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

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 have a cat, so I know that when she digs her very sharp claws into my chest or stomach it's really a sign of affection, but I don't see any reason for programming languages to show affection with pain.

I have a good ear for languages.

I have always maintained that translation is essentially the closest reading one can possibly give a text. The translator cannot ignore "lesser" words, but must consider every jot and tittle.

I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine.

I have a major problem with the division that occurs because of the division of language.

I have a pretty major problem with a language where one of the most common variables has the name $_

I have difficulties with contemporary language. Big difficulties. I counted, you know, something like 160 words have disappeared from the English language because of the use of the word "like." "I'm like, he's like" - not "thought," not "as if .

I have found the game to be, in all factualness, a universal language wherever I traveled at home or abroad.

I have heard the languages of apocalypse, and now I shall embrace the silence.

I have learnt to appreciate the clarity of English language.

I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language behave for them.

I have never lost my temper. I let out my venom in my writing if I have to, but person-to-person, I have never lost my temper, never used abusive language.

I have not tolerated an atheist in the ranks of the SS. Every member has a deep faith in God, in what my ancestors called in their language Waralda, the ancient one, the one who is mightier than we are.

I have often thought that unselfishness combined in one word more of the teachings of the Bible than any other in the language.

I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.

I have seen how effective language attached to policies that are mainstream and delivered by people who are passionate and effective can change the course of history.

I just don't like big guys who speak cryptically and act like they understand the language better than me.

I learnt to sing in Bengali, my mother tongue, then went on to sing in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati and every possible Indian language.

I know ours is a world made by men for men, their dictatorship is so ancient it even extends to language.

I learned that to be amusing was not to be frivolous and that language - always the language - was the magic key as much to prose as to poetry.

I know how to say 'no' in twelve languages. That's enough for a woman.

I like that confusion when people are speaking in the same language but still can't understand each other. It's also usually my experience of being in America - when I speak no one can understand what I'm saying.

I like poetry because poetry - even in free verse - is formal, and it has to be very concise and packed and rich, and I like the feeling of having to do that, having to make the language tight and still free, as if the deepest freedom is created by the restrictions.

I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.

I like the idea that I can talk to any teenage girls. You know, in a language that makes sense to them.

I like to call someone a raving c**t every now and then, when it’s appropriate, for effect (...) ‘You cocksucker.’ I love that kind of language.

I'll probably take the prize for the most irrelevant degree. Although some of the things now where they study, you know: "post feministic colonial film theory" - those kind of majors, yeah, that's probably worse. But I was, you know, classics, Greek and Latin, like what's more irrelevant than dead languages, you know?

I like to play with someone who can cover a lot of ground and someone with whom you can discuss the language at a reasonable level; otherwise it gets a bit frustrating.

I listened to a lot of tapes of British theatre actresses and tried to learn from them. As Americans, we don't have such a gift with language.

I love language. It doesn't bother me that its effects are partial. To me that is very sanity-producing. It would be weird if the effects of language were more than partial, if your whole life existed within your texts. That would be much scarier to me than language being an inadequate tool to represent.

I love communicating with people, and sometimes language is not enough. I think that's what poetry is, where you can mess with language and get through to things that can't be described or communicated through regular language or scientific processes.

I loved languages, and loved learning languages. It was fantastic. But I was alone there. I remember that time as a real Virginia Woolf time. More than any language it was her language that influenced me.

I love John Ashbery. He's the - really the poet laureate of English language poetry, whether he's given that or not, he is to me.

I loved everything about Spain - the people, the language, and the food!

I love literature, the English language and storytelling. I also have thirty horses and seventy foxhounds to feed.

I love language as I love life itself!

I love music more than language: it's the best, it's universal.

I love the French language... it's a delightful language, especially to curse with. It's like whopping your ass with silk.

I love the language. I'm just totally fascinated by the sound and the look of words and the kinds of cadences you can create with them, the various kinds of music.

I love the language, it sounds as if it should be writ on satin with syllables which breathe of the sweet South

I love the right words. I think economy and precision of language are important.

I love variety. I love theater. I also love radio. I love language. But, the older you get, you need to earn money. You need to heighten your profile.

I love to laugh, it's my main thing. I love to abuse the English language.

I love to publish new writers, and we do so consistently. But a lot of contemporary American poets sound alike to me. They want to bring spoken, prosy language into poetry and I understand that desire. But they don't edit. It's not very curated work. It seems very lackluster, very uncareful. It may be the un-carefulness is also something they intend but there's a kind of "So what?" quality to a lot of it.

I love working in cinema - it can be in any language!

Imagine (if you dare) a whimsical marriage of Lord Dunsany and S.J. Perelman, and you have something approaching the tales of Rhys Hughes, filled with gaudy colour, slapstick, puns, fantastic creatures, and the occasional unexpected chill. Hughes' world is a magical one - and his language if the most magical thing of all.

I'm a champion for western civilization and, yes, our English language is a big part of it. It's a carrier of freedom. Wherever the English language has gone globally, freedom went with it. Science technology has always lifted up the standard of living on average of everybody on the planet. I want more of that, not less. There are civilizations that produce very little, if any. This western civilization is a superior civilization, and we want to share it with everybody.

Image is an international language.