Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Perlis

In English every word can be verbed.

Chogyam Trungpa

Language should fulfill your individual existence as a wholesome human being... Language should be more than just getting by.

Antony Sher

I can feel the power of the words doing the work. Must trust language more.

C. S. Lewis

Of course language is not an infallible guide, but it contains, with all its defects, a good deal of stored insight and experience.

Alan Rudolph

Well, visual language is another boring discussion about the nature of film.

Alan Kay

Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.

Charles Sanders Peirce

My language is the sum total of myself.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

God gave humans language so they could conceal their thoughts from one another.

Bernard Malamud

We're persecuted in the most civilized languages.

Casey Stengel

I love signing autographs. I'll sign anything but veal cutlets. My ballpoint slips on veal cutlets.

Bill Bavasi

This does not signal the end for Michael.

Jay Frank

They didn't sign their name, but I wish they did. We'll look into it.

David Gill

They're called signal lights. They are kind of provocative because they are always telling you something.

Wendy Suehrstedt

It's at that time that the big signs will change.

Franz Kafka

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

Tommy Docherty

Personally, I am very, very sorry we have come to this. I suppose it is another sign of the times.

Todd Jones

The signs are there that they can do it. It's going to take a long time for them to get to that Target level.

French Proverb

The sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness.

Binyavanga Wainaina

I love playing with words and texture.

Ricky Gervais

I'm quite squeamish, really. I'm philistine and unsophisticated - not because of my great discerning palate but other reasons. Some are moral grounds, some texture.

Jeff Conine

B-Rob was text messaging me every hour, 'Come on back, buddy.

Dylan Thomas

The best poem is that whose worked-upon unmagical passages come closest, in texture and intensity, to those moments of magical accident.

Thabo Mbeki

I am sure it is in the medical textbooks, there are many things that cause immune deficiency and you will find therefore in the South African HIV and AIDS programme, that it will say that part of what we have got to do is to make sure that our health infrastructure, our health system is able to deal adequately with all of the illnesses that are a consequence of AIDS.

Nick Cave

Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It's a reduction of things.

Mario Batali

Everyone makes pesto in a food processor. But the texture is better with a mortar and pestle, and it's just as fast.

Theophilus London

I hate writing texts to girlfriends because you can't really see emotions in texts. You can get confused on what she says.

Evelyn Ashford

I want to combine a business major with studies in clothing and textiles.

Prince Royce

I think when you translate songs, you lose the real essence and the meaning.

Timothy Simons

If you're going to go to an audition, you don't want to go in trying to force yourself into some archetype that has been thought up by a director and translated by a casting director.

John Roos

In running Wilson Sonsini, it's all people-to-people skills. Those people-to-people skills translate into diplomatic skills.

David Pogue

I'm the know-nothing. I'm curious, I try to be entertaining, I try to translate the techno jargon, but in the end I'm the audience's representative.

Norman Lear

Ratings translate into corporations, corporations that need a profit statement this quarter that's larger than the last.

Antonio Munoz Molina

Many of the books I read, I had to read them in French, English, or Italian, because they hadn't been translated into Spanish.

Robert Fitzgerald

There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know.