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We need language to tell us who we are, how we feel, what we're capable of- to explain the pains and glory of our existence.

We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it. This is the reason why it is so difficult for any but natives to speak a language correctly or idiomatically.

We photographers are poets in the language of symbols.

Were a language ever completely "grammatical" it would be a perfect engine of conceptual expression. Unfortunately, or luckily, no language is tyrannically consistent. All grammars leak.

We're all surrounded by what I call faux language, fake language of commerce, of news media.

We're persecuted in the most civilized languages.

Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own.

We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.

We shall say that we have acquaintance with anything of which we are directly aware, without the intermediary of any process of inference of any knowledge of truths.

We share plates [with Jordan Peele], and we also very often will sit in the corner and kind of speak in our own language.

We should never lower our dignity by lowering our language.

We sit for a few more moments, although there's really nothing left to say. This is new to me, too, an entire conversation that takes place in silence, because the heart has its own language. I will remember what Eric says even though he doesn't say a word. I will tell it to her.

We think in language. We think in words. Language is the landscape of thought.

We think of history as another specialization, like philosophy of language, rather than as something that informs everything we do and think.

We tried to make it more than just a cartoon. It was a cartoon, but we tried to make it more than it was to begin with. And I have 300,000 followers from Turkey, Romania, Poland, and places over there that love Life With Louie, where it was translated into their language. They love it. They are absolutely in love with it. And it just goes to show you: no matter where you go, it's always about family.

We use so much bad language that it forms a barrier between ourselves and the truth.

We've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first.

We who write in English are fortunate to have the richest and most versatile language in the world. Respect it.

We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.

Whatever Language Pakistan understands India should teach in that language

What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words.... Be not the slave of Words.

What else is the power of melody but the power of feeling? Music is the language of feeling; melody is audible feeling - feeling communicating itself.

Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's.

We will go to every part of Tamil Nadu and tell the people that Hindi is coming and that it is like a thunder strike on the heads of Tamil and Dravidian people.... If Hindi were to become the official language of India, Hindi-speaking people will govern us. We will be treated like third rate citizens

What I'm constantly striving for in my prose is clarity. So that, ideally, the writing will become so transparent that the reader will forget that the medium of communication is language.

What I liked about Greece was [...] the impressive force of the language itself, unconfined by dictionaries, spoken in the streets, in cafés and in the country.

What I'm after is that wakeful state through language that stays alive.

What I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion. What I'm finding is that in our increasingly dysfunctional U.S. society, marvelous poetry is being written - out of and amid the dysfunction.

What is a nation without a mother tongue?

What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. The ability to have somebody read something and see it, or for somebody to paint an entire landscape of visual imagery with just sheets of words - that's magical.

What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.

What is it that really makes us, us? It's our collective intelligence. It's our ability to write things down, our language and our consciousness.

What is lofty can be said in any language. What is mean should be said in none.

What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends.

What other creature, besides the lion, the tiger, and the whale, can answer Creation in its own language?

What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.

What narrative journalism does is create a language or open up a space where someone can say, "Oh, this happened to me, too.

What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things.

What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule.

What poetry is asking us to accept can be difficult. Our proximity to our mortality, the fragility of our existence, how close we live in every moment to nameless abysses, and the way language itself is beautifully, tragically, thrillingly insufficient...these are some of the engines that drive the poem. It's natural to want to turn away from these things. But we have to face them, as best we can, at least sometimes. Poetry can help us in that nearly impossible work.

What the eye sees is a synthesis of who you are and all you have learned. This is what I would call the language of photography.

What the elements are to chemistry, what the sounds are to music, are words to language.

What’s the impulse behind art? It’s saying in whatever language is the language of your work, “If I could move you as much as it moved me … if I can move anyone a tenth as much as that moved me, if I can spark the same sense of mystery and awe and surprise as that sparked in me, well that’s why I do what I do.”

When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility.

What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man.

When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies.

When a Japanese manufacturer was asked by his North American counterpart, What is the best language in which to do business?" the man responded: "My customer's language

When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it's funny in any language.

Whenever one reads of the determination of the species, or opens a book on natural science and history, in whatever language, one inevitably comes across the name of Linne.

When a person has an accent, it means he can speak one more language than you