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It's a kind of liberation to break free in language, if you can break free, but it's also a confinement, because form confines you - whatever the form.

It's a lot to ask of one creature, it's a lot to ask, that he should first behave as if he were not, then as if he were, before being admitted to that peace where he neither is, nor is not, and where the language dies that permits of such expressions.

It's always a unique challenge when you're working with somebody where English is their second language.

It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.

It's amazing. The moment you show cash, everyone knows your language.

It's a precious thing to be communicating to children, helping them discover the gift of language and thought.

It's as if we're higher apes who had a language faculty inserted.

It’s daunting to find the language so foreign, so distant, but also so thrilling. One is absolved of responsibility when the language is incomprehensible.

It seemed to me as if the stones sang, in the strangest voices, in the language of Ultima Thule.

It seems clear that the Bible belongs to an area of language in which metaphor is functional, and were we have to surrender precision for flexibility.

It seems to me that right under the surface of human neurological organization is a mode shift of some sort that would make language beholdable.

It's great that in the German language I've sold almost 30 million books. Isn't that amazing?

It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to master a foreign language if you're not brought up with it

It's interesting, editing can be so immersive for me that I've noticed that the authors I edit have a pretty profound effect on how I hear language for a while.

It's just a favorite language to me, that country finger-picking guitar style.

It's kind of pathetic actually that we are all sitting here talking about Forth. It is not the wave of the future. It's never been the wave of the future. It's not within our power to make it the wave of the future.

It's like, symbolic language, the way that people approach dense poetry... it always bugs me, because that approach suggests that it's like a mystery novel, and that if you can put together the clues, you can come up with one singular answer.

It's like learning a language; you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and that has as much to do with your body as it does with vocabulary and grammar.

It's like there are all these languages available, especially in terms of image. Why confine yourself to only English? There's all these languages and possibilities and concepts to speak or communicate with.

It's my language, the language I speak. I've spent a lot more time playing music than talking or writing.

It's nonsense to say that it's not in the bill. The reality is that the bill they will have passed to the Senate will have this language in it.

It's odd, and a little unsettling, to reflect upon the fact that English is the only major language in which "I" is capitalized; in many other languages "You" is capitalized and the "i" is lower case." --

It's the same thing,' I told her. 'What is?' 'Being afraid and being alive.' 'No,' she said slowly, and now it was as if she was speaking a language she knew at first I wouldn't understand, the very words, not to mention the concept, being foreign to me. 'Macy, no. It's not.

It's rare that I ever meet a musician who doesn't agree that music is a language. But it's very rare to meet a musician that really treats it like one.

It's still a mystery to me exactly how I learned the language. [But] I was 19 years old and I had very urgent things to tell girls.

It's perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific. The theory of that genetic component, whatever it turns out to be, is what is called universal grammar.

It's so rich as a trope - the whole idea of the road and it being in terms of language, being an active experience.

It's true that language is in a sense linear but that is as obvious as perceptual space is three-dimensional.

It's usually best not to ask philosophers anything, precisely because they have the habit of what in the Persian language is called sanud: the profitless consideration of unsettling yet inconsequential things.

It was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we'd read about it in a manual, translated from another language, and were doing our best with what we could understand.

It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.

It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word.

It was not through democratic methods that Britain bagged India.

It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.

It was pleasant to talk shop again; to use that elliptical, allusive speech that one uses only with another of one's trade.

It was once argued that 'Starring Sylvester Stallone' were the three scariest words in the English language but until I saw Adam Sandler I'd always thought the three scariest words in the English language were 'starring Dan Aykroyd.'

I type a 101 words a minute. But it's in my own language.

It would, of course, be hopeless to attempt to crowd into an international language all those local overtones of meaning which are so dear to the heart of the nationalist.

It works well for me to go ahead and prepare the sermon with a chapter in mind. What that does is to force me to be very thrifty in my language, tighten up my words and not ramble so much. It puts some fiber in the sermon.

It would seem as if the very language of our parlors would lose all its nerve and degenerate into palaver wholly, our lives pass at such remoteness from its symbols, and its metaphors and tropes are necessarily so far fetched.

I usually just speak in English when I'm on the basketball court. For some reason, my mind never even tried to cross any other language when I'm playing basketball.

I used to keep a dictionary and work with it and then I realized there are more words that exist in the English language than there are in this dictionary.

I've always been very tied to language.

I've always been so intrigued by French language and how it completely changes you, because of cultural context, because of humor.

I've always had an ear for languages and music so it's something I'm continually working on but it's fun.

I've always felt, even as a songwriter, that the rhythm of speech is in itself a language for me.

I've always had a fondness for language... English. Not that I use it correctly but I like words. I like books and I like poetry.. I like the written word... and the sung word.

I've always loved music and I love the language, which is a huge reason why I'm part of theater.

I've always said that I learned the English I know through two sources -- Marvel Comics and Finnegans Wake.

I've always loved rhyming. I love language.