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For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language.

For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not.

For me making friends with locals is hard, mostly because my lack of Vietnamese language skills and being retired I have limited access to locals in the work place. Though for me it is hard meeting expats as well, as most expats work here and make friends through their jobs.

For me, music was always a second language. I didn't have a musical background, and I started studying very late, at fourteen.

For me, myth is the 'common' language of us all.

For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond.

For me music is totally freeing, and it's its' own language too. You follow it, in a way.

For me, language is a freedom. As soon as you have found the words with which to express something, you are no longer incoherent, you are no longer trapped by your own emotions, by your own experiences; you can describe them, you can tell them, you can bring them out of yourself and give them to somebody else. That is an enormously liberating experience.

For me, music and sound are both the language and underlying architecture of the cosmos.

For me, rather than the language, the Hollywood system of making movies was a tremendous learning experience.

For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.

For someone like you who's a British citizen this might seem strange. How can you ban a language? It turns out that you can. During the dictatorship it was illegal to speak Catalan. This is an experience that we Catalans have all had to varying extents. Some more tense than others, but it's something we all share.

For those of us who write, it is necessary to scrutinize not only the truth of what we speak, but the truth of that language by which we speak it.

For years I lived rather medicated and muted - I did not possess language to describe my vague feelings of unhappiness, to politicize it, to attempt to transcend it.

French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me.

French is a language that makes those who speak it both calm and dynamic.

French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy.

French: why does this language even exist? Everyone there speaks english anyway.

From now on I will consider a language to be a set (finite or infinite) of sentences, each finite in length and constructed out ofa finite set of elements. All natural languages in their spoken or written form are languages in this sense.

From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us.

Fun has to rule in a lot of scenarios. Occasionally, when you are really getting going, you need to stretch beyond language. It has to go out the window.

Further, I'm obsessed with how language contorts and creates bodies.

Geek it's really more a characteristic where you don't socialize. You don't talk the normal languages.

Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught.

Geometry in every proposition speaks a language which experience never dares to utter; and indeed of which she but halfway comprehends the meaning.

George Orwell once blamed the demise of the English language on politics. It's quite possible he never read a prospectus.

Given Loughner's obsession with meaninglessness and language, maybe Foucault & Derrida deserve some fault here, too.

God doesn't expect us to perform for him. He loves us always-when we're disappointed or hurt or making a mess of things. Sometimes we speak to him in a language that only he can understand. What matters to him is that we are vulnerable, that we are completely ourselves. We are work, too, but God cherishes us.

Give your mind a chance to travel through foreign languages.

Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.

God has stated in clear and concise language how He created the universe and we ought not to doubt His Word.

Go learn the language. Go take some acting lessons. Start from zero like everybody else.

Good design, at least part of the time, includes the criterion of being direct in relation to the problem at hand - not obscure, trendy, or stylish. A new language, visual or verbal, must be couched in a language that is already understood.

Gore speaks to America as if English is its second language; George W. speaks as if English is his second language.

Good temper and moderation are the characteristics of parliamentary language.

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Good translations are one of the vital necessities of our time.

Grasp the subject, the words will follow.

Grammar is the analysis of language.

Grammar, perfectly understood, enables us not only to express our meaning fully and clearly, but so to express it as to enable us to defy the ingenuity of man to give to our words any other meaning than that which we ourselves intend them to express.

Grammar is not a set of rules; it is something inherent in the language, and language cannot exist without it. It can be discovered, but not invented.

Had the Bible been in clear straightforward language, had the ambiguities and contradictions been edited out, and had the language been constantly modernised to accord with contemporary taste it would almost certainly have been, or become, a work of lesser influence.

Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries.

Hands have their own language.

Has it ever occurred to you,' he said, 'that the whole history of English poetry has been de-termined by the fact that the English language lacks rhymes?

Hath any wounded thee with injuries? Meet them with patience. Hasty words rankle the wound; soft language dresses it.

Hash, x. There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is. Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable. Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.

Having an international voice is not really about whether we speak Persian or any other language.

Hebrew is deeply inspired by other languages.