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I do have a regard for the musicality of language that came from BBC sitcoms like 'Fawlty Towers.'

I do love to interpret songs in American Sign Language.

I do not pretend that language is science. It isan instrument for the attainment of science.

I do not share the wish to see my language dead and decently buried

I don't have any phobias with any language, and I've grown up listening to Anglo-American rock n roll as well as Welsh-language punk rock and I'm all for sharing languages.

I don't know what it is about the french language, it seems to be scared of coming out of the mouth so it comes out the nose instead.

I don't know what the language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called Fortran.

I don't know whose sensibility I'm responding to. Until someone starts pushing against what they've inherited and starts making their own decisions about language, it's difficult.

I don't like reading music. It's like learning a language. You can't read music proficiently overnight. It takes time, it's boring work.

I don't read my reviews, I measure them.

I don't speak anything fluently, but I love picking up languages and I do this Duolingo app. I started when I moved to Sweden, when I was about 19, 20. I really loved the language; it was super melodic and really sexy.

I don't speak anything very well. The longer that you travel, you find out that you really don't even need to speak the language to get around and get things done, to live in those places. If you're somewhat resourceful and perceptive, you're pretty much going to know what's going on because human nature is human nature: they understand it, you understand it, and it works.

I don't speak ... I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own.

I don't think all poems need to be written in conversational language - those are often great poems but there should also be poems of incoherent bewilderment and muddled mystery.

I don't think there's any words in the English language to explain what it's -what it's like to- to sit on Texas death row and your thoughts are laying on that gurney, convicted but innocent and being put to death.

I don't think I've ever quite grown out of it, actually. There was a point where I could recite some of those Elvish verses - which I've mercifully forgotten. But I can still, if really pushed, recite the text of the inside of the ruling ring in the language of Mordor.

I don't write in Portuguese. I write myself.

I don't use those terms [like Uncle Tom], and I would never speak in that kind of language.

I don't use coarse language very often. I have a larger vocabulary than that.

I do swear a lot, but the advantage is that having played abroad, I can choose a different language from the referee's.

I do that in whatever language of the country I'm in, because the audience appreciate it.

I do try to incorporate particular rhythmic and generally sonic motifs I discover in music as such, and if one thinks of language in a narrow sense, that, perhaps, suggests a possibility for a rhythmic sensibility that enters poetry from outside of language.

I dream of a language whose words, like fists, would fracture jaws.

If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.

I’d thought I knew what beauty was in women; but she’d surpassed all the language I had for it.

If a language is corruptible, then a constitution written in that language is corruptible.

If any Englishman dedicated his life to securing the freedom of India, resisting tyranny and serving the land, I should welcome that Englishman as an Indian.

If I have to do something, I feel I should do it perfectly, and ofcourse, Hindi language is a problem.

If apple is the language of the future, then art must be the core.

If (early humans) weren't using and refining language I would like to know what they were doing with their autocatalytically increasing brains.

I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.

I feel Mahatma Gandhi's non-violence was for the intelligent, educated British.It was not for those who don't understand this language.

I feel that I speak the musical language.

I feel that Pride and Prejudice is an incredibly well constructed novel on every level. The dialogue is great. The character development is great. The plotting is great. The pacing is great. The language is great.

I felt like I had reached the end of a period of life, where the work was jumping about and pushing something new every time. I wanted to dial it back and create a language that was stable and deep.

If God had so wished, he would have made all Indians speak with one language ... the unity of India has been and shall always be a unity in diversity.

If I could have any power, I think flying would definitely be up there! Along with speaking every language.

If I do not speak in a language that can be understood there is little chance for a dialogue.

I find righteous denunciations of the present state of the language no less dismaying than the present state of the language.

I find vocabulary to be a great drawback.

If it's racist, it's racist. If it's anti-Semitic, it's anti-Semitic. If it's anti-women, it's anti-women. If it's anti-immigrant, it's anti-immigrant, and we need to really strengthen our language, so that it is clear and not mushy.

If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning.

I feel more Irish than English. I feel freer than British, more visceral, with a love of language. Shot through with fire in some way. That's why I resist being appropriated as the current repository of Shakespeare on the planet. That would mean I'm part of the English cultural elite, and I am utterly ill-fitted to be.

I feel that music is more flexible than language and your song, or "piece" is only as flexible as your least flexible component.

I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining

If I were really fluent and born into the English language, I would probably become a greater writer.

If language is intimately related to being human, then when we study language we are, to a remarkable degree, studying human nature.

If only. The saddest two words in any language.

If only…the saddest words in the English language.

I found in investigative journalism it is always best, if you have any language skills, not to admit them.