872 quotes found
“Language is the house of the truth of Being.”
“Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.”
“I want a language that speaks the truth.”
“Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.”
“I have no idea what it would be like to be just one thing and speak one language. I feel enormously privileged to travel and be able to mingle and speak to people that, had I only known English, I ...”
“I belong to the Russian language. As to the state, from my point of view, the measure of a writer's patriotism is not oaths from a high platform, but how he writes in the language of the people amo...”
“The things I see now on TV and in movies are so outlandish. Kids doing rude things with pies! And the language that they use! It's being outrageous for the sake of being outrageous. I can't watch i...”
“We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate of matrimony.'”
“CSS is the design language of the web, and it is not as easy to use as it ought to be, and it can be confusing, especially if you are new to it.”
“I'm not trying to stump anybody... it's the beauty of the language that I'm interested in.”
“A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.”
“Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.”
“I don't follow anything blindly. I have to know the entire thing, if I have to get in to it. It might sound funny to you, but it's like using English language. I use an English word only when I kno...”
“The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.”
“Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.”
“To say that such-and-such a circumstance is 'Kafkaesque' is to admit to the denigration of an imagination that has burned a hole in what we take to be modernism - even in what we take to be the ord...”
“The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray ...”
“Finality is not the language of politics.”
“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.”
“Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.”
