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That's part of that thing of transcending languages. Every person will have their own language.

That's the beauty and the terror of being human beings: We just have these symbolic languages, these dreams, and that's all it ever is.

That's the trouble with languages. They have to be learned.

The 1990s were also when a bunch of the soft-shoe language for race, gender, and class became paramount. Because before that I wasn't thinking about systems or food insecurity or whatever. I was just thinking about not getting picked on for being black and not being hungry.

The absolutist takes himself to read nature in her very own language, but the relativist insists that nature does not speak, and we hear only what we have elected to hear.

The abuse of terms has at all times been an evil.

The act of language or the act of denying language carries its own heaviness.

The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.

The affectation of some late authors to introduce and multiply cant words is the most ruinous corruption in any language.

The ambiguity of poetic language answers to the ambiguity of human life as a whole, and therein lies its unique value. All interpretations of poetic language only interpret what the poetry has already interpreted.

The American language is in a state of flux based upon survival of the unfittest.

The American idiom has much to offer us that the English language has never heard of

The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth

The American language differs from the English in that it seeks the top of expression while English seeks its lowly valleys.

The angles of my body show you an awful lot. I started doing coke to feel open, but by that time, the hole had opened so wide that I'd fallen through. The body language in those photos tells you everything.

The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second.

The basic agreement between human beings, indeed what makes them human and makes them social, is language.

The bare fact that language consists of sounds which are mutually intelligible is enough of itself to show that its meaning depends upon connection with a shared experience.

The basis of any independent government is a national language, and we can no longer continue aping our former colonizers ... those who feel they cannot do without English can as well pack up and go.

The best armor against everything around you is to be well educated, to work hard, to be twice as good as if you had to be, to do languages and culture better.

The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself.

The best propaganda omits rather than invents

The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a tapestry.

The best translators slip into the glove of a text and then turn it inside out into another language, and the whole thing comes out looking like a brand-new glove again. I'm completely in awe of this skill, since I happen to be both bilingual and a writer, but nevertheless a lousy translator.

The Bible doesn't speak of "women's rights" in the social-political language we're used to hearing today. Still, that doesn't mean the Bible is silent on the subject.

The Bible is God's Word given in man's language

The British are weak in numbers, we are weak in spite of our numbers.

The book of nature is written in the language of mathematics.

The British power is the overlord without whom Indian princes cannot breathe.

The Britisher is the top dog and the Indian the underdog in his own country.

The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much bigger business of plunder.

The business, task or object of the scientific study of languages will if possible be 1) to trace the history of all known languages. Naturally this is possible only to a very limited extent and for very few languages.

The canker has so eaten into the society that in many cases the only meaning of education is a knowledge of English.

The chief merit of language is clearness.

The careful choice of words, the scrubbing of language, the calculated images we presented to the external audiences - those were all major parts of my daily life over there. So, some of that is going to seep over into what I showed in the novel and - more importantly - how I showed it.

The censorship of language is the censorship of consciousness.

The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.

The Catholic faith never changes. But the language and mode of manifesting this one faith can change according to peoples, times and places.

The choosing among words is made by every user of the language, and not exclusively by professional speakers and writers.

The Christian faith is mysterious to the core. It is about things and beings that ultimately can't be put into words. Language fails. And if we do definitively put God into words, we have at that very moment made God something God is not.

The clans began to bombard the outer force field with rockets, missiles, nukes, and harsh language.

The cliché is dead poetry. English, being the language of an imaginative race, abounds in clichés, so that English literature is always in danger of being poisoned by its own secretions.

The C language combines all the power of assembly language with all the ease-of-use of assembly language.

The classical scholars have kept alive the tradition of the superiority of the ancient languages -- a kaleidoscopic mass of suffixes and prefixes, supposed to represent an infinite shading of meaning. It is a character they share with the Ojibway and the Zulu.

The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule.

The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor.

The dictionary is, however, only a rough draft.

The connection between the language in which we think/program and the problems and solutions we can imagine is very close. For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.

The dictionary has been in the making for several decades, and the result is well worth the wait. MacLean and those who worked with her have consulted with Iñupiaq speakers from across Alaska's North Slope to compile a comprehensive collection of word stems, along with postbases, grammatical endings, and an array of other valuable material. . . . This dictionary will prove fascinating for anyone interested in the Iñupiat and their language.