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Ram Mohan Roy would have been a greater reformer and Lokmanya Tilak a greater scholar if they had not to start with the handicap of having to think in English and transmit their thoughts chiefly in English.

Rather than thinking of sound and sense in my essays as two opposing principles, two perpendicular trajectories, as they are often considered in conversations around translation, or even as two disassociated phenomena that can be brought together to collaborate with more or less success, I think of sound as sense. Sound has its own meaning, and it's one of the many non-semantic dimensions of meaning in language. I want to emphasize is the formal dynamic between language-as-information and language-as-art-material.

Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today. Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction. See whether wisdom is just a lot of language.

Realistically, English is a universal language; it's the number one language for music and for communicating with the rest of the world.

Reality is captured in the categorical nets of Language only at the expense of fatal distortion.

Reason" in language - oh, what an old deceptive female she is! I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar.

"Rednecks" always made me nervous to play, but I'm glad I wrote it and I continue to play it. It's just that the language is so rough.

Regarding language as an apparatus of symbols for the conveyance of thought, we may say that, as in a mechanical apparatus, the more simple and the better arranged its parts, the greater will be the effect produced.

Regardless of whether one is dealing with assembly language or compiler language, the number of debugged lines of source code per day is about the same!

Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up.

Regret; The saddest word in the English language.

Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.

Religion is the life of India, religion is the language of this country, the symbol of all its movements.

Rembrandt is so deeply mysterious that he says things for which there are no words in any language.

Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.

Representative institutions are as much a part of the true Briton as his language and his literature.

Requirements in mathematical language are no use unless they are easier to read than the code.

Research shows that those kids who text frequently are more likely to be the most literate and the best spellers, because you have to know how to manipulate language.

resignation, perhaps the most stifling word in the language.

Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language.

Reversing a proposition rearranges its terms, but still keeps out new terms.

Rincewind could scream for mercy in nineteen languages, and just scream in another forty-four.

Romance is a universally unspoken language understood by all living organism on this planet except heterosexual men.

RUMOUR: "Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, The which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.

Russian is a very deceptive language, because it looks easy at first: it's like setting out for a gentle stroll and realizing that you've committed yourself to scaling Himalayan peaks.

Samskrit language, as has been universally recognized by those competent to form a judgment, is one of the most magnificent, the most perfect, the most prominent and wonderfully sufficient literary instrument developed by the human mind.

Saddam Hussein also challenged President Bush to a debate. The Butcher of Baghdad vs. the Butcher of the English language.

Sallust is indisputably one of the best historians among the Romans, both for the purity of his language and the elegance of his style.

Sebastian sighed an exaggerated sigh and swung the door shut. Clary stared at Jace. "What the f-" "Language, Fray." Jace's eyes danced. "Relax.

Scholarship hath no fury like that of a language purist faced with sludge.

Sci-Fi is incredibly challenging and has its own language. I have to speak its language; it's not going to learn mine.

Scrape the surface of language, and you will behold interstellar space and the skin that encloses it.

Samskrit is the unsurpassed zenith in the whole development of languages yet known to us.

Schizophrenic language has in this sense an interesting resemblance to poetry.

Second-generation Hispanics marry non-Hispanics at a higher rate than second-generation Irish or Italians. Second-generation Hispanics' English language capability rates are higher than previous immigrant groups'.

Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage everywhere. Everyone feels that they are represented by him on the stage.

Selfish-gene theory tells us nothing about the value of interacting through language.

Shakespeare language is fantastic, and to be honest, you dont need to do anything to Shakespeare.

Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study of language.

Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages... all forms of communication - visual, tactile, and so on... There is general semiotics, which is a philosophical approach to this field, and then there are many specific semiotics.

Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head.

Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and it's reflected in his writings.

She was fluent in four languages and yet her fists against the rusted hood were the fullest articulation of her defeat.

Signs cannot be represented, in a spy's report, so damningly as words.

signs are an extremely personal language that we develop throughout our lives, by trial and error, until we begin to understand that God is guiding us.

Silence is God's language, and it's a very difficult language to learn.

Silence is the language of inertia.

Silence is the only language god speaks.

Since music is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man.

Smaller incidents in my life made me realize that language, even more than color, defines who you are to people.