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One thing I can say about the French language is that no one in the world loves their language as much as they do.

One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language.

One way to prevent conversation from being boring is to say the wrong thing.

[On Italian:] One may almost call it a language that talks of itself, and always seems more witty than its speakers.

Only in North America is it regarded as a major achievement to speak one language moderately well.

Only one thing remained reachable, close and secure amid all losses: language. Yes, language. In spite of everything, it remained secure against loss.

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.

On the day of the show, I sit down with someone that speaks very good English and someone who speaks the local language very well and work out what I'm going to say.

On this platform of peace, we can create a language to translate ourselves to ourselves and to each other.

Ooo ahe-e, I aya oa a," she said in yawnspeak, a language - not unlike Hawaiian - known for its paucity of consonants.

Our exclusive dependence on rational thought and language has obscured our natural ability to sense the flow of energy.

Our language is the reflection of ourselves.

Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.

Our language, once homely and colloquial, seeks to aggrandize our meanest activities with polysyllabic terms or it retreats from frankness into a stammering verbosity.

Our language for describing emotions is very crude... that's what music is for, I guess.

Our language, one of our most precious natural resources, deserves at least as much protection as our woodlands, streams and whooping cranes.

Our nonviolence vis-а-vis the British Government has been the nonviolence of the weak.

Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is constantly changing, constantly being renewed.

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge. Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words when short are best of all.

Painting is... a richer language than words... Painting operates through signs which are not abstract and incorporeal like words. The signs of painting are much closer to the objects themselves.

Over, over, there is a soft place in my heart for all that is over, no, for the being over, words have been my only loves, not many.

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.

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.

Paradox: how do we know what we have failed to see because we have no language to express it, thus we cannot know that we have failed to see it.

Parallel cinema has not made an effort to communicate in a language the other person understands.

over and over again I am struck by the wordiness of modern poetry, as if language had replaced experience and must be more and more extreme, intricate and in a way divorced from life itself. It seems as if what we all need is a great purification - but how will that come about?

Ownership of thought depends on the thinker not subordinating himself to a 'ruling thought'. This is particularly difficult, argues Stirner, ... for language itself is a network of 'fixed ideas'. Truths emerge only when language is reworked and possessed individually.

Painting is by nature a luminous language.

paraphrasing.."Science is the language of the intellect of society. Art is language of the entire human personality.

Part of language design is perturbing the proposed feature in various directions to see how it might generalize in the future.

Past, present and future are not amenities of language. Time unfolds into the seamsof being. It passes through you, making and shaping.

People are tempted to politicize the fact that I paint black figures, and the complexity of this is an essential part of the work. But my starting point is always the language of painting itself and how that relates to the subject matter.

People are often shy to acknowledge that they are Bengalis. They somehow take pride in saying that they cannot speak or read the language.

People can stand around and share movement with each other, whether it's professional or not. That's how it grows. That's what dance does. It's its own language.

Photography is a universal language, transcending the boundaries of race, politics, and nationality.

people who understand grammar always have a keen sense of the ridiculous.

Personally I crave not for 'independence', which I do not understand, but I long for freedom from the English yoke.

[Phil Wood] was a great artist, and he knew things. He could be mildly conversant in several languages.

Photography is full of symbolism, it's a symbolic language. You have to be able to materialize all your thoughts in one single image.

Physicists only talk to physicists, economists to economists-worse still, nuclear physicists only talk to nuclear physicists and econometricians to econometricians. One wonders sometimes if science will not grind to a stop in an assemblage of walled-in hermits, each mumbling to himself words in a private language that only he can understand.

Playing characters that speak a very violent language was my livelihood.

People who speak the same language can hate one another as easily as can people who speak unrelated languages.

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.

Philosophical problems arise when language goes on holiday

Photography has escalated almost exponentially! It is a language which covers almost every aspect of communication; factual and expressive.

Photography is a language more universal than words.

Pictures rule, but words define, explain, express, direct, and hold together our thoughts and what we know.

Plainly, children learn their language. I don't speak Swahili. And it cannot be that my language is 'an innate property of our brain.' Otherwise I would have been genetically programmed to speak (some variety of) English.

Poems' deep work is a matter of language, but also a matter of life. One part of that work is to draw into our awareness and into language itself the unobvious and the unexpected.

Poetic language is singularly appropriate for recounting the life of the king who is traditionally accepted as the author of the poetic psalms, some of which are included in the narrative.