Expressive Language Quotes

#1. Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of thought, but by itself nothing.

John Ruskin

#2. In JavaScript, there is a beautiful, elegant, highly expressive language that is buried under a steaming pile of good intentions and blunders.

Douglas Crockford

#3. English has more flexibility. It's a very plastic, very shapeable, very expressive language. In that sense it feels quite natural.

Ha Jin

#4. Greek is a wonderfully rich and expressive language, which makes it one of the harder of the European tongues to learn. The active vocabulary is much bigger than other European languages. The constructions and the different endings are not easy to master, especially if you are an English speaker.

John Mole

#5. English is a curiously expressive language. Womb, room, tomb. It sums up living in three words.

Anthony Burgess

#6. Whenever I have nothing better to do, I roast a chicken.

Jeffrey Steingarten

#7. The creators of the Constitution were not purple-robed scholars, sitting in their ivory towers attempting to put abstract theories into play, but men who had come to realize that their system of government was broken. These men desired desperately to repair it.

C.L. Gammon

#8. As our larynxes descended, we were able to make sounds with our mouths in new and far more expressive ways. Verbal language soon overtook physical gesturing as the primary means of communication for all human beings except Italians. (Earth (The Book), p. 36)

Jon Stewart

#9. The future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#10. I love the English language just like I love all American things. But I confess that I don't feel confident using complex sentences or big words, hence my famous minimally expressive style - all the "gees" and laconic answers to interviewers. Most of all, I have developed listening as an art form.

Andy Warhol

#11. English was such a strange language - expressive in so may way, but so bland in others.

Farahad Zama

#12. Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand
and melting like a snowflake ...

Francis Bacon

#13. Body language, when you know how to read it, can be more expressive than speech. (Mercy)

Patricia Briggs

#14. But these great minds cannot avois doing extraordinary things!

Samuel Richardson

#15. In every culture, in every language, there is expressive play, expressive word play; there's language use to different purposes that we would call poetry.

Edward Hirsch

#16. People often ask me questions that I cannot very well answer in words, and it makes me sad to think they are unable to hear the voice of my silence.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#17. Language changes and moves in a different direction evolving all the time. Where a lot of people see deterioration, I see expressive development

David Crystal

#18. Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.

Larry Wall

#19. To make a programming language powerful, you need to make it expressive. Having

Conrad Barski

#20. Sign is a live, contemporaneous, visual-gestural language and consists of hand shapes, hand positioning, facial expressions, and body movements. Simply put, it is for me the most beautiful, immediate, and expressive of languages, because it incorporates the entire human body.

Myron Uhlberg

#21. There's surprisingly little difference between writing from a male angle and from a female angle, but I feel more restricted in my language when I'm writing as a male character because males tend to sound less emotionally expressive than females.

Anne Tyler

#22. I love the German and the Swiss people for their many fine traits of character. I love their language that is so exacting and yet so expressive.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#23. you must reclaim the ability to abstain because within it is your clarity and self-control.

Ryan Holiday

#24. I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.

John Dewey

#25. The lobbies are always the best-looking place in the hotel-you wish you could bring out a cot and sleep in them. Compared to the lobby, your room always looks like a closet.

Andy Warhol

#26. Though unmusical, German is the most expressive of all languages,

Arthur Conan Doyle

#27. I always have this red nose in my pocket, and if it looks like I'm taking things too seriously, or the person I'm talking to is taking them too seriously, I put the nose on. It doesn't matter what we're doing or talking about, it doesn't matter if we agree or disagree, the nose changes everything.

Bernie Glassman

#28. My life isn't theories and formulae. It's part instinct, part common sense. Logic is as good a word as any, and I've absorbed what logic I have from everything and everyone ... from my mother, from training as a ballet dancer, from Vogue magazine, from the laws of life and health and nature.

Audrey Hepburn