Quotes by Language It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living. Charles Caleb Colton nonsenselanguagewriting The formation of different languages and of distinct species and the proofs that both have been developed through a gradual process, are curiously parallel. Charles Darwin differentevolutionlanguage A language, like a species, when extinct, never... reappears. Charles Darwin specieslanguage Language is an art, like brewing or baking.... It certainly is not a true instinct, for every language has to be learnt. Charles Darwin bakinglanguageart Even, she thought, even without the gift of witchsight, there was more beauty to be found in the world than could ever be snared in language or music. And with the sight. Charles de Lint languagesightworld Old Marley was dead as a doornail... The wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile. Charles Dickens marleylanguagebook It's kind of pathetic actually that we are all sitting here talking about Forth. It is not the wave of the future. It's never been the wave of the future. It's not within our power to make it the wave of the future. Charles H. Moore languagesittingtalking But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense. Charles Ives languagemaymen God gave humans language so they could conceal their thoughts from one another. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand languagehumans Jazz is the language of the emotions. Charles Mingus jazzemotionlanguage I started out with machine code and assembly language. Charles Petzold assemblymachineslanguage My language is the sum total of myself. Charles Sanders Peirce language Silence is the only language god speaks. Charles Simic languagesilencespeak XML is not a language in the sense of a programming language any more than sketches on a napkin are a language. Charles Simonyi napkinscomputerlanguage I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely blest -- blest beyond what language can express; because I am my husband's life as fully as he is mine. Charlotte Bronte husbandlanguageearth Profound thought is conveyed in language of very great simplicity and purity. Charlotte Mason simplicitylanguageprofound If language is intimately related to being human, then when we study language we are, to a remarkable degree, studying human nature. Charlton Laird degreeslanguagestudy Grammar is not a set of rules; it is something inherent in the language, and language cannot exist without it. It can be discovered, but not invented. Charlton Laird inherentgrammarlanguage If I were really fluent and born into the English language, I would probably become a greater writer. Chath Piersath fluentbornlanguage When you're reading from a different language that's different from your own, it's not the same as being fluent. Chath Piersath differentlanguagereading«1213141516171819202122»
