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I feel that I speak the musical language.

I feel that Pride and Prejudice is an incredibly well constructed novel on every level. The dialogue is great. The character development is great. The plotting is great. The pacing is great. The language is great.

I feel that music is more flexible than language and your song, or "piece" is only as flexible as your least flexible component.

I felt like I had reached the end of a period of life, where the work was jumping about and pushing something new every time. I wanted to dial it back and create a language that was stable and deep.

If God had so wished, he would have made all Indians speak with one language ... the unity of India has been and shall always be a unity in diversity.

If I could have any power, I think flying would definitely be up there! Along with speaking every language.

If I do not speak in a language that can be understood there is little chance for a dialogue.

If I have to do something, I feel I should do it perfectly, and ofcourse, Hindi language is a problem.

I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining

I find righteous denunciations of the present state of the language no less dismaying than the present state of the language.

I find vocabulary to be a great drawback.

If it's racist, it's racist. If it's anti-Semitic, it's anti-Semitic. If it's anti-women, it's anti-women. If it's anti-immigrant, it's anti-immigrant, and we need to really strengthen our language, so that it is clear and not mushy.

If I were really fluent and born into the English language, I would probably become a greater writer.

If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning.

If language is intimately related to being human, then when we study language we are, to a remarkable degree, studying human nature.

If only. The saddest two words in any language.

If only…the saddest words in the English language.

I found in investigative journalism it is always best, if you have any language skills, not to admit them.

If the Irish programme did not insist on the Irish language I suppose I could call myself a nationalist. As it is, I am content torecognize myself an exile: and, prophetically, a repudiated one.

If someone tried to assimilate you for years, if your language was forbidden, if the names of your hometown were changed, what would do you but revolt.

If there is anything good about exile, it is that it teaches one humility. It accelerates one’s drift into isolation, an absolute perspective. Into the condition at which all one is left with is oneself and one’s language, with nobody or nothing in between. Exile brings you overnight where it would normally take a lifetime to go.

if there's one thing consistent about language it is that it is constantly changing. The only languages that do not change are those whose speakers are dead.

If there is ever a science of programming language design, it will probably consist largely of matching languages to the design methods they support.

If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who should and do know better.

If the world is made of language, then you can hack it in the sense that you can hack code.

If the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless.

If we had the right words, if we had the language, we would need no weapons.

If we are transparent, with nothing to hide, the gap between language and being disappears. Then the Muse can speak.

If we have listening ears, God speaks to us in our own language, whatever that language be

If we had had the right technology back then, you would have seen Eva Braun on the Donahue show and Adolf Hitler on Meet the Press.

If we look at the representatives of two superpowers - America and Britain - and look at their conduct and their language, we would notice that they are more motivated by war than their responsibility for peace.

If we trace out what we behold and experience through the language of logic, we are doing science; if we show it in forms whose interrelashionships are not accessible to our conscious thought but we are intuitively recognized as meaningful, we are doing art.

If we’re going to solve the problems of the world, we have to learn how to talk to one another. Poetry is the language at its essence. It’s the bones and the skeleton of the language. It teaches you, if nothing else, how to choose your words.

If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.

If we have to prove our Europeanism by accepting that French is the dominant language in the Community, then my answer is quite clear, and I will say it in French in order to prevent any misunderstanding: Non, merci beaucoup .

If you adopt the body language of a power player, it will greatly facilitate your ability to be a power player.

If words are to change their meanings, as assuredly they are, let each user of language make such changes as please himself, put up his own suggestions, and let the best win.

If you are a thinker, you will change the language. You will not use words the way others do.

If you ask me, music is the language of memory

if you are perfectly willing to shock an individual verbally, the next thing you will be doing is to shock him practically.

If you can describe clearly without a diagram the proper way of making this or that knot, then you are a master of the English language.

If you do not know his language, you will never understand a foreigner's silence.

If you cannot live without justification, you cannot live; period. And the path towards it is the path of language.

If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls.

If you don’t like a language, you can go write your own.

If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own.

If you know how to handle the verbs, you know how to handle the language. Everything else is just vocabulary.

If you give someone Fortran, he has Fortran. If you give someone Lisp, he has any language he pleases

If you listen to a language for 15 minutes, you know the rhythm and song.

If you know only one language, you're a prisoner, stuck in the tyranny of that one language.