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Among provocatives, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching. I have even more thoughts during or enduring it than at other times.

Anacalypsis: An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil of the Saitic or an Inquiry into the Origin of Languages, Nations and Religions.

An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.

A national language is a band of national union.

An author arrives at a good style when his language performs what is required of it without shyness.

Ancient and modern languages teem with happily expressed sentiments of more or less force and beauty, sufficiently individualized and excellent to warrant their reproduction and classification.

And at the end of the day, there was an attempt to suppress a book. The book wasn't suppressed. It's freely available in whatever it is, close to 50 languages. There was an attempt to suppress the writer. And I'm happy to say the writer wasn't suppressed.

And C++ programming languages, we own those, have licensed them out multiple times, obviously. We have a lot of royalties coming to us from C++.

And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation.

And it's significant that he has been using the, you know, language of betrayal in his rhetoric about Turkey. He called the shoot down a treacherous stab in the back by an accomplice of the terrorists. And that suggests that there could still be some harsh revenge in store for Turkey.

And let me tell you 'Kingdom of God' language is really big in the emerging church.

And of course the word love has many shades of meaning, as do many, many of the words in our living, breathing language

And silence, like darkness, can be kind; it, too, is a language.

And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.

And the Clave wants to meet Clarissa. You know that, Jace." "The Clave can screw itself." "Jace," Maryse said, sounding genuinely parental for a change. "Language." "The Clave wants a lot of things," Jace amended. "It shouldn't necessarily get them all.

And then I went to 'Dawson's Creek,' which is a show that was, for better or for worse, all about the language. It was a word-perfect show, which I'd never had any experience with. And it was really shocking for me. I felt really hemmed in. At the time, it wasn't my favorite working experience.

And this I have learned grown-ups do not know the language of shadows.

And we live in a kind of realm of language and words and so forth. So we can sort of relate to them. They don't exist without us. We create words.

And to imagine a language means to imagine a form of life.

And what is the very essence of poetry if it is not this 'metaphorical language'-this marking of the before unapprehended relations of things?

An ear will never do you wrong, but I know writers who... most of the language they use is just extracted language from other languages they've read. I am a big-time reader, but I mix and match.

An English tongue, if refined to a certain standard, might perhaps be fixed forever.

An Englishman is content to say nothing when he has nothing to say.

A new language requires a new technique. If what you're saying doesn't require a new language, then what you're saying probably isn't new.

An instrument that sometimes expresses thought, sometimes obscures thought, but most often replaces thought.

Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.

Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature.

An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.

Anthony Doerr again takes language beyond mortal limits.

Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.

Anyone interested in language ends up writing about the sociological issues around it.

Any Name of God in any language is worthy of respect but the original Name of God in the Semitic language is Allah. This (Semitic) is the language of the celestial entities. It is by this Name that the angels call upon God and it is attached to the Title of every Prophet.

Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.

Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of languages.

Any utterance is a major assumption of responsibility, and the assumption that one can avoid that responsibility by doing something to language itself is one of the chief considerations of the Phaedrus.

Any programming language is at its best before it is implemented and used. Anything is possible, anything can happen. On a flimsy ground of reality, imagination spins marvelous patterns.

A poem is a construction of inner space. Language is to inner space as light is to material space.

A poet is the translator of the silent language of nature to the world.

A poem is a form of refrigeration that stops language going bad.

APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection.

A poem employs both the sound and the sense of language, it treats words not just as signifiers but as a plastic medium of artistic expression.

A picture whose pictorial form is logical form is called a logical picture.

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

Arabic is the language of the Qur'an, but Arab culture is not the culture of Islam.

Appropriation was the language of my generation in many ways. It came out of Duchamp, Warhol, Johns, Lichtenstein.

Arabs respect only the language of force.

A propositional sign, applied and thought out, is a thought. A thought is a proposition with a sense.

Architectural drawing is a language with conventions where the rules can be deliberately misused; a well-composed architectural drawing can both contain correct and incorrect arrangements of meaningful things.

A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.

Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet