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She was fluent in four languages and yet her fists against the rusted hood were the fullest articulation of her defeat.

Signs cannot be represented, in a spy's report, so damningly as words.

signs are an extremely personal language that we develop throughout our lives, by trial and error, until we begin to understand that God is guiding us.

Silence is God's language, and it's a very difficult language to learn.

Silence is the language of inertia.

Silence is the only language god speaks.

Since music is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man.

Singing beautiful melodies is one thing, but to deliver the text so that the people understand it, even in a foreign language, has to be worked at very hard.

Skepticism cannot be revolutionary, even though it speaks the language of revolution.

Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.

Smaller incidents in my life made me realize that language, even more than color, defines who you are to people.

Smiles are the language of love.

Soap operas are a world where rich people always have chandeliers and hip people have striped hair and the language that they use doesn't have any flexibility anymore.

So a lot of what you see in the Baroque Cycle is me wanting to be one of those guys. In the case of Anathem, I needed something that was more formal, less flashy, as if it had been translated from the classical language of another planet, but enlivened with slang terms that a teenage narrator would enjoy throwing around.

Socialist ideology is making France go to pot, and the French language with it.

So far as the advocates of a constructed international language are concerned, it is rather to be wondered at how much in common their proposals actually have, both in vocabulary and in general spirit of procedure.

So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.

So learning to play a new instrument, learning a new language - those sorts of things will pay dividends for years or decades to come.

So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.

So long as we use a certain language, all questions that we can ask will have to be formulated in it and will thereby confirm the theory of the universe which is implied in the vocabulary and structure of the language.

So mathematical truth prefers simple words since the language of truth is itself simple.

Somebody said to me that I speak English almost like somebody for whom English is not their first language.

Someone gave me the Love Languages book, and that has been the best book I've ever read about relationships and has helped me the most.

Some changes of language are to be regretted, as they lead to false inferences, and society is always a loser by mistaking names for things.

Some people are really into being music-minded and knowing all their scales and how to read music and speak the language.

Sometimes during solitude I hear truth spoken with clarity and freshness; uncolored and untranslated it speaks from within myself in a language original but inarticulate, heard only with the soul, and I realize I brought it with me, was never taught it nor can I efficiently teach it to another.

Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.

Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language.

Something of the previous state, however, survives every change. This is called in the language of cybernetics (which took it form the language of machines) feedback, the advantages of learning from experience and of having developed reflexes.

Sometimes, you just have to reassure the ones you love in precise language that you'll always be there. Sometimes words are enough.

Sometimes I talk to myself in languages I'm unfamiliar with... just to screw with my subconscious.

Sometimes you're not in the best environment. Sometimes you're not speaking the same language and it's not a good place to work. It's a lot to give, actually. And for not a lot of money.

Sometimes the government has to answer questions with ambiguous language.

Some very considerable part of the gestural language of public places that had once belonged to cigarettes now belonged to phones.

So women are at the beginning of building a language, and not all women are conscious of it.

So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to make films without words.

Speaking more than one language and living in a multicultural family and environment did not seem like anything but what it was: the world I lived in.

Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue.

Speech happens to not be his language.

Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.

Speak the language of the company you are in; speak it purely, and unlarded with any other.

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks.

Spoken language clearly differentiates Homo sapiens from all other creatures. None but humankind produces a complex spoken language, a medium for communication and a medium for introspective reflection.

Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground.

Stay away from restaurants that have menus in five languages. Thats always a tourist trap. You want to eat where the locals eat.

Style is just an impression. Style itself is hollow. Style, its ok style as long as it is part of a language. Style for style itself is just something very hollow.

Styles come and go. Good design is a language, not a style.

Subversive language, however, must be constantly reinvented, because it is continually being co-opted by the powerful.

Stories are the reproductive organs of language.