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If we trace out what we behold and experience through the language of logic, we are doing science; if we show it in forms whose interrelashionships are not accessible to our conscious thought but we are intuitively recognized as meaningful, we are doing art.

If we’re going to solve the problems of the world, we have to learn how to talk to one another. Poetry is the language at its essence. It’s the bones and the skeleton of the language. It teaches you, if nothing else, how to choose your words.

If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.

If you adopt the body language of a power player, it will greatly facilitate your ability to be a power player.

If words are to change their meanings, as assuredly they are, let each user of language make such changes as please himself, put up his own suggestions, and let the best win.

If you are a thinker, you will change the language. You will not use words the way others do.

if you are perfectly willing to shock an individual verbally, the next thing you will be doing is to shock him practically.

If you ask me, music is the language of memory

If you can describe clearly without a diagram the proper way of making this or that knot, then you are a master of the English language.

If you cannot live without justification, you cannot live; period. And the path towards it is the path of language.

If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls.

If you do not know his language, you will never understand a foreigner's silence.

If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own.

If you don’t like a language, you can go write your own.

If you give someone Fortran, he has Fortran. If you give someone Lisp, he has any language he pleases

If you know how to handle the verbs, you know how to handle the language. Everything else is just vocabulary.

If you know only one language, you're a prisoner, stuck in the tyranny of that one language.

If you listen to a language for 15 minutes, you know the rhythm and song.

If you loose the sounds comming out of New Orleans, you loose apart of the american language.

If you must kill English officials, why not kill me instead?

If you're a good numbers person, you're a bad language person.

If you're offended by any word in any language, it's probably because your parents were unfit to raise a child.

If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.

If you watch a Chinese movie with subtitles, it's just like watching an Arabic movie with Chinese subtitles. That explains why you can't take Chinese language movies and expect them to go abroad.

If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.

I gave up language for a while, and I started painting.And then I only listened to Miles Davis and other instrumental music to see how it felt to be without words.

I gravitate toward the larger worldview questions such as, Why are we here? What are we supposed to be doing? What does it mean to know another person? To love someone? Of course, those questions are sort of in the background as I'm playing with language in the foreground, but those are the informing questions.

I get along with all the women singers, but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly language.

I got really interested in the language used in blogs written by young girls - a young person's aggression, which is always lacking from the visual world.

I grew up speaking both languages, and for me that's really important.

I grew up in France, my first language was French, and I tend to gravitate towards French cooking.

I grew up with a very quick temper, and the language of violence is a language that I'm very familiar and comfortable with.

I grew up with the piano. I learned its language as I learned to speak.

I hardly ever talk- words seem such a waste, and they are none of them true. No one has yet invented a language from my point of view.

I had a quick ear and could pick up languages.

I had no voice to talk with because she was my whole language.

I had always suspected language was quite limited in its ability to communicate the intricate mysteries of truth.

I have a cat, so I know that when she digs her very sharp claws into my chest or stomach it's really a sign of affection, but I don't see any reason for programming languages to show affection with pain.

I have a major problem with the division that occurs because of the division of language.

I have a good ear for languages.

I have a pretty major problem with a language where one of the most common variables has the name $_

I have always maintained that translation is essentially the closest reading one can possibly give a text. The translator cannot ignore "lesser" words, but must consider every jot and tittle.

I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine.

I have heard the languages of apocalypse, and now I shall embrace the silence.

I have found the game to be, in all factualness, a universal language wherever I traveled at home or abroad.

I have difficulties with contemporary language. Big difficulties. I counted, you know, something like 160 words have disappeared from the English language because of the use of the word "like." "I'm like, he's like" - not "thought," not "as if .

I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language behave for them.

I have learnt to appreciate the clarity of English language.

I have not tolerated an atheist in the ranks of the SS. Every member has a deep faith in God, in what my ancestors called in their language Waralda, the ancient one, the one who is mightier than we are.

I have never lost my temper. I let out my venom in my writing if I have to, but person-to-person, I have never lost my temper, never used abusive language.