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My love of the British is equal to that of my own people.

My mind works like Google for images. You put in a key word; it brings up pictures. See language for me narrates the pictures in my mind.

[My mother tongue is] Albanian. But, I am equally fluent in Bengali (language of Calcutta) and English.

My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention.

My mum made a conscious decision not to teach me any Indian languages so I wouldn't talk with an accent.

My natural tendency is to fall in love with language and character and setting, and kind of forget about pacing. Narrative tension doesn't come naturally to me, and if it does feel fast-paced that makes me incredibly happy.

My opinion is that more languages you speak, better it is, but but when you come to America, you speak English.

My own view is that one cannot be religious in general any more than one can speak language in general; at any given moment one speaks French or English or Swahili or Japanese, but not 'language.

My personal religion enables me to serve my countrymen without hurting the English or, for that matter, anybody else.

My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language

My plea is for banishing the English language as a cultural usurper, as we successfully banished the political rule of the English usurper.

My poems and prose are not often in direct conversation with each other, but there's so much crossover - everything that comes out of that crucible of language - that working in poetry and prose is energizing - to me as a writer and to the work itself.

My plays have been translated into all of the official languages of South Africa except Afrikaans.

My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness.

My response to my friend Naheed Nenshi was simply to say that some of the hyperbolic language that's being used to critique this sensible reinforcement of the public nature of the citizenship oath is, I think, unhelpful, and is actually inflaming the situation.

Myspace alone has just over 80 million users and ranks as the sixth most popular English language website and the eighth most popular site in the world.

My stories do have plot. They're not just scattered language; they're controlled, toward an end.

My subconscious speaks in a foreign language.

My version of relativism is pluralistic and attributes functions to morality that in combination with human nature place limits on what could count as a true morality. Unlike many other relativists, I do not hold that people are subject to a morality because they all belong to a certain group. That is, I don't hold that being a member of a group makes one's subject to some set of generally accepted norms. What is true is that others around us teach us morality and moral language, so they inevitably influence us.

Name, no, nothing is nameable, tell, no, nothing can be told, what then, I don't know, I shouldn't have begun.

[Nabokov's] language is made visible . . . like a veil or transparent curtain. You cannot help seeing the curtain as you peek into the intimate rooms behind.

Natural languages generally are not designed by humans, they're just designed by the participants and you say something new and somebody else says, "Oh, that's a cool way to say it," and the next thing you know, everyone is saying it because it's shiny.

National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.

Naturally, my body language changes given whatever environment I'm in.

Native speakers of a language know intuitively whether a sentence is grammatical or not. They usually cannot specify exactly what is wrong, and very possibly they make the same mistakes in their own speech, but they know-unconsciously, not as a set of rules they learned in school-when a sentence is incorrect.

Nature is written in mathematical language.

Nature is the common, universal language, understood by all.

Negotiating with memories isn't easy: how to choose between those panting to be told, those still ripening, those already shriveling, and those destined to be mangled by language and come out pulverized?

Net - the biggest word in the language of business.

Neither the mouse nor the boy was the least bit surprised that each could understand the other. Two creatures who shared a love for motorcycles naturally spoke the same language.

Never ask a woman if you may kiss her. Instead, learn to read body 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.

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

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 intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated.

No language is rude that can boast polite writers.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language.

No one likes my books except the public.

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.