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Every Englishman is an average Englishman: it is a national characteristic.

Every good writer has much idiom; it is the life and spirit of language.

Every individual or national degeneration is immediately revealed by a directly proportional degradation in language.

Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.

Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language.

Every language having a structure, by the very nature of language, reflects in its own structure that of the world as assumed by those who evolved the language. In other words, we read unconsciously into the world the structure of the language we use.

Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.

Everyone, he went on, speaks a language he does not understand, but which now and then is understood by others. That is enough to permit one to exist and at least to be misunderstood.

Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.

Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.

Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of language.

Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility.

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.

Every word was once a poem. Every new relation is a new word.

Experience is always larger than language.

Expressing love in the right language. We tend to speak our own love language, to express love to others in a language that would make us feel loved. But if it is not his/her primary love language, it will not mean to them what it would mean to us.

Expressing emotion is not so easy. He has to remind himself that English is not her first language. Expressing emotion can be difficult even when the words are familiar.

Extending the language of film sometimes starts with just trying to show one true thing.

Faction is the greatest evil and the most common danger. "Faction" is the conventional English translation of the Greek stasis, one of the most remarkable words to be found in any language.

["Faggot"] is a great word! The whole thing about language is, it's supposed to be broadcasting your intentions. These are my intentions and these words broadcast my feelings. If all of a sudden you have forbidden words that doesn't make the intent any better. It's just appeasing sensitive people.

Faire language grates not the tongue.

Faith is the physical description of God. That's what He is. It's the only word we have in our language to accurately describe His physical form.

Fancy language, like poplin, too often conceals an eczema.

Fashion is an instant language.

Fashion is instant language.

Fashions are not fashions at all but refashioning; language is not communication but reinvention. They are never in place but on display.

Fashion is a language. Some know it, some learn it, some never will - like an instinct.

Felicity, not fluency of language, is a merit.

Fierce language and pretentious advances are signs that the enemy is about to retreat.

First it must be known that only a spoken word or a conventional sign is an equivocal or univocal term; therefore a mental contentor concept is, strictly speaking, neither equivocal nor univocal.

Filthy language is used by people who don't have the maturity or intelligence to express themselves with better words.

Finality is not the language of politics.

First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used before that had never been used in the English language before. It's astonishing. It pours out of him.

For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead.

For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love.

For a large class of cases - though not for all - in which we employ the word meaning it can be explained thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the 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, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language.

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 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.

Force is the only language the imperialists can hear, and no country became free without some sort of violence.

For centuries, everything was taught through music. History was taught through music; language and mathematics were taught through music.

For economic safety for the future, you must have multiple skills and languages. Success is basically being the best that you can be.

for it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscriptions on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language known to men, but intimacy itself, which is knowledge

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.