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

A translator is essentially a reader and we all read differently, except that a translator's reading remains in unchanging print

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

At Ungaro, I discovered the flou and the language of Paris.

Average. It was the worst, most disgusting word in the English language. Nothing meaningful or worthwhile ever came from that word.

A wheel that can be turned though nothing else moves with it, is not a part of the mechanism.

A written discourse on any subject is bound to contain much that is fanciful.

Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it.

Bad writing is bad not just because the language is humdrum, but the quality of the observation is so poor.

Bad impulse buys make you feel grim, don't they? It's like having consumer Tourette's. I gravitate towards austere foreign-language film DVDs when insecure.

Baseball is a universal language. Catch the ball, throw the ball, hit the ball.

Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here.

Beautiful books are always written in a sort of foreign language.

Beauty is part of the finished language by which goodness speaks.

Beauty is undefinable in language. It's something that you see when you see it, or you feel when you feel it, or you hear when you hear it. It usually encompasses all five of the senses. It can't exist without it being a somehow sensorial experience. But, I don't think it's quantifiable. Nothing is really quantifiable. Nothing is certain in love and friendship. We all try to understand these things.

Be careful. I wouldn’t want anything to happen to the worst Spanish student in the history of the language.” I laughed. “No problemo.

Because English is the universal language. No matter where you come from, if you sing in English, you can cross over to the world.

Because education is such a broad area, I chose to focus on language learning.

Because of our kinship in suffering, our channels of contact have always been charged with the language of the heart.

Because Music is a language that lives in the spiritual realms, we can hear it, we can notate it and create it, but we cannot hold it in our hands

Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.

Being a writer requires an intoxication with language.

Because there'd be two languages I couldn't speak, French and English.

Before we got engaged, he never farted. Now it's a second language.

Being a pianist allows me to play in any language.

Being that can be understood is language.

Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you.

Besides language and music, mathematics is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind.

Better say nothing at all. Language is worth a thousand pounds a word!

Better than chanting a thousand words in a dead language is one soothing word spoken in the vernacular.

Bilingualism is for me the fundamental problem of linguistics.

But, after all, the sciences have made progress, because philosophers have applied themselves with more attention to observe, and have communicated to their language that precision and accuracy which they have employed in their observations: In correcting their language they reason better.

Body language is so important, as is composition. You can not say something, and then the body reacts, and it says a lot of things dialogue can also say.

Boycott brought about anyhow of British cloth cannot yield the same results as such boycott brought about by hand-spinning and khaddar.

Body language is more powerful than words.

Bunny boiler is now part of our language, and I'm proud of that.

But the kind of love that God created and demonstrated is a costly one because it involves sacrifice and presence. It's a love that operates more like a sign language than being spoken outright.

But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.

But the possibility of abuse may be a good reason for leaving capabilities out of other computer languages, it's not a good reason for leaving capabilities out of Perl.

But the Dutch speak four languages and smoke marijuana!

Chennai is the birthplace of a new language in cinema. The audiences here are the most evolved moviegoers to be found anywhere in India.

By a generative grammar I mean simply a system of rules that in some explicit and well-defined way assigns structural descriptions to sentences. Obviously, every speaker of a language has mastered and internalized a generative grammar that expresses his knowledge of his language. This is not to say that he is aware of the rules of the grammar or even that he can become aware of them, or that his statements about his intuitive knowledge of the language are necessarily accurate.

By stretching language we'll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide.

Challenging power structures from the inside, working the cracks within the system, however, requires learning to speak multiple languages of power convincingly.

But what am I? An infant crying in the night: An infant crying for the light: And with no language but a cry.

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.