2,489 Quotes About Language

I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.

I think that's personality more than anything. (Hideki) Matsui is so different and he's got the language barrier, too.

We are spectacular splendid manifestations of life. We have language. We have affection. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music.

Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.

It is impossible to translate poetry. Can you translate music?

Translations increase the faults of a work and spoil its beauties.

It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.

Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are necessities.

It is part of the business of marketing to muddy the distinction between altruism and cynicism.