Best language & certain Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“So long as we use a certain language, all questions that we can ask will have to be formulated in it and will thereby confirm the theory of the universe which is implied in the vocabulary and structure of the language.”

Long Use Certain Universe Asks Language Theory Structure Vocabulary Implied

Author:Michael Polanyi

“Fiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children.”

Children Faces Certain Language Fiction Losing My Children

Author:Ben Marcus

“Learn the language that they understand, and when they come upon our doorstep to talk we can talk, and they will get the point. There will be a dialog, there will be some communication, and I am quite certain that then there will be some understanding.”

Certain Language Understanding Communication Doorstep

Author:Malcolm X

“Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money.”

Certain Language Currents Customs Stamps Mistress

Author:Ben Jonson

“A partial Jewish State is not the end, but only the beginning. ... I am certain that we will not be prevented from settling in the other parts of the country, either by mutual agreements with our Arab neighbors or by some other means. . . [If the Arabs refuse] we shall have to speak to them in a different language. But we shall only have another language if we have a state.”

Ifs Wells Mean Ends Country States Certain Speak Language Refuse Neighbor Settling Agreement Mutual Settling In

Author:David Ben-Gurion

“Speech, originally, was the device whereby Man learned, imperfectly, to transmit the thoughts and emotions of his mind. By setting up arbitrary sounds and combinations of sounds to represent certain mental nuances, he developed a method of communication--but one which in its clumsiness and thick-thumbed inadequacy degenerated all the delicacy of the mind into gross and guttural signaling.”

Source: Foundation Trilogy

“You become a serious programmer by going through a stage where you are fully aware of the degree to which you know the specification, meaning both the explicit and the tacit specification of your language and of your problem. "Hey, it works most of the time" is the very antithesis of a serious programmer, and certain languages can only support code like that.”

Knows Problem Certain Language Support Stage Serious Degrees Hey Code Where You Are Programmers Explicit Antithesis Tacit Specifications

Author:Erik Naggum

“Any opinion writer worth his salt would have rejected the quaint notion that certain eternally aggrieved identity groups have exclusive linguistic rights to words in the English language.”

Certain Language Opinion Rights Groups Identity Notion Salt Rejected Exclusive English Language Quaint

Author:Ilana Mercer

“An English tongue, if refined to a certain standard, might perhaps be fixed forever.”

Ifs Might Certain Language Forever Standards Tongue Fixed Refined

Author:Jonathan Swift

“Language conveys a certain power. It is one of the instruments of domination. It is carefully guarded by the superior people because it is one of the means through which they conserve their supremacy.”

People Mean Certain Language Instruments Superiors Domination Supremacy Guarded

Book:Threads Through Time: Writings on History and Autobiography

Source: Threads Through Time: Writings on History and Autobiography

“To lovers of the long and intricate history of language the disuse and final death of certain words is a matter of regret. Yet every age bears witness to the inevitableness of such loss.”

Long Matter Age Certain Language Loss Regret Bears Lovers Finals Witness Intricate

Author:Mary Ellen Chase

“As for language, almost everything goes now. That is not to say that verbal taboos have disappeared, but merely that they have shifted somewhat. In my youth, for example, there were certain words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can say them, but you can't say 'girl'.”

Certain Girl Language Fronts Example Youth Taboo

Author:Tom Lehrer

“Language itself is a mask. It's the first mask in the series of invented selves - they've come right out of language. The way you speak changes you, because when you are speaking, you are representing yourself in a certain way.”

Way Firsts Self Certain Speak Language Series Mask Representing

Author:Vijay Seshadri

“Down through the years certain fads of slang had come and gone, and their vestiges could be found in Janie's and Mabel's conversation, like mastodon bones in a swamp.”

Years Certain Found Language Gone Conversation Speech Bones Through The Years Fads Swamps Slang Janie

Author:Dolores Hitchens

“You know, I think there are certain words like 'illegitimate' that should not be used to describe a person. And certainly, we have come far enough in our technology that our language can evolve, because it has an impact.”

Thinking Knows Should Persons Enough Used Certain Language Technology Impact Evolve

Author:Aimee Mullins

“The radicals...want speech regulated by codes that proscribe certain language. They see free speech as at best a delusion, at worst a threat to the welfare of minorities and women....The most obvious (and cynical) explanation for the switched positions is the switched situations. Protesting students became established professors and administrators. For outsiders, free speech is bread and butter; for insiders, indigestion. To the new academics, unregulated free speech spells trouble.”

“Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.”

Way Giving Writing Certain Language Indian Freshness

Author:Vikas Swarup

“There are some people that aren't into all the words. There are some people who would have you not use certain words. Yeah, there are 400,000 words in the English language, and there are seven of them that you can't say on television. What a ratio that is. 399,993 to seven. They must really be bad. They'd have to be outrageous, to be separated from a group that large. All of you over here, you seven. Bad words. That's what they told us they were, remember? 'That's a bad word.' You know bad words. Bad thoughts. Bad intentions.”

