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Next to ‘God’, ‘love’ is the word most mangled in every language.

Nobody in my family or in my neighborhood used the language that they used at the University of Chicago. I remember the first time I heard the word "value" repeated again and again by my professor. Value to me was the price of a frying pan.

Nobody is capable of of free speech unless he knows how to use language, and such knowledge is not a gift: it has to learned and worked at.

Nobody knows everything-one of the pleasures of language is that there is always something new to learn-and everybody makes mistakes.

No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge

No language is rude that can boast polite writers.

No language exists that cannot be misused... Every Interpretation is hypothetical, for it is a mere attempt to read an unfamiliar text.

No intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated.

No language which lends itself to visualizability can describe quantum jumps.

No' is the second shortest word in the English language, but one of the hardest to say.

No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.

No matter what your cultural sophistication or what language you speak, everyone can understand images.

Non-co-operation is a movement intended to invite Englishmen to co-operate with us on honourable terms or retire from our land.

No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.

Non-reaction is a language that everyone understands. It communicates to the offender and causes him to be upset with the upset that he intended for you.

No one can create a noteworthy work without knowing the tenets of their own language and literature. Language is renewed but it never changes its essence, because the contracts that have come about over time for communication cannot be rescinded so easily.

No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language.

No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.

No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.

No one likes my books except the public.

No, she wasn't losing language. She was choking on it.

No statement about God is simply, literally true. God is far more than can be measured, described, defined in ordinary language, or pinned down to any particular happening.

Notes and chords have become my second language and, more often than not, that vocabulary expresses what I feel when language fails me.

Nothing in a language is less translatable than its modes of understatement.

Nothing in life is fair. Fair is a dirty word and I'll thank you not to use that language around me.

Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.

Novels are more difficult simply because they are longer and require more juggling, but short stories are closer to perfection, if you can get the language right.

Not literature alone, but society itself is wormed and rotten when language ceases to be respected not merely by advertisers and politicians, but by persons of learning and authority.

Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors.

No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality.

Nothing which is harmonized by the bond of the Muse can be changed from its own to another language without destroying its sweetness

Not only are animals unable to avail themselves of language to assert their own rights, but many fewer humans have a clear sense of kinship with animals than have a clear sense of kinship with other humans. Among beings with subjective states of awareness, animals are the untouchable caste, those whom human others would rather not acknowledge, let alone render assistance.

Now, I'm not the only language designer with irrationalities. You can think of some languages to go with some of these things.

Numbers constitute the only universal language.

Numbers are really fascinating things, and they do play a big part in our lives. They are a language of their own.

Obviously, there is pleasure in the execution of any sort of art, and using language, as Nabokov felt also, is an exquisite process.

Obviously, it's some kind of freely commanded modality in the psyche with which we can have a relationship if we will but evolve a control language and a dialogue. And it remains mysterious.

Of all the words in all languages I know, the greatest concentration is in the English word I.

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

Of course language arose in a Darwinian biological world, because that's all there is, but that world relates only superficially to the pop-biology that circulates informally.

Of course, we carry inside of ourselves our parents. Even when they are dead, we carry them inside ourselves. And they are carrying inside themselves their dead parents and so on and so forth. There is a legacy of language and culture and religion.

Of course, C proved indispensible to the developers of all its alternatives. Dig down through enough implementation layers under any of the other languages surveyed here and you will find a core implemented in pure, portable C

Often I am struck in amazement about a word: I suddenly realize that the complete arbitrariness of our language is but a part of the arbitrariness of our own world in general.

Old Marley was dead as a doornail... The wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.

Of those who say nothing, few are silent.

Oh, God, I don't know what's more difficult, life or the English language.

Omens are the individual language in which God talks to you. My omens are not your omens.

Once i spoke the language of the flowers,Once i undrestand each word the caterpillar said,Once i smiled in secret at the gossip of the starlings.

Often when you get a really good script, and you receive the new pages, you see that the entire thing has been dumbed down. Films in the '30s and '40s, that were huge blockbusters, were very sophisticated in their language, and the ideas they brought. There were no questions about whether the audience would get it or not.

Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.