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I want to eat good Italian food and get better at their language. It seems so romantic too.

I want to go beyond the restrictions of language, religion and caste, and music is the only thing that allows me to do that.

I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.

I was always fascinated by diagramming a sentence. Because that is going into a space, going into a world of language.

I was concerned with something like the notion of 'language speaking the subject,' and with the transformation of the woman herself into a sign in a system of signs that represent a system of food production, a system of harnessed subjectivity.

I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano.

I was more worn out with the "Odyssey" than it was with the "Iliad." I mean, just comparing those two - you can see how it's changing, how the language of the "Iliad" is somehow monstrously new - and that language of the "Odyssey" is more comfortable, even for us.

I was never much of a reader. I'm a slow reader, which is unusual, because I'm so into language and I love words so much. But it's hard for me to read.

I was very adept at acquiring languages.

I was worried people would laugh at me when I started to talk the language, but they were just pleasantly surprised that I could. The sense of humour here is great - once I could have a giggle, I settled down.

I will never stop working on Spanish-language projects because that's my language, and because I'm a Latina and Mexican before anything else.

I will not allow my daughters to learn foreign languages because one tongue is sufficient for a woman.

I wish that I spoke more languages. I speak a couple languages, but not well enough to really dub myself. French is really the only one, and it's a difficult thing.

I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.

I wish that I spoke more languages because I think each language is a window completely.

I work in Hebrew. Hebrew is deeply inspired by other languages. Not now, for the last three thousand years, Hebrew has been penetrated and fertilized by ancient Semitic languages - by Aramaic, by Greek, by Latin, by Arabic, by Yiddish, by Latino, by German, by Russian, by English, I could go on and on. It's very much like English. The English language took in many many fertilizations, many many genes, from other languages, from foreign languages - Latin, French, Nordic languages, German, Scandinavian languages. Every language has influences and is an influence.

I worked in a bookstore in Oslo, importing the English-language books.

I write drama in the English language. If I wasn't working in London I'd be doing something wrong.

I would not rob you of your food or your clothes or your umbrella, but if I caught your German out I would take it. But I don't study any more,- I have given it up.

I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.

I would have thought it possible to choose delegates for these larger conferences who, even if they could not speak the principal languages, could at least understand them or could have friends seated beside them who could keep them informed on essential points.

I would love to learn other languages, maybe French? My uncle speaks German so maybe also German? Chinese seems to be too difficult.

I write on a visual canvas, 'seeing' a scene in my thoughts before translating it into language, so I'm a visual junkie.

Jazz is the language of the emotions.

Jargon: any technical language we do not understand.

JavaScript is the only language that I'm aware of that people feel they don't need to learn before they start using it.

Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared.

Jim Jarmusch: Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.

Job Control Language is the worst programming language ever designed anywhere by anybody for any purpose.

Just as surely as every new language mastered opens up a new world, so knowledge of a Beethoven, a Chopin, or a Schumann opens up a new world in spiritual beauty and thought.

Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt.

Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.

Knowledge and Experience do not necessarily speak the same language.

Kindness is a language herd by deaf men and felt by blind men.

Language comes into being, like consciousness, from the basic need, from the scantiest intercourse with other human.

Language designed to impress builds a gulf. Language to express builds a bridge.

Language disguises thought.

Language etches the grooves through which your thoughts must flow.

Language helps develp life as surely as it reflects life. It is a most important part of our human condition.

Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.

Language is a living thing. It must survive in men's minds and on their tongues if it survives at all.

Language is always ambivalent. Its forms mutate and connect in unexpected ways. It's hard to instrumentalize language. But I think it's better to explore linguistic potentials than to keep on using language that's past its expiration date.

Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.

Language is a nice way to remember things.

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

Language is a signifier - it points to something. But those somethings change sometimes. Where the line comes down is that change is not in the dictionary first, it's not: change the signifier and the signified will go away.

Language is a social event.

Language is a unifying instrument which binds people together. When people speak one language they become as one, they become a society.

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

Language is butchered by the media