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As a linguist, I don't think of Ada as a big language. Now, English and Japanese, those are big languages. Ada is just a medium-sized language.

As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and is in no better case than a constructed language.

As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements and possibilities of language.

As a poet who has the tools for interpreting the poem differently, you can begin to deconstruct it. But the human being who's like, "I know about conversation, I know about language, I know about hard times," will approach the poem differently.

As a prose writer, I work with language; and those who work with language turn to poetry for renewal.

As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.

A satyagrahi is sometimes bound to use language which is capable of two meanings, provided both the meanings are obvious and necessary and there is no intention to deceive anyone.

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.

A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.

As humans we speak one language.

A silly remark can be made in Latin as well as in Spanish.

As long as there are living human beings, there will be language and stories.

As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man.

As many languages you know, as many times you are a human being

A smattering of English is worse than useless; it is an unnecessary tax on our women.

A speaker is like a lousy auto mechanic: Every time he fixes something in the language, he screws up something else.

As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene.

A standard international language should not only be simple, regular, and logical, but also rich and creative.

As thy days, so shall thy strength be which, in modern language, may be translated as thy thoughts so shall thy life be.

As they say in Discworld, we are trying to unravel the Mighty Infinite using a language which was designed to tell one another where the fresh fruit was.

Astrology is a language. If you understand this language, the sky speaks to you.

As we read a text in our own language, the text itself becomes a barrier.

As we embrace the American dream and the freedoms it represents, we must also ensure that those who wish to enjoy those freedoms become a part of our society and learn to speak our language.

As was his language so was his life.

As writers we need to crack open language.

As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.

A tale should be judicious, clear, succinct; The language plain, and incidents well link'd; Tell not as new what ev'ry body knows; and, new or old, still hasten to a close.

As you know, there are certain languages that lend themselves very easily to vocal use.

At a priesthood meeting... the strongest language in regard to Plural Marriage was used that I ever heard, and among other things it was stated that all men in position who would not observe and fulfill that law should be removed from their places.

At all periods of the [English] language it is difficult to assign a beginning date to most new words and meanings. They tend to slip into the language silently, and are placed in date order only when scholars subsequently get to work.

A text conversation is a short exchange of often grossly truncated language that corresponds to a thought made all the more shallow by the process.

A thing well said will be wit in all languages.

A translator is essentially a reader and we all read differently, except that a translator's reading remains in unchanging print

A translation can never equal the original; it can approach it, and its quality can only be judged as to accuracy by how close it gets.

A thug only understands you when you speak his language

At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language.

Attempting to build a language wall around Quebec is precisely the wrong policy to follow. It will keep out of Quebec exactly what we need to attract by way of talent and capital; it will drive our best - francophones as well as allophones and anglophones, with their talents and capital - to leave Quebec.

At some point in the next century the number of invented languages will probably overtake the number of surviving natural languages.

At the end of the day, flirting is a pretty universal language. Americans are more direct. British people are more indirect about everything

Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it.

At Ungaro, I discovered the flou and the language of Paris.

Average. It was the worst, most disgusting word in the English language. Nothing meaningful or worthwhile ever came from that word.

Bad writing is bad not just because the language is humdrum, but the quality of the observation is so poor.

Bad impulse buys make you feel grim, don't they? It's like having consumer Tourette's. I gravitate towards austere foreign-language film DVDs when insecure.

Baseball is a universal language. Catch the ball, throw the ball, hit the ball.

A wheel that can be turned though nothing else moves with it, is not a part of the mechanism.

A written discourse on any subject is bound to contain much that is fanciful.

Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here.

Beautiful books are always written in a sort of foreign language.

Be careful. I wouldn’t want anything to happen to the worst Spanish student in the history of the language.” I laughed. “No problemo.