Register Speaker Used Languages Original Using
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