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The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second.

The basic agreement between human beings, indeed what makes them human and makes them social, is language.

The bare fact that language consists of sounds which are mutually intelligible is enough of itself to show that its meaning depends upon connection with a shared experience.

The basis of any independent government is a national language, and we can no longer continue aping our former colonizers ... those who feel they cannot do without English can as well pack up and go.

The best armor against everything around you is to be well educated, to work hard, to be twice as good as if you had to be, to do languages and culture better.

The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself.

The best propaganda omits rather than invents

The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a tapestry.

The best translators slip into the glove of a text and then turn it inside out into another language, and the whole thing comes out looking like a brand-new glove again. I'm completely in awe of this skill, since I happen to be both bilingual and a writer, but nevertheless a lousy translator.

The Bible doesn't speak of "women's rights" in the social-political language we're used to hearing today. Still, that doesn't mean the Bible is silent on the subject.

The Bible is God's Word given in man's language

The book of nature is written in the language of mathematics.

The British are weak in numbers, we are weak in spite of our numbers.

The Britisher is the top dog and the Indian the underdog in his own country.

The British power is the overlord without whom Indian princes cannot breathe.

The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much bigger business of plunder.

The business, task or object of the scientific study of languages will if possible be 1) to trace the history of all known languages. Naturally this is possible only to a very limited extent and for very few languages.

The canker has so eaten into the society that in many cases the only meaning of education is a knowledge of English.

The Catholic faith never changes. But the language and mode of manifesting this one faith can change according to peoples, times and places.

The careful choice of words, the scrubbing of language, the calculated images we presented to the external audiences - those were all major parts of my daily life over there. So, some of that is going to seep over into what I showed in the novel and - more importantly - how I showed it.

The censorship of language is the censorship of consciousness.

The choosing among words is made by every user of the language, and not exclusively by professional speakers and writers.

The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.

The clans began to bombard the outer force field with rockets, missiles, nukes, and harsh language.

The classical scholars have kept alive the tradition of the superiority of the ancient languages -- a kaleidoscopic mass of suffixes and prefixes, supposed to represent an infinite shading of meaning. It is a character they share with the Ojibway and the Zulu.

The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor.

The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule.

The chief merit of language is clearness.

The C language combines all the power of assembly language with all the ease-of-use of assembly language.

The cliché is dead poetry. English, being the language of an imaginative race, abounds in clichés, so that English literature is always in danger of being poisoned by its own secretions.

The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

The connection between the language in which we think/program and the problems and solutions we can imagine is very close. For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.

The conquest of learning is achieved through the knowledge of languages.

The Christian faith is mysterious to the core. It is about things and beings that ultimately can't be put into words. Language fails. And if we do definitively put God into words, we have at that very moment made God something God is not.

The dictionary has been in the making for several decades, and the result is well worth the wait. MacLean and those who worked with her have consulted with Iñupiaq speakers from across Alaska's North Slope to compile a comprehensive collection of word stems, along with postbases, grammatical endings, and an array of other valuable material. . . . This dictionary will prove fascinating for anyone interested in the Iñupiat and their language.

The dictionary is, however, only a rough draft.

The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language.

The difference of language, dress, and manners . . . severs and alienates the nations of the globe.

The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French.

The dictionary is based on the hypothesis -- obviously an unproven one -- that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.

The dinner even is only the parable of a dinner, commonly.

The divine communicates to us primarily through the language of the natural world. Not to hear the natural world is not to hear the divine.

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.

The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.

The English language is an arsenal of weapons. If you are going to brandish them without checking to see whether or not they are loaded, you must expect to have them explode in your face from time to time.

The English language is not always the President's friend.

... the English alphabet is pure insanity..., It can hardly spell any word in the language with any degree of certainty.

The English love for privacy is proverbial, and has not been exaggerated. A stranger who strikes up a conversation is looked upon with suspicion - unless he happens to be an American, when his ignorance of good manners is indulged.

The English take everything with an exquisite sense of humour. They are only offended if you tell them that they have no sense of humour.

The English language is so elastic that you can find another word to say the same thing.