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Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.

Magic and art tend to share a lot of the same language. They both talk about evocation, invocation, and conjuring.

Magic, then, is not a method, but a language; it is part and parcel of that greater phenomenon, ritual, which is the language of religion. Ritual is a symbolic transformation of experiences that no other medium can adequately express.

Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language.

Make it, not make it? What's the difference? Music is a language, it's a dance of life, and it can be a part of your life without being something that earns.

Make peace with guilt. Guilt is a poisonous illusion. Many languages don't even have a word for guilt.

Making a movie is universal. Directing a movie is universal; it's a universal language.

Malcolm X found the language that communicated across the board, from college professor to floor sweeper, all at the same time, without demeaning the intellect of either.

Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.

Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.

Many a poem is marred by a superfluous verse.

Manufactured meaning has already been implanted in the unconscious through language and subliminal messages. This is why it is not wise to trust or believe our thoughts/words or the meanings. We intuitively know what is true and false and all that is needed to be known in each moment.

Many of the most difficult questions concerning the role of ethnic minorities centers on language.

Many thoughts are so dependent upon the language in which they are clothed that they would lose half their beauty if otherwise expressed.

Many writers today are wanderers. There is not only an unhousedness in language - how to convey, to say nothing of converge - but an unhousedness of place.

Many words are in a state of mutation, the pronunciation being unsettled even in the best society, a result that must often arise where language is as variable and undetermined as the English.

Marriage is a language of love, equality, and inclusion.

Mass communication communicates massively: its language lacks precise articulation and avoids demanding terms; it argues for the kind of behavior in life which will make a "good program": ethic equals showbiz.

Mastery of language affords remarkable power.

Mathematics is a language

Mathematics is not a language, it's an adventure

Mathematics is the language in which the gods talk to people.

Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language.

Mathematics to me is like a language I don’t speak though I admire its literature in translation.

Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos.

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.

Mathematics is the language of size.

Maybe because English is my second language, maybe I just translate mundane clichés from the Welsh language and they sound original in English. I am going through a bit of an obsession with bad puns. I am hoping I'll grow out of it. Maybe it's just a phase.

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.

Maybe then you comprehend, speaking one language only is a prison!

Men command fewer words than they have ideas to express, and language, as Jean Paul said, is a dictionary of faded metaphors.

Mêmewars is electricity in language, eccentricity at its best where 'there's a profusion of presents.' This book makes eye contact with she and with me. It reminds me how being a reader can be exciting.

Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.

Metaphor is embodied in language.

Metaphor is the only possible language available to religion because it alone is honest about Mystery.

Money can be more of a barrier between people than language or race or religion.

Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.

Modesty in dress and language and deportment is a true mark of refinement and a hallmark of a virtuous Latter-day Saint woman.

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English language than any other single factor.

More good code has been written in languages denounced as "bad'' than in languages proclaimed "wonderful'' - much more.

More scientific language and less diplomatic rhetoric may make this world even better.

Most ads are ignored because every customer has a mental filter that evaluates and dismisses both of these languages of Ad-Speak with a single question: What are they not telling me?

Money is a miraculous thing. It is your personal energy reduced to a portable form and endowed with power you yourself do not possess. It can go where you cannot go; speak languages you cannot speak; lift burdens you cannot touch with your fingers; save lives with which you cannot deal directly.

Most Englishmen are convinced that God is an Englishman, probably educated at Eton.

Musicians are not so concerned with language.

Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages.

Most of us grew up speaking a language that encourages us to label, compare, demand, and pronounce judgments rather than to be aware of what we are feeling and needing.

Movement is the universal language of personal freedom.

Music, for centuries and centuries, was used to teach everything. It was used to teach language, mathematics, history. The news was music. Everything traveled by song. It was used to teach ethics. It was used to create conscience, probably more than anything.