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If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.

If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.

If you watch a Chinese movie with subtitles, it's just like watching an Arabic movie with Chinese subtitles. That explains why you can't take Chinese language movies and expect them to go abroad.

I get along with all the women singers, but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly language.

I gave up language for a while, and I started painting.And then I only listened to Miles Davis and other instrumental music to see how it felt to be without words.

I got really interested in the language used in blogs written by young girls - a young person's aggression, which is always lacking from the visual world.

I gravitate toward the larger worldview questions such as, Why are we here? What are we supposed to be doing? What does it mean to know another person? To love someone? Of course, those questions are sort of in the background as I'm playing with language in the foreground, but those are the informing questions.

I grew up in France, my first language was French, and I tend to gravitate towards French cooking.

I grew up speaking both languages, and for me that's really important.

I grew up with a very quick temper, and the language of violence is a language that I'm very familiar and comfortable with.

I grew up with the piano. I learned its language as I learned to speak.

I had always suspected language was quite limited in its ability to communicate the intricate mysteries of truth.

I had a quick ear and could pick up languages.

I had no voice to talk with because she was my whole language.

I hardly ever talk- words seem such a waste, and they are none of them true. No one has yet invented a language from my point of view.

I have a cat, so I know that when she digs her very sharp claws into my chest or stomach it's really a sign of affection, but I don't see any reason for programming languages to show affection with pain.

I have a good ear for languages.

I have always maintained that translation is essentially the closest reading one can possibly give a text. The translator cannot ignore "lesser" words, but must consider every jot and tittle.

I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine.

I have a major problem with the division that occurs because of the division of language.

I have a pretty major problem with a language where one of the most common variables has the name $_

I have difficulties with contemporary language. Big difficulties. I counted, you know, something like 160 words have disappeared from the English language because of the use of the word "like." "I'm like, he's like" - not "thought," not "as if .

I have found the game to be, in all factualness, a universal language wherever I traveled at home or abroad.

I have heard the languages of apocalypse, and now I shall embrace the silence.

I have learnt to appreciate the clarity of English language.

I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language behave for them.

I have never lost my temper. I let out my venom in my writing if I have to, but person-to-person, I have never lost my temper, never used abusive language.

I have often thought that unselfishness combined in one word more of the teachings of the Bible than any other in the language.

I have not tolerated an atheist in the ranks of the SS. Every member has a deep faith in God, in what my ancestors called in their language Waralda, the ancient one, the one who is mightier than we are.

I just don't like big guys who speak cryptically and act like they understand the language better than me.

I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.

I have seen how effective language attached to policies that are mainstream and delivered by people who are passionate and effective can change the course of history.

I know how to say 'no' in twelve languages. That's enough for a woman.

I like that confusion when people are speaking in the same language but still can't understand each other. It's also usually my experience of being in America - when I speak no one can understand what I'm saying.

I know ours is a world made by men for men, their dictatorship is so ancient it even extends to language.

I learnt to sing in Bengali, my mother tongue, then went on to sing in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati and every possible Indian language.

I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.

I learned that to be amusing was not to be frivolous and that language - always the language - was the magic key as much to prose as to poetry.

I like poetry because poetry - even in free verse - is formal, and it has to be very concise and packed and rich, and I like the feeling of having to do that, having to make the language tight and still free, as if the deepest freedom is created by the restrictions.

I like the idea that I can talk to any teenage girls. You know, in a language that makes sense to them.

I like to call someone a raving c**t every now and then, when it’s appropriate, for effect (...) ‘You cocksucker.’ I love that kind of language.

I'll probably take the prize for the most irrelevant degree. Although some of the things now where they study, you know: "post feministic colonial film theory" - those kind of majors, yeah, that's probably worse. But I was, you know, classics, Greek and Latin, like what's more irrelevant than dead languages, you know?

I like to play with someone who can cover a lot of ground and someone with whom you can discuss the language at a reasonable level; otherwise it gets a bit frustrating.

I listened to a lot of tapes of British theatre actresses and tried to learn from them. As Americans, we don't have such a gift with language.

I loved everything about Spain - the people, the language, and the food!

I loved languages, and loved learning languages. It was fantastic. But I was alone there. I remember that time as a real Virginia Woolf time. More than any language it was her language that influenced me.

I love communicating with people, and sometimes language is not enough. I think that's what poetry is, where you can mess with language and get through to things that can't be described or communicated through regular language or scientific processes.

I love language. It doesn't bother me that its effects are partial. To me that is very sanity-producing. It would be weird if the effects of language were more than partial, if your whole life existed within your texts. That would be much scarier to me than language being an inadequate tool to represent.

I love John Ashbery. He's the - really the poet laureate of English language poetry, whether he's given that or not, he is to me.

I love literature, the English language and storytelling. I also have thirty horses and seventy foxhounds to feed.