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Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal

Africa. There are a gazillion different languages people speak there, different bone structures, so vast and different.

A foreign observer is struck by our gentleness: by the orderly behaviour of the English crowds, the lack of pushing and quarrelling, the willingness to form queues.

A French politician once wrote that it was a peculiarity of the French language that in it words occur in the order in which one thinks them.

Afrikaans is my first language, although you would never know, as my English accent has more of an American-British thing going on from all my years of travelling.

After all, nothing helps to write lyrics more than to mess around with the language.

After an extensive interview he arranged for my weaknesses in foreign languages to be over-looked and so I started a Biology degree at Birmingham in 1967.

After meeting the family, they really felt like a sitcom family, ... I thought it would be cool if we did a reality show, but told it with the visual language of a sitcom format.

After we have made our requests known to Him, our language should be, "Thy will be done". I would a thousand times rather that Gods' will should be done than my own.

A gloss is a total system of perception and language.

A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.

A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest.

Agosins poetic language engages the reader in a mesmerizing journey of inward reflection and exile.

A great artist can really enter the logic of any particular mazurka and fully understand the language of Chopin's music.

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.

A language not based on universal symbols or sensations is gibberish, a pitfall of modern art, no longer modern.

A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do

A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages with it.

[Albert Camus] really did know Algeria. He was an exile from his country, but still living in its language. Solitaire et solidaire. It's not like those who are exiled to a country where the language is not theirs.

A language, like a species, when extinct, never... reappears.

A language is a map of our failures

A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.

A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs.

Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language.

A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms.

All biblical exegetes and theologians have a theory of language, whether they acknowledge it or not.

All Christian language about the future is a set of signposts pointing into a mist.

[Allegory] is a flight by which the human wit attempts at one and the same time to investigate two objects, and consequently is fitted only to the most exalted geniuses.

All Gaul is divided into three parts, one of which the Belgae inhabit, the Aquitani another, those who in their own language are called Celts, in ours Gauls, the third.

All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory.

All language is but a poor translation.

All language is a popularity contest.

All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.

All language is rhetorical, and even the senses are poets.

All mathematics is is a language that is well tuned, finely honed, to describe patterns; be it patterns in a star, which has five points that are regularly arranged, be it patterns in numbers like 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 that follow very regular progression.

All mystics speak the same language, for they come from the same country.

All propositions are of equal value.

All of us in Quebec - and I mean all of us - have allowed language to become a preoccupation that works to the disadvantage of all of us - and I mean all of us.

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.

All these years there had been a Tupperware container of bad language in her head, and now she opened it and all those crisp, crunchy words were fresh and lovely, ready to be used.

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.

All the best bands have a language, and what they say within that language makes it is what it is.

All the facts of nature are nouns of the intellect, and make the grammar of the eternal language. Every word has a double, trebleor centuple use and meaning.

A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.

Although mathematical notation undoubtedly possesses parsing rules, they are rather loose, sometimes contradictory, and seldom clearly stated. [...] The proliferation of programming languages shows no more uniformity than mathematics. Nevertheless, programming languages do bring a different perspective. [...] Because of their application to a broad range of topics, their strict grammar, and their strict interpretation, programming languages can provide new insights into mathematical notation.

A man is known by the books he reads.

Although I could lament in the language and feelings of David for Absalom, I am constrained to say, peace to his manes. Let us weep for the living, and not for the dead.

Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage.

A man who has a language consequently possesses the world expressed and implied by that language.