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

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

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

I've always been very tied to language.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad.

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

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

I want to be able to control things and that's very difficult to do if you're not 100% in a particular language. It makes you uncertain and it makes you nervous.

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 wanted to make new works of very contemporary objects, which I thought was interesting because many of them are manufactured in China, but these objects are universal, they go across all languages, all cultures.

I was always fascinated by diagramming a sentence. Because that is going into a space, going into a world of language.

I was concerned with something like the notion of 'language speaking the subject,' and with the transformation of the woman herself into a sign in a system of signs that represent a system of food production, a system of harnessed subjectivity.

I want to eat good Italian food and get better at their language. It seems so romantic too.

I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano.

I was never much of a reader. I'm a slow reader, which is unusual, because I'm so into language and I love words so much. But it's hard for me to read.

I was very adept at acquiring languages.

I was worried people would laugh at me when I started to talk the language, but they were just pleasantly surprised that I could. The sense of humour here is great - once I could have a giggle, I settled down.

I was more worn out with the "Odyssey" than it was with the "Iliad." I mean, just comparing those two - you can see how it's changing, how the language of the "Iliad" is somehow monstrously new - and that language of the "Odyssey" is more comfortable, even for us.

I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.

I wish that I spoke more languages. I speak a couple languages, but not well enough to really dub myself. French is really the only one, and it's a difficult thing.

I wish that I spoke more languages because I think each language is a window completely.

I work in Hebrew. Hebrew is deeply inspired by other languages. Not now, for the last three thousand years, Hebrew has been penetrated and fertilized by ancient Semitic languages - by Aramaic, by Greek, by Latin, by Arabic, by Yiddish, by Latino, by German, by Russian, by English, I could go on and on. It's very much like English. The English language took in many many fertilizations, many many genes, from other languages, from foreign languages - Latin, French, Nordic languages, German, Scandinavian languages. Every language has influences and is an influence.

I worked in a bookstore in Oslo, importing the English-language books.

I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.