People Use Remember Certain Language Groups Television Yeah Intention Seven English Language Outrageous Ratios Bad Word Bad Thoughts Bad Intentions

Author:George Carlin

“English language is the most universal language in history, way more than the Latin of Julius Caesar. Its the most punderful language because its vocabulary has a certain critical mass that makes a lingo good for punning.”

Way Certain Language Mass Universal Critical Latin Vocabulary English Language Julius Universal Language Critical Mass Punning

Author:Richard Lederer

“In pursuing certain virtues - colorful local effects, personae and personality, juxtaposition, close calls with nonsense, uncertainty, critiques of ordinary language - the current crop of American poets necessarily give up on others.”

Source: Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry

“But O, sick children of the world, Of all the many changing things In dreary dancing past us whirled, To the cracked tune that Chronos sings, Words alone are certain good.”

World Children Past Certain Time Literature Language Sick Dancing Tunes Cracked Dreary Sick Children

Book:When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales

Source: When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales

“I have issued the command, and I'll have anybody who utters but one word of criticism executed by a firing squad, that our war aim does not consist in reaching certain lines, but in the physical destruction of the enemy. Accordingly, I have placed my death's-head formation in readiness, for the present only in the East, with orders to them to send to death mercilessly and without compassion, men, women, and children of Polish derivation and language. Only thus shall we gain the living space which we need. Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?”

“Beauty is undefinable in language. It's something that you see when you see it, or you feel when you feel it, or you hear when you hear it. It usually encompasses all five of the senses. It can't exist without it being a somehow sensorial experience. But, I don't think it's quantifiable. Nothing is really quantifiable. Nothing is certain in love and friendship. We all try to understand these things.”

Thinking Feels Trying Certain Language Five Senses Love And Friendship

Author:Colin Farrell

“Without precise meanings behind words, politicians and elites can obscure reality and condition people to reflexively associate certain words with positive or negative perceptions. In other words, unpleasant facts can be hidden behind purposely meaningless language.”

People Facts Reality Certain Language Behinds Conditions Politician Perception Negative Meaningless Elites Obscure Precise Associates

Author:Ron Paul

“Once a century, all of a certain kind of bamboo flower on the same day. Whether they are in Malaysia or in a greenhouse in Minnesota makes no difference, nor does the age or size of the plant. They flower. Some current of an inner language passes between them, through space and separation, in ways we cannot explain in our language. They are all, somehow, one plant, each with a share of communal knowledge.”

Way Kind Doe Age Certain Language Differences Space Share Century Flower Plant Size Currents Separation Greenhouses Minnesota Malaysia Bamboo

Author:Linda Hogan

“We find that the child who does not yet have language at his command, the child under two and a half, will be able to cooperate with our education if we go easy on the "blocking" techniques, the outright prohibitions, the "no's" and go heavy on "substitution" techniques, that is, the redirection or certain impulses and the offering of substitute satisfactions.”

Ifs Children Doe Two Able Certain Language Easy Half Discipline Satisfaction Heavy Technique Command Block Impulse Substitutes Offering Prohibition Substitution Redirection

Author:Selma Fraiberg

“Have you ever noticed how some rooms exude a certain energy, warmth, and a harmony of spirit? If you have, then you have experienced the language of the home. A language softly spoken, and univerally understood.”

Ifs Home Spirit Certain Energy Language Rooms Design Understood Harmony Warmth Interior Design

Author:Charlotte Moss

“There's nothing good about being certain about things. And I don't think there's any real talent in using language in a manipulative way, with phrases like "tax relief" or "Social Security reform." It's politically clever, but it's also completely disingenuous, and it's not something to aspire to.”

Thinking Way Real Certain Language Social Talent Security Taxes Clever Reform Phrases Relief Aspire Social Security Manipulative Disingenuous Real Talent

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“MY ACT IS 'NOTHING BUT COMEDY. I TALK SOUTHERN BECAUSE I PICKED IT UP WHEN I MOVED TO THE SOUTH. IM NOT TRYING TO MAKE ANY SOCIAL POLITICAL POINT, NOR AM I TRYING TO MAKE FUN OF REDNECKS. I GREW UP A COUNTRY KID AND WILL ALWAYS BE ONE. I GREW UP WITH PEOPLE THAT SAID CERTAIN THINGS FUNNY AND I PREFORM USING THE SAME LANGUAGE BECAUSE I FIND IT HYSTERICLE. THATS IT. ITS A COMEDY SHOW THAT IS FUNNY AND THATS IT.”

People Trying Said Country Shows Kids Political Certain Language Fun Social Comedy Grew Grew Up Moved South Southern Redneck Comedy Shows

Author:Larry the Cable Guy

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