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This is the power of images, the ambiguity. You are never completely sure of anything. With written language, it's more concrete. You have to establish some facts, but in movies, you see things happening, and the exact meaning behind the images is more ambiguous.

This is what language does: organize the world into manageable, and in some sense artificial, units that can then be inhabited and manipulated.

This organization of functional discourse is of vital importance; it serves as a vehicle of coordination and subordination. The unified, functional language is an irreconcilably anti-critical and anti-dialectical language. In it, operational and behavioral rationality absorbs the transcendent, negative, oppositional elements of Reason.

This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses.

This unique strategy that the advanced primates created, the strategy of using language to bind time, is what the process we call 'civilization' has been all about.

This word "LOVE" - discredited, "clicheed" - can be restored and love, the instinct, the impulse to care for somebody in the hope that somebody will care for you - plus our language, the language, a language - is about all we have. With everything else going on, this is what makes us, what keeps us human.

Those who become hyperpolyglots are those who meet two criteria. One, they are exposed to language material. Two, they undertake learning languages as a mission as well as acquiring the personal identity as a language learner.I describe the "neural tribe theory" of hyperpolyglots, arguing that they possess an atypical neurology that is selected by some environments and not others; presumably, there have always been humans walking around with that set of neurological traits or factors, only some of whom actually use those things for languages.

Those who don't understand any language other than the language of force and violence don't respect human dignity. They seek violence because they will be irrelevant without it. We should not go their way.

Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages; they have learned to understand and be understood by all.

Those who violate the rules of a language do not enter new territory; they leave the domain of meaningful discourse. Even facts in these circumstances dissolve, because they are shaped by the language and subjected to its limitations.

those who use the word 'lifestyle' are rarely in possession of either.

Those who read in a second language write and spell better in that language.

Those who use language and have nothing but language to express themselves live in a cage that cannot feel comfortable.

Thought is metaphoric, and proceeds by comparison, and the metaphors of language derive therefrom.

Three languages - the video, the music and the live performance - are awesome to bring together.

Three problems we have: lack of boundaries, insufficient language, incompletions.

Throughout, the work of Tyndale formed the foundation, and more than anyone else he established the rhythms and furnished much of the language which is familiar to us in the Authorised Version.

Time changes all things; there is no reason why language should escape this universal law

To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.

To be an architect is to possess an individual voice speaking a generally understood language of form.

To be honest, I couldn't hold a conversation with anybody in any language other than English - and that's a struggle sometimes!

To change your language you must change your life.

To get rid of the infatuation for English is one of the essentials of Swaraj.

To create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language - That's who I am. That's what I am doing. That's my life goal.

To call the world God is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym.

Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language.

To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cannot convey the scale of a view that is so stunning it is felt.

To get someone to pose, you have to be very good friends and above all speak the language.

To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language.

To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.

To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost -that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization -is to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization.

To say a grid is limiting is to say that language is limiting, or typography is limiting. It is up to us to use these media critically or passively.

To talk about paintings is not only difficult but perhaps pointless too. You can only express in words what words are capable of expressing-- what language can communicate. Painting has nothing to do with that.

To the young, cliches seem freshly minted.

To me the Yiddish language and the conduct of those who spoke it are identical.

To see Stephen Spender fumbling with our rich and delicate language is to experience all the horror of seeing a Sevres vase in the hands of a chimpanzee.

To transform experience and thought into language and narrative - that is beautiful even if that beauty is in brokenness.

To understand is to perceive patterns.

To work our way towards a shared language once again, we must first learn how to discover patterns which are deep, and capable of generating life.

Tout refus du langage est une mort. Any refusal of language is a death.

To understand a sentence means to understand a language. To understand a language means to be master of a technique.

To understand animal thinking you've got to get away from a language.

To write about history or language is supposed to be within the reach of every man. To write about natural science is allowed to be within the reach only of those who have mastered the subjects on which they write.

Translations are a partial and precious documentation of the changes the text suffers.

Translation from one language to another is like viewing a piece of tapestry on the wrong side where though the figures are distinguishable yet there are so many ends and threads that the beauty and exactness of the work is obscured.

Translation is at best an echo.

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

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.

Typography is what language looks like.

Two nations divided by a common language.