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In the United States there's not a lot of people interested in foreign language films. Every time, it's more difficult for foreign language films to survive here.

I often feel like I want to think something but I can't find the language that coincides with the thoughts, so it remains felt, not thought. Sometimes I feel like I'm thinking in Swedish without knowing Swedish.

I often focus more on language than on the conveying of information.

I owe my own fluency with language to Brooklyn. Everyone talked about everything, from the Dodgers to the revolution.

I paint with a language I can call my own... it takes a ruthless honesty with oneself. If one admires or is influenced by anyone else, one is not being true to oneself.

I read the Bible to myself; I'll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.

I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.

I refuse to put the unnecessary strain of learning English upon my sisters for the sake of false pride or questionable social advantage.

I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I've finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a single sentence that closely resembles the sentence I first set down. I just find that I have to keep zapping and zapping the English language until it starts to behave in some way that vaguely matches my intentions.

Irish is a leprechaun language.

Is calling English our national language racist? Are we at that point?

I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.

I speak the truth but I guess that's a foreign language to ya'll!

I see tendencies, I see body language.

I speak to people in the languagethey understand. First I have a dialogue, if that is not understood I speak inanother language. There is no remedy for this.

I speak to you in one tongue/ but every moment that ever mattered to me/ occurred in another language.

I speak two languages, Body and English.

Isn’t the most sensitive point of this mourning the fact that I must lose a language — the amorous language? No more ‘I love you’s.

I stand and listen to people speaking french in the stores and in the street. It's such a pert, crisp language, elegant as ruffling taffeta.

I started out with machine code and assembly language.

Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?

I suppress in my prose any language which calls attention to itself.

I suggest to young professors that their first work should be written in a jargon only to be understood by the erudite few. With that behind them, they can ever after say what they have to say in a language 'understand of the people.'

I support local solutions to illegal immigration as protected by the 10th amendment. I support making English the official language of all documents and contracts.

It consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language.

It becomes 'one's own' only when the speaker populates it with his own intentions, his own accent, when he appropriates the word, adapting it to his own semantic and expressive intention. Prior to this moment of appropriation, the word does not exist in a neutral and impersonal language (it is not, after all, out of a dictionary that the speaker gets his words!), but rather it exists in other people's mouths, in other people's contexts, serving other people's intentions: it is from there that one must take the word, and make it one's own

It behaves more like a tribe than a democratic institution...responding to custom rather than reason and using its own liturgy and language for the conduct of its domestic affairs.

It behooves us to avoid archaisms. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do.

It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.

It has been discovered that C++ provides a remarkable facility for concealing the trival details of a program - such as where its bugs are.

I think American is very democratic in allowing different hues of language and parts of speech to commingle. William Logan once wrote that I had something of a fetish for what he called "Haute Couture Vulgarity.

I think a lot of guys who are on the internet a lot, they're kind of anesthetized to some of the violent language and all that because they see it all the time.

I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out.

I think it's often easier to theorize in the official codes of theory rather than to theorize lightly through scene, object, story, and incident in ways that keeps alive the sensual serendipities of language. This is not a question of being for or against theory, but rather of being suspicious of orthodoxies that concede, in advance, that what passes for theory must be signaled by a narrowing of diction, sentence rhythms, and sensual awareness. I'm in favor of surprise.

I think in general I've never dared compose in Spanish. First of all, it is such an intricate language.

I think it'd be pretty cool to fly. Actually, I'd like to be Language Gal. My super power is that I can speak every language.

I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature.

I think that phrase is the most horrible phrase in the English language - 'I don't know.' It's terribly embarrassing.

I think language is the most important thing that human beings have ever accomplished, and the only thing that's really going to get us all out of the troubles that we find ourselves in.

I think of myself primarily as a reader, then also a writer, but that's more or less irrelevant. I think I'm a good reader, I'm a good reader in many languages, especially in English, since poetry came to me through the English language, initially through my father's love of Swinburn, of Tennyson, and also of Keats, Shelley and so on - not through my native tongue, not through Spanish. It came to me as a kind of spell. I didn't understand it, but I felt it.

I think we're still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate.

I think the one thing humans are is language wizards.

I think the most annoying language is a tie between all the ones I don't know how to speak.

I think they've got 250 languages in Nigeria, and so English is a sort of lingua franca between the 250 languages.

I think when we engage in language we are engaging in something that is specifically and primally human.

I think yes is the most beautiful and necessary word in the English language.

It is as though the ancestors who made language and knew from what bestiality its use rescued them are saying to us: Beware of interfering with its purpose! For when language is seriously interfered with, when it is disjoined from truth, be it from mere incompetence or worse, from malice, horrors can descend again on mankind.

It is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be in the grasp of superficially educated people.

I thought it was respectful to each country to sing in their language.

It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish.