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So women are at the beginning of building a language, and not all women are conscious of it.

Speaking more than one language and living in a multicultural family and environment did not seem like anything but what it was: the world I lived in.

Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.

Speak the language of the company you are in; speak it purely, and unlarded with any other.

Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue.

Speech happens to not be his language.

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

Spoken language clearly differentiates Homo sapiens from all other creatures. None but humankind produces a complex spoken language, a medium for communication and a medium for introspective reflection.

Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks.

Stay away from restaurants that have menus in five languages. Thats always a tourist trap. You want to eat where the locals eat.

Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground.

Stories are the reproductive organs of language.

Style, is like a frog: you can dissect the thing, but it somehow dies in the process.

Styles come and go. Good design is a language, not a style.

Style is just an impression. Style itself is hollow. Style, its ok style as long as it is part of a language. Style for style itself is just something very hollow.

Subversive language, however, must be constantly reinvented, because it is continually being co-opted by the powerful.

Such is the advantage of a well constructed language that its simplified notation often becomes the source of profound theories.

Support for alternate languages will largely depend on the underlying OS.

Swaraj means, a state such that we can maintain our separate existence without the presence of the English.

Swearing is industry language. For as long as we're alive it's not going to change. You've got to be boisterous to get results.

Symbolism is the language of the Mysteries. By symbols men have ever sought to communicate to each other those thoughts which transcend the limitations of language.

Symbols are the language of something invisible spoken in the visible world.

Synergy is the only word in our language that means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the separately observed behaviors of any of the system's separate parts or any subassembly of the system's parts.

Systems of morals are only a sign-language of the emotions.

Take Lisp, you know its the most beautiful language in the world -- at least up until Haskell came along.

Talk about painting: there's no point. By conveying a thing through the medium of language, you change it. You construct qualities that can be said, and you leave out the ones that can't be said but are always the most important.

That I want to destroy British imperialism is another matter, but I want to do so by converting those who are associated with it.

Tangible language, which often tells more falsehoods than truths.

Technology is a vocabulary and a language in which you can say many things.

That choice to be ready to reject all other purposes, in favor of the possibilities of language freed from utility, is when the writer becomes a poet.

That is one more reason why I write in English only right now. I prefer writing in the language I hear around me for the people by whom I am surrounded.

That old adage, that "music is a universal language", is really true. Even if all of the lyrics are understood, they seem to connect with it really well and in some ways, more so.

Talk to Allah in your own language with your heart fully present. Allah doesn't need you to rhyme or speak arabic.

Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say,"God, he said exactly what I was thinking." And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.

Tears are the noble language of the eye.

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That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isn't a hiding place. It is a finding place.

That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted.

That's part of that thing of transcending languages. Every person will have their own language.

That's the trouble with languages. They have to be learned.

That's the beauty and the terror of being human beings: We just have these symbolic languages, these dreams, and that's all it ever is.

The act of language or the act of denying language carries its own heaviness.

The 1990s were also when a bunch of the soft-shoe language for race, gender, and class became paramount. Because before that I wasn't thinking about systems or food insecurity or whatever. I was just thinking about not getting picked on for being black and not being hungry.

The abuse of terms has at all times been an evil.

The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.

The absolutist takes himself to read nature in her very own language, but the relativist insists that nature does not speak, and we hear only what we have elected to hear.

The affectation of some late authors to introduce and multiply cant words is the most ruinous corruption in any language.

The ambiguity of poetic language answers to the ambiguity of human life as a whole, and therein lies its unique value. All interpretations of poetic language only interpret what the poetry has already interpreted.

The American idiom has much to offer us that the English language has never heard of

The American language is in a state of flux based upon survival of the unfittest.