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To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cannot convey the scale of a view that is so stunning it is felt.

To get rid of the infatuation for English is one of the essentials of Swaraj.

To get someone to pose, you have to be very good friends and above all speak the language.

To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language.

To me the Yiddish language and the conduct of those who spoke it are identical.

To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost -that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization -is to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization.

To say a grid is limiting is to say that language is limiting, or typography is limiting. It is up to us to use these media critically or passively.

To see Stephen Spender fumbling with our rich and delicate language is to experience all the horror of seeing a Sevres vase in the hands of a chimpanzee.

To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.

To talk about paintings is not only difficult but perhaps pointless too. You can only express in words what words are capable of expressing-- what language can communicate. Painting has nothing to do with that.

To the young, cliches seem freshly minted.

To understand a sentence means to understand a language. To understand a language means to be master of a technique.

To understand animal thinking you've got to get away from a language.

To transform experience and thought into language and narrative - that is beautiful even if that beauty is in brokenness.

To understand is to perceive patterns.

To work our way towards a shared language once again, we must first learn how to discover patterns which are deep, and capable of generating life.

Tout refus du langage est une mort. Any refusal of language is a death.

To write about history or language is supposed to be within the reach of every man. To write about natural science is allowed to be within the reach only of those who have mastered the subjects on which they write.

Translations are a partial and precious documentation of the changes the text suffers.

Translations increase the faults of a work and spoil its beauties.

Translation from one language to another is like viewing a piece of tapestry on the wrong side where though the figures are distinguishable yet there are so many ends and threads that the beauty and exactness of the work is obscured.

Translation is at best an echo.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.

Twitter is most suitable for me. In the Chinese language, 140 characters is a novella.

Truth and falsity is something that concerns language, it's a property of language.

Two nations divided by a common language.

Two monologues do not make a dialogue.

Typography at its best is a visual form of language linking timelessness and time.

Typography tended to alter language from a means of perception and exploration to a portable commodity.

Typography is what language looks like.

Under the tropic is our language spoke, And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our yoke.

Unencountered Language is the court and spark between words we recognize and those we don't.

Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels.

Understanding that these statements do not represent reality, we should not be threatened by the language that he has used.

Unintelligible language is a lantern without a light.

Unkind language is sure to produce the fruits of unkindness--that is, suffering in the bosom of others.

Unlike the ambiguity of life, the ambiguity of language does reach a limit.

Urdu can not die out because it has very strong roots in Persia. The language itself is not only just the language of the Muslims, but it's also the language of the Hindus.

Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such.

Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy.

Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.

Usage is the best language teacher.

Vague expression permits the hearer to imagine whatever suits him and what he already thinks in any case.

Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect?

Visual journaling allows us to access our inner language of imagery and express it both verbally and visually, while exploring the connection between image and word.

Was there a little time between the invention of language and the coming of true and false?

We agree that language functions in a certain way so that we can understand each other; but within that are built all sorts of sentimental codes, codes of authenticity, codes of certain kinds of emotion.

We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.

We always translate the other person's language into our own language.

We are at a time in our country's history that inclusive language is better than exclusive language.