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Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's.

What I liked about Greece was [...] the impressive force of the language itself, unconfined by dictionaries, spoken in the streets, in cafés and in the country.

What I'm constantly striving for in my prose is clarity. So that, ideally, the writing will become so transparent that the reader will forget that the medium of communication is language.

What I'm after is that wakeful state through language that stays alive.

What is a nation without a mother tongue?

What I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion. What I'm finding is that in our increasingly dysfunctional U.S. society, marvelous poetry is being written - out of and amid the dysfunction.

What is it that really makes us, us? It's our collective intelligence. It's our ability to write things down, our language and our consciousness.

What is lofty can be said in any language. What is mean should be said in none.

What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.

What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends.

What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. The ability to have somebody read something and see it, or for somebody to paint an entire landscape of visual imagery with just sheets of words - that's magical.

What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.

What narrative journalism does is create a language or open up a space where someone can say, "Oh, this happened to me, too.

What other creature, besides the lion, the tiger, and the whale, can answer Creation in its own language?

What poetry is asking us to accept can be difficult. Our proximity to our mortality, the fragility of our existence, how close we live in every moment to nameless abysses, and the way language itself is beautifully, tragically, thrillingly insufficient...these are some of the engines that drive the poem. It's natural to want to turn away from these things. But we have to face them, as best we can, at least sometimes. Poetry can help us in that nearly impossible work.

What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things.

What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule.

What’s the impulse behind art? It’s saying in whatever language is the language of your work, “If I could move you as much as it moved me … if I can move anyone a tenth as much as that moved me, if I can spark the same sense of mystery and awe and surprise as that sparked in me, well that’s why I do what I do.”

What the eye sees is a synthesis of who you are and all you have learned. This is what I would call the language of photography.

What the elements are to chemistry, what the sounds are to music, are words to language.

What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man.

When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies.

When a Japanese manufacturer was asked by his North American counterpart, What is the best language in which to do business?" the man responded: "My customer's language

When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility.

When cafe life thrives, talk is a shared limberness of the mind that improves appetite for conversation: an adequate sentence maker is then made good, a good one excellent, an excellent one extraordinary.

When a person has an accent, it means he can speak one more language than you

When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it's funny in any language.

Whenever a man undergoes a considerable change, in consequence of being observed by others, whenever he assumes another gait, another language, than what he had before he thought himself observed, be advised to guard yourself against him.

Whenever I've been bitten, it's because I made a mistake. I either misread the dog's body language or let my guard down at the wrong time.

Whenever one reads of the determination of the species, or opens a book on natural science and history, in whatever language, one inevitably comes across the name of Linne.

When I go to photograph somebody, they say, "What do you want me to do?" Those are the most frightening words in the English language. I want to say, "Please, go over into good light and do something unusual.

Whenever we can make 25 words do the work of 50, we halve the area in which looseness and disorganization can flourish.

When fundamentalism comes to kill, it can kill with the language - the Apostle James says this, not me - and even with a knife, no?

When experience flies into realms that language cannot touch, honesty demands beyond-language.

When I get on the internet and hide behind a false identity, and then allow that hiding to free me from the standards of decency, to begin to use language I would never use in front of my mother, all of a sudden, there's nothing between me and you, but worse than that, there's nothing between me and my worst self.

When I'm drafting right to life language, I don't call up the nuns.

When I said. A rose is a rose is a rose. And then later made that into a ring I made poetry and what did I do I caressed completely caressed and addressed a noun.

When I started writing seriously in high school, English was the language I had at my disposal - my Spanish was domestic, colloquial, and not particularly literary or sophisticated.

When I started writing my stories, I thought that not only nobody outside my language, but nobody outside my neighbourhood would get them.

When I say that we have met the Martians and they are us, I am using colorful language to suggest that we may have been seeded in the process of panspermia.

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.

When I tour with a band, things get more unconscious and more automatic as the tour goes on. Music has to be like natural speech. It's probably like learning a foreign language. Thinking about the use of pronouns is not the passionate part of communicating with people.

When it's done with being graceful and poetic, language is meant to communicate, after all.

When money gets too far away from actual, physical, real equity and property it gets too abstract and too distantly derived and then suddenly it's not worth anything anymore. And the same is true of language.

When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It's nourishing; it's rejuvenating.

When my books were translated, it was always about the characters, because the unique language aspect was lost in translation.

When the heart speaks, its language is the same under all latitudes.

When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.

When speech is divorced from speaker and word from meaning, what is left is just ritual, language as ritual.

When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time slowly evolved.