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If the Irish programme did not insist on the Irish language I suppose I could call myself a nationalist. As it is, I am content torecognize myself an exile: and, prophetically, a repudiated one.

If there is anything good about exile, it is that it teaches one humility. It accelerates one’s drift into isolation, an absolute perspective. Into the condition at which all one is left with is oneself and one’s language, with nobody or nothing in between. Exile brings you overnight where it would normally take a lifetime to go.

If there is ever a science of programming language design, it will probably consist largely of matching languages to the design methods they support.

if there's one thing consistent about language it is that it is constantly changing. The only languages that do not change are those whose speakers are dead.

If the world is made of language, then you can hack it in the sense that you can hack code.

If the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless.

If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who should and do know better.

If we are transparent, with nothing to hide, the gap between language and being disappears. Then the Muse can speak.

If we have listening ears, God speaks to us in our own language, whatever that language be

If we had had the right technology back then, you would have seen Eva Braun on the Donahue show and Adolf Hitler on Meet the Press.

If we had the right words, if we had the language, we would need no weapons.

If we have to prove our Europeanism by accepting that French is the dominant language in the Community, then my answer is quite clear, and I will say it in French in order to prevent any misunderstanding: Non, merci beaucoup .

If we look at the representatives of two superpowers - America and Britain - and look at their conduct and their language, we would notice that they are more motivated by war than their responsibility for peace.

If we trace out what we behold and experience through the language of logic, we are doing science; if we show it in forms whose interrelashionships are not accessible to our conscious thought but we are intuitively recognized as meaningful, we are doing art.

If we’re going to solve the problems of the world, we have to learn how to talk to one another. Poetry is the language at its essence. It’s the bones and the skeleton of the language. It teaches you, if nothing else, how to choose your words.

If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.

If you adopt the body language of a power player, it will greatly facilitate your ability to be a power player.

If words are to change their meanings, as assuredly they are, let each user of language make such changes as please himself, put up his own suggestions, and let the best win.

If you are a thinker, you will change the language. You will not use words the way others do.

if you are perfectly willing to shock an individual verbally, the next thing you will be doing is to shock him practically.

If you ask me, music is the language of memory

If you can describe clearly without a diagram the proper way of making this or that knot, then you are a master of the English language.

If you cannot live without justification, you cannot live; period. And the path towards it is the path of language.

If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls.

If you do not know his language, you will never understand a foreigner's silence.

If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own.

If you don’t like a language, you can go write your own.

If you're a good numbers person, you're a bad language person.

If you give someone Fortran, he has Fortran. If you give someone Lisp, he has any language he pleases

If you know how to handle the verbs, you know how to handle the language. Everything else is just vocabulary.

If you know only one language, you're a prisoner, stuck in the tyranny of that one language.

If you loose the sounds comming out of New Orleans, you loose apart of the american language.

If you must kill English officials, why not kill me instead?

If you're offended by any word in any language, it's probably because your parents were unfit to raise a child.

If you listen to a language for 15 minutes, you know the rhythm and song.

If you watch a Chinese movie with subtitles, it's just like watching an Arabic movie with Chinese subtitles. That explains why you can't take Chinese language movies and expect them to go abroad.

If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.

If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.

I get along with all the women singers, but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly language.

I gave up language for a while, and I started painting.And then I only listened to Miles Davis and other instrumental music to see how it felt to be without words.

I gravitate toward the larger worldview questions such as, Why are we here? What are we supposed to be doing? What does it mean to know another person? To love someone? Of course, those questions are sort of in the background as I'm playing with language in the foreground, but those are the informing questions.

I got really interested in the language used in blogs written by young girls - a young person's aggression, which is always lacking from the visual world.

I grew up speaking both languages, and for me that's really important.

I grew up in France, my first language was French, and I tend to gravitate towards French cooking.

I grew up with a very quick temper, and the language of violence is a language that I'm very familiar and comfortable with.

I grew up with the piano. I learned its language as I learned to speak.

I had a quick ear and could pick up languages.

I had always suspected language was quite limited in its ability to communicate the intricate mysteries of truth.

I hardly ever talk- words seem such a waste, and they are none of them true. No one has yet invented a language from my point of view.

I had no voice to talk with because she was my whole language.