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Any utterance is a major assumption of responsibility, and the assumption that one can avoid that responsibility by doing something to language itself is one of the chief considerations of the Phaedrus.

A poem is a construction of inner space. Language is to inner space as light is to material space.

A picture whose pictorial form is logical form is called a logical picture.

A poem is a form of refrigeration that stops language going bad.

A poet is the translator of the silent language of nature to the world.

APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection.

A poem employs both the sound and the sense of language, it treats words not just as signifiers but as a plastic medium of artistic expression.

Appropriation was the language of my generation in many ways. It came out of Duchamp, Warhol, Johns, Lichtenstein.

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

Arabs respect only the language of force.

Arabic is the language of the Qur'an, but Arab culture is not the culture of Islam.

A propositional sign, applied and thought out, is a thought. A thought is a proposition with a sense.

Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet

Architectural drawing is a language with conventions where the rules can be deliberately misused; a well-composed architectural drawing can both contain correct and incorrect arrangements of meaningful things.

A really good stand-up comic is a poet; it's about the use of language. It can be really poetic. And I like politically conscious comedy.

A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.

Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong to the solution set rather than the problem set?

Aristocracy and exclusiveness tend to final overthrow, in language as in politics.

[Armenian] is a rich language, however, and would amply repay any one the trouble of learning it.

Armenian is the language to speak with God.

Art after all is but an extension of language to the expression of sensations too subtle for words.

Art is an international language, understood by all.

Art is a wholly physical language whose words are all the visible objects.

Art is a universal language and through it each nation makes its own unique contribution to the culture of mankind.

Art is no longer anything more than a kind of meta-language for banality.

Art is one of the dirtiest words in our language; it's mucked up with all kinds of meanings. There's the art of plumbing; there's the art of almost anything that you can say.

Artists are perennially implored to consider 'the limitations of the medium.' Whoever invented this expression exaggerated the limitations of the English language. We are not concerned with what effects cannot be produced with our materials.

As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.

Art speaks its own language-soul to soul, heart to heart.

As a linguist, I don't think of Ada as a big language. Now, English and Japanese, those are big languages. Ada is just a medium-sized language.

As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and is in no better case than a constructed language.

As a poet who has the tools for interpreting the poem differently, you can begin to deconstruct it. But the human being who's like, "I know about conversation, I know about language, I know about hard times," will approach the poem differently.

As a prose writer, I work with language; and those who work with language turn to poetry for renewal.

As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.

A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.

As humans we speak one language.

As long as there are living human beings, there will be language and stories.

As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man.

A speaker is like a lousy auto mechanic: Every time he fixes something in the language, he screws up something else.

As thy days, so shall thy strength be which, in modern language, may be translated as thy thoughts so shall thy life be.

As we read a text in our own language, the text itself becomes a barrier.

As was his language so was his life.

As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.

A tale should be judicious, clear, succinct; The language plain, and incidents well link'd; Tell not as new what ev'ry body knows; and, new or old, still hasten to a close.

A thing well said will be wit in all languages.

At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language.

A translation can never equal the original; it can approach it, and its quality can only be judged as to accuracy by how close it gets.

Attempting to build a language wall around Quebec is precisely the wrong policy to follow. It will keep out of Quebec exactly what we need to attract by way of talent and capital; it will drive our best - francophones as well as allophones and anglophones, with their talents and capital - to leave Quebec.

At some point in the next century the number of invented languages will probably overtake the number of surviving natural languages.

At the end of the day, flirting is a pretty universal language. Americans are more direct. British people are more indirect about everything