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It's great that in the German language I've sold almost 30 million books. Isn't that amazing?

It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to master a foreign language if you're not brought up with it

It's interesting, editing can be so immersive for me that I've noticed that the authors I edit have a pretty profound effect on how I hear language for a while.

It's just a favorite language to me, that country finger-picking guitar style.

It's kind of pathetic actually that we are all sitting here talking about Forth. It is not the wave of the future. It's never been the wave of the future. It's not within our power to make it the wave of the future.

It's like, symbolic language, the way that people approach dense poetry... it always bugs me, because that approach suggests that it's like a mystery novel, and that if you can put together the clues, you can come up with one singular answer.

It's like learning a language; you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and that has as much to do with your body as it does with vocabulary and grammar.

It's like there are all these languages available, especially in terms of image. Why confine yourself to only English? There's all these languages and possibilities and concepts to speak or communicate with.

It's my language, the language I speak. I've spent a lot more time playing music than talking or writing.

It's nonsense to say that it's not in the bill. The reality is that the bill they will have passed to the Senate will have this language in it.

It's odd, and a little unsettling, to reflect upon the fact that English is the only major language in which "I" is capitalized; in many other languages "You" is capitalized and the "i" is lower case." --

It's perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific. The theory of that genetic component, whatever it turns out to be, is what is called universal grammar.

It's rare that I ever meet a musician who doesn't agree that music is a language. But it's very rare to meet a musician that really treats it like one.

It's still a mystery to me exactly how I learned the language. [But] I was 19 years old and I had very urgent things to tell girls.

It's so rich as a trope - the whole idea of the road and it being in terms of language, being an active experience.

It's the same thing,' I told her. 'What is?' 'Being afraid and being alive.' 'No,' she said slowly, and now it was as if she was speaking a language she knew at first I wouldn't understand, the very words, not to mention the concept, being foreign to me. 'Macy, no. It's not.

It's true that language is in a sense linear but that is as obvious as perceptual space is three-dimensional.

It's usually best not to ask philosophers anything, precisely because they have the habit of what in the Persian language is called sanud: the profitless consideration of unsettling yet inconsequential things.

It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.

It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word.

It was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we'd read about it in a manual, translated from another language, and were doing our best with what we could understand.

It was once argued that 'Starring Sylvester Stallone' were the three scariest words in the English language but until I saw Adam Sandler I'd always thought the three scariest words in the English language were 'starring Dan Aykroyd.'

It was pleasant to talk shop again; to use that elliptical, allusive speech that one uses only with another of one's trade.

It was not through democratic methods that Britain bagged India.

It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.

It works well for me to go ahead and prepare the sermon with a chapter in mind. What that does is to force me to be very thrifty in my language, tighten up my words and not ramble so much. It puts some fiber in the sermon.

It would, of course, be hopeless to attempt to crowd into an international language all those local overtones of meaning which are so dear to the heart of the nationalist.

It would seem as if the very language of our parlors would lose all its nerve and degenerate into palaver wholly, our lives pass at such remoteness from its symbols, and its metaphors and tropes are necessarily so far fetched.

I type a 101 words a minute. But it's in my own language.

I've always been so intrigued by French language and how it completely changes you, because of cultural context, because of humor.

I used to keep a dictionary and work with it and then I realized there are more words that exist in the English language than there are in this dictionary.

I usually just speak in English when I'm on the basketball court. For some reason, my mind never even tried to cross any other language when I'm playing basketball.

I've always felt, even as a songwriter, that the rhythm of speech is in itself a language for me.

I've always had a fondness for language... English. Not that I use it correctly but I like words. I like books and I like poetry.. I like the written word... and the sung word.

I've always loved music and I love the language, which is a huge reason why I'm part of theater.

I've always loved rhyming. I love language.

I've become obsessed with learning other languages in movies, because I was like, since I was like, but I learned how to box so why don't I just learn another language for a movie?

I've always been very tied to language.

I've always had an ear for languages and music so it's something I'm continually working on but it's fun.

I've always said that I learned the English I know through two sources -- Marvel Comics and Finnegans Wake.

I've been in New York only a few days and I have learned only two words of your language: one is Swell, and the other is Lousy. ... 'It's swell to be with you and excuse, please, my lousy English!

I've long believed that having multiple official languages makes it very hard to sustain a united polity.

I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.

I've built my homeland, I've even founded my state - in my language.

I've found that there are only two kinds that are any good: slang that has established itself in the language, and slang that you make up yourself. Everything else is apt to be passe before it gets into print.

I've never had the impulse for someone else to translate me into my own language. My impulse has always been to translate someone else into mine.

I've never said I'm immortal. I do believe in correct language. I'm eternal; I'm not immortal.

I want to go beyond the restrictions of language, religion and caste, and music is the only thing that allows me to do that.

I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.

I wanted to create an album that spoke all the musical languages I loved.