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Like the weaver, the writer works on the wrong side of his material. He has only to do with the language, and it is thus that he suddenly finds himself surrounded by sense.

Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche parked outside?

Like the destroyer, the submarine has created its own type of officer and man with language and traditions apart from the rest of the service, and yet at the heart unchangingly of the Service

Liquid, flowing words are the choicest and the best, if language is regarded as music. But when it is considered as a picture, then there are rough words which are very telling, they make their mark.

Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another.

Literacy, written language is a very late acquisition in terms of human evolution.

Literature is always something - it is either story or poetry, ideally both. That is, you always know what it is and even if the interpretation is not available, the experience of language is.

Literature exists inside the language. It's made of words. It's not made of ideas and it's not made of concepts, of psychological analysis. It's made of words. In the same way in which music is made of notes and a painting is made of lines of colors, the matter of literature are words.

Listen to your life. Listen to what happens to you because it is through what happens to you that God speaks...It's in language that's not always easy to decipher, but it's there powerfully, memorably, unforgettably.

Literature speaks the language of the imagination, and the study of literature is supposed to train and improve the imagination.

Love can be understood only "from the inside," as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it.

Love one another, push the perimeter of this glorious language. Lastly, please show proper courtesy; open not your neighbor's mail.

Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.

Magic and art tend to share a lot of the same language. They both talk about evocation, invocation, and conjuring.

Magic, then, is not a method, but a language; it is part and parcel of that greater phenomenon, ritual, which is the language of religion. Ritual is a symbolic transformation of experiences that no other medium can adequately express.

Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language.

Make it, not make it? What's the difference? Music is a language, it's a dance of life, and it can be a part of your life without being something that earns.

Make peace with guilt. Guilt is a poisonous illusion. Many languages don't even have a word for guilt.

Making a movie is universal. Directing a movie is universal; it's a universal language.

Malcolm X found the language that communicated across the board, from college professor to floor sweeper, all at the same time, without demeaning the intellect of either.

Many a poem is marred by a superfluous verse.

Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.

Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.

Manufactured meaning has already been implanted in the unconscious through language and subliminal messages. This is why it is not wise to trust or believe our thoughts/words or the meanings. We intuitively know what is true and false and all that is needed to be known in each moment.

Many thoughts are so dependent upon the language in which they are clothed that they would lose half their beauty if otherwise expressed.

Many of the most difficult questions concerning the role of ethnic minorities centers on language.

Many writers today are wanderers. There is not only an unhousedness in language - how to convey, to say nothing of converge - but an unhousedness of place.

Mass communication communicates massively: its language lacks precise articulation and avoids demanding terms; it argues for the kind of behavior in life which will make a "good program": ethic equals showbiz.

Marriage is a language of love, equality, and inclusion.

Mastery of language affords remarkable power.

Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language.

Mathematics to me is like a language I don’t speak though I admire its literature in translation.

Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos.

Many words are in a state of mutation, the pronunciation being unsettled even in the best society, a result that must often arise where language is as variable and undetermined as the English.

Mathematics is a language

Mathematics is not a language, it's an adventure

Mathematics is the language in which the gods talk to people.

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.

Mathematics is the language of size.

Maybe because English is my second language, maybe I just translate mundane clichés from the Welsh language and they sound original in English. I am going through a bit of an obsession with bad puns. I am hoping I'll grow out of it. Maybe it's just a phase.

Maybe then you comprehend, speaking one language only is a prison!

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.

Mêmewars is electricity in language, eccentricity at its best where 'there's a profusion of presents.' This book makes eye contact with she and with me. It reminds me how being a reader can be exciting.

Men command fewer words than they have ideas to express, and language, as Jean Paul said, is a dictionary of faded metaphors.

Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.

More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English language than any other single factor.

More scientific language and less diplomatic rhetoric may make this world even better.

Most Englishmen are convinced that God is an Englishman, probably educated at Eton.

Metaphor is embodied in language.