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Jim Jarmusch: Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.

Job Control Language is the worst programming language ever designed anywhere by anybody for any purpose.

Just as surely as every new language mastered opens up a new world, so knowledge of a Beethoven, a Chopin, or a Schumann opens up a new world in spiritual beauty and thought.

Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared.

Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.

Kindness is a language herd by deaf men and felt by blind men.

Knowledge and Experience do not necessarily speak the same language.

Language allows you to implant a thought from your mind directly into someone else's mind, and they can attempt to do the same to you, without either of you having to perform surgery.

Language always preserves a play or figure/ground relation between experience, and perception and its replay in expression.

Language designed to impress builds a gulf. Language to express builds a bridge.

Language disguises thought.

Language etches the grooves through which your thoughts must flow.

Language helps develp life as surely as it reflects life. It is a most important part of our human condition.

Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.

Language is a living thing. It must survive in men's minds and on their tongues if it survives at all.

Language is always ambivalent. Its forms mutate and connect in unexpected ways. It's hard to instrumentalize language. But I think it's better to explore linguistic potentials than to keep on using language that's past its expiration date.

Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.

Language is a nice way to remember things.

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

Language is a signifier - it points to something. But those somethings change sometimes. Where the line comes down is that change is not in the dictionary first, it's not: change the signifier and the signified will go away.

Language is a social event.

Language is a unifying instrument which binds people together. When people speak one language they become as one, they become a society.

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

Language is butchered by the media

Language is double-edged; through words a fuller view of reality emerges, but words can also serve to fragment reality.

Language is in decline. Not only has eloquence departed but simple, direct speech as well, though pomposity and banality have not.

Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and dead.

Language is not neutral. It is not merely a vehicle which carries ideas. It is itself a shaper of ideas.

Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.

Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are.

Language is the archives of history.

Language is the only chimera whose illusory power is endless, the inexhaustibility which keeps life from being impoverished. Let men learn to serve language.

Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast.

Language makes culture, and we make a rotten culture when we abuse words.

Languages are the pedigree of nations.

Language shapes consciousness and from consciousness, our world is shaped.

Language does not make one an elite.

Language is a machine for making falsehoods.

Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.

Language is a weapon, keep it honed!

Language is a window into human nature, but it is also a fistula, an open wound through which we're exposed to an infectious world.

Language is capable of becoming the objective repository of vast accumulations of meaning and experience, which it can then preserve in time and transmit to following generations.

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

language is magical - it's a form of conjuring. If you do it convincingly, readers will follow you.

Language is the best, best toy.

Language is the leading principle which unites or separates the tribes of mankind.

Language is the tool of my trade -and I use them all - all the Englishes I grew up with

Language is what stops the heart exploding.

Language lies outside of society because it is its foundation; but it also lies within society because that is the only place where it exists and the only place where it develops.

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.