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We should never lower our dignity by lowering our language.

We think of history as another specialization, like philosophy of language, rather than as something that informs everything we do and think.

We tried to make it more than just a cartoon. It was a cartoon, but we tried to make it more than it was to begin with. And I have 300,000 followers from Turkey, Romania, Poland, and places over there that love Life With Louie, where it was translated into their language. They love it. They are absolutely in love with it. And it just goes to show you: no matter where you go, it's always about family.

We sit for a few more moments, although there's really nothing left to say. This is new to me, too, an entire conversation that takes place in silence, because the heart has its own language. I will remember what Eric says even though he doesn't say a word. I will tell it to her.

We think in language. We think in words. Language is the landscape of thought.

We who write in English are fortunate to have the richest and most versatile language in the world. Respect it.

We've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first.

We use so much bad language that it forms a barrier between ourselves and the truth.

We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.

What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words.... Be not the slave of Words.

What else is the power of melody but the power of feeling? Music is the language of feeling; melody is audible feeling - feeling communicating itself.

Whatever Language Pakistan understands India should teach in that language

Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's.

We will go to every part of Tamil Nadu and tell the people that Hindi is coming and that it is like a thunder strike on the heads of Tamil and Dravidian people.... If Hindi were to become the official language of India, Hindi-speaking people will govern us. We will be treated like third rate citizens

What I'm after is that wakeful state through language that stays alive.

What is a nation without a mother tongue?

What I'm constantly striving for in my prose is clarity. So that, ideally, the writing will become so transparent that the reader will forget that the medium of communication is language.

What I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion. What I'm finding is that in our increasingly dysfunctional U.S. society, marvelous poetry is being written - out of and amid the dysfunction.

What I liked about Greece was [...] the impressive force of the language itself, unconfined by dictionaries, spoken in the streets, in cafés and in the country.

What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.

What is lofty can be said in any language. What is mean should be said in none.

What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. The ability to have somebody read something and see it, or for somebody to paint an entire landscape of visual imagery with just sheets of words - that's magical.

What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.

What narrative journalism does is create a language or open up a space where someone can say, "Oh, this happened to me, too.

What other creature, besides the lion, the tiger, and the whale, can answer Creation in its own language?

What poetry is asking us to accept can be difficult. Our proximity to our mortality, the fragility of our existence, how close we live in every moment to nameless abysses, and the way language itself is beautifully, tragically, thrillingly insufficient...these are some of the engines that drive the poem. It's natural to want to turn away from these things. But we have to face them, as best we can, at least sometimes. Poetry can help us in that nearly impossible work.

What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends.

What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule.

What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things.

What is it that really makes us, us? It's our collective intelligence. It's our ability to write things down, our language and our consciousness.

What the elements are to chemistry, what the sounds are to music, are words to language.

What’s the impulse behind art? It’s saying in whatever language is the language of your work, “If I could move you as much as it moved me … if I can move anyone a tenth as much as that moved me, if I can spark the same sense of mystery and awe and surprise as that sparked in me, well that’s why I do what I do.”

When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies.

What the eye sees is a synthesis of who you are and all you have learned. This is what I would call the language of photography.

What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man.

When a Japanese manufacturer was asked by his North American counterpart, What is the best language in which to do business?" the man responded: "My customer's language

When a person has an accent, it means he can speak one more language than you

When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility.

Whenever a man undergoes a considerable change, in consequence of being observed by others, whenever he assumes another gait, another language, than what he had before he thought himself observed, be advised to guard yourself against him.

When cafe life thrives, talk is a shared limberness of the mind that improves appetite for conversation: an adequate sentence maker is then made good, a good one excellent, an excellent one extraordinary.

When fundamentalism comes to kill, it can kill with the language - the Apostle James says this, not me - and even with a knife, no?

When experience flies into realms that language cannot touch, honesty demands beyond-language.

When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it's funny in any language.

Whenever I've been bitten, it's because I made a mistake. I either misread the dog's body language or let my guard down at the wrong time.

Whenever one reads of the determination of the species, or opens a book on natural science and history, in whatever language, one inevitably comes across the name of Linne.

Whenever we can make 25 words do the work of 50, we halve the area in which looseness and disorganization can flourish.

When I get on the internet and hide behind a false identity, and then allow that hiding to free me from the standards of decency, to begin to use language I would never use in front of my mother, all of a sudden, there's nothing between me and you, but worse than that, there's nothing between me and my worst self.

When I go to photograph somebody, they say, "What do you want me to do?" Those are the most frightening words in the English language. I want to say, "Please, go over into good light and do something unusual.

When I say that we have met the Martians and they are us, I am using colorful language to suggest that we may have been seeded in the process of panspermia.

When I'm drafting right to life language, I don't call up the nuns.