Second, we also got a more authentic liturgy of the people of God, in the vernacular language.
Hans Kung

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates

I think it would be cool if you were writing a ransom note on your computer, if the paper clip popped up and said, 'Looks like you're writing a ransom note. Need help? You should use more forceful language, you'll get more money.'
Demetri Martin

The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being.
Martin Heidegger

Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
Martin Heidegger

I thought it was respectful to each country to sing in their language.
Nana Mouskouri

Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.
George Steiner

I'm not any good at foul language or anything like that.
Thora Hird

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.
Christopher Morley

Why does there exist a global American entertainment industry, but there isn't an equivalent coming from France or Italy? This is the case simply because the English language opens the whole world to the American cinema.
Andrzej Wajda

Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past.
Andrzej Wajda

When a film is created, it is created in a language, which is not only about words, but also the way that very language encodes our perception of the world, our understanding of it.
Andrzej Wajda

The Germans and I no longer speak the same language.
Marlene Dietrich

Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that.
John le Carre

I can't recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open - any discussion on the matter tended to mention languages whose inventors tried to keep tight control, and consequent ill fate.
Dennis Ritchie

At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler.
Dennis Ritchie

Language is a social art.
Willard Van Orman Quine

Music is the soul of language.
Max Heindel

We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be "revolutionary" but not transformative.
Adrienne Rich

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.
William Osler