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The original language of Christianity is translation.

The painting cannot be laid aside even for a day; for it takes constant work to keep 'flowing,' but above that it takes concentration, which in our language is consecration.

The pen is the language of the soul; as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings.

The philosopher caught in the nets of language.

The piano is really the featured instrument of a 10-piece chamber orchestra. The construction is the harmonic language.

[The poet] is endowed to speak for those who do not have the gift of language, or to see for those who - for whatever reasons - are less conscious of what they are living through. It is as though the risks of the poet's existence can be put to some use beyond her own survival.

The poet is a master of language, the schizophrenic is a slave to it.

The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand We are the servants of an unknown force that lives within us, manipulates us, and dictates this language to us.

The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened.

The poets are the standard bearers of language. Their work lives or dies word by word. When I write and can hear a clunky sentence, I try to write up to the poetry that I have recited beforehand.

The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak.

The power of nature exists in its silence. Human words cannot encode the meaning because human language has access only to the shadow of meaning.

The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language.

The precision provided (or enforced) by programming languages and their execution can identify lacunas, ambiguities, and other areas of potential confusion in conventional [mathematical] notation.

The presentation of hard core pornography, brutality and shocking language, from what I hear, is leaving the public jaded and tired of this kind of film.

The problems of inventing a new language are staggering. But what else can one do if one needs to express one's feeling precisely?

The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one's own style and creatively adjust this to one's author.

The problem with using C++ ... is that there's already a strong tendency in the language to require you to know everything before you can do anything.

... the progress of the language has caused us to lose many old treasures. It is thus with all progress, and one must make the best of it.

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.

The properties of executability and universality associated with programming languages can be combined, in a single language, with the well-known properties of mathematical notation which make it such an effective tool of thought.

The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.

The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.

The racism in South Asia is the most specific racism in the world. It's like racism against a slightly different language group. It's like micro-racism.

The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-granted by the persons who used it as our language is by ourselves. Nothing strange about it.

The radio was my big influence. Comedy came from the instinctual feel I had for language.

The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.

There are many other ways in which language can be used to manipulate an audience. one obvious way is to simply lie.

There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry.

The reader is the content of any poem or of the language he employs, and in order to use any of these forms, he must put them on.

There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful - many more.

There are no language barriers when you are smiling.

There are no philosophical problems, there is only a suite of interconnected linguistic cul de sacs created by language's inability to reflect the truth.

There are no two words in the English language more harmful than good job.

There are only two feelings, Love and fear: There are only two languages, Love and fear: There are only two activities, Love and fear: There are only two motives, two procedures, two frameworks, two results, Love and fear, Love and fear.

There are things that music can do that language could never do, that painting could never do, or sculpture. Music is capable of going directly to the source of the mystery. It doesn't have to explain it. It can simply celebrate it.

There are times when the power of language is not the power that is needed.

There has been in our time a lack of reliance on language and a lack of experimentation which are frightening to anyone who sees them as symptoms. We know the phenomenon of stage-fright: it holds the player shivering, incapable of speech or action. Perhaps there is an audience-fright which the play can feel, which leaves him with these incapacities.

The reformers' preferred metaphor is "leveling the playing field." They should listen to the logic of their language: fields are leveled by bulldozers.

There are very deep and restrictive principles that determine the nature of human language and are rooted in the specific character of the human mind

There has never been a time when there has been no person in Cornwall without a knowledge of the Cornish language.

There is a great beauty in every language and there is a great language in every beauty! Be silent and listen to them!

There is no language without deceit.

There is a logic of language and a logic of mathematics.

There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.

There is a language beyond human language, an elemental language, one that arises from the land itself.

There is a loving way with words and an unloving way. And it is only with the loving way that the simplicity of language becomes beautiful.

There is as much need for a change of heart among the Hindus and Mussalmans as there is among the British, before a proper settlement is arrived at.

There is no such thing as a natural sentence but there is such a thing as a natural paragraph and it must be found.

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.