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There are things that music can do that language could never do, that painting could never do, or sculpture. Music is capable of going directly to the source of the mystery. It doesn't have to explain it. It can simply celebrate it.

There are times when the power of language is not the power that is needed.

There are very deep and restrictive principles that determine the nature of human language and are rooted in the specific character of the human mind

The reformers' preferred metaphor is "leveling the playing field." They should listen to the logic of their language: fields are leveled by bulldozers.

There has never been a time when there has been no person in Cornwall without a knowledge of the Cornish language.

There has been in our time a lack of reliance on language and a lack of experimentation which are frightening to anyone who sees them as symptoms. We know the phenomenon of stage-fright: it holds the player shivering, incapable of speech or action. Perhaps there is an audience-fright which the play can feel, which leaves him with these incapacities.

There is a great beauty in every language and there is a great language in every beauty! Be silent and listen to them!

There is a logic of language and a logic of mathematics.

There is a language beyond human language, an elemental language, one that arises from the land itself.

There is a loving way with words and an unloving way. And it is only with the loving way that the simplicity of language becomes beautiful.

There is as much need for a change of heart among the Hindus and Mussalmans as there is among the British, before a proper settlement is arrived at.

There is no language without deceit.

There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.

There is no such thing as a natural sentence but there is such a thing as a natural paragraph and it must be found.

There is no such thing as a language, not if a language is anything like what many philosophers and linguists have supposed. Thereis therefore no such thing to be learned, mastered, or born with. We must give up the idea of a clearly defined shared structure which language-users acquire and then apply to cases.

There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.

There is only one way to degrade mankind permanently and that is to destroy language.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language; an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

There is nothing more nervous than a million dollars - it moves very fast, and it doesn't speak any language.

There is the English language and then there's the Trump language.

There iz no alternativ. Every possible reezon that could ever be offered for altering the spelling of wurds, stil exists in full force; and if a gradual reform should not be made in our language, it wil proov that we are less under the influence of reezon than our ancestors.

There may be no more-radioactive term in the English language than what we now almost always refer to as the 'n-word' - itself a coy means of linguistic sidestepping that is a sign of how perilous it is to utter the thing in full, even in conversations about language.

There must be a language that doesn't depend on words.

There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging principles of human nature.

There's a reason prophets perform miracles; language lacks the power to describe faith.

There's a measure of prescriptivism and descriptivism in every dictionary. Prescriptivism believes that the language should mirror the best practices of English, and editors are prescriptivist in so far as they don't want to let things they consider to be inelegant or ungrammatical into print.

There's a theory, and I think the theory is right, that in order to make a change you've got to make the whole language of the page harmonious. Well, that's a lot easier with a computer.

There seems to be an increasing awareness of something we Americans have known for some time - that the ten most dangerous words in the English language are "Hi, I'm from the government, and I'm here to help.

There,” she said triumphantly. “Like that.” He began to wonder if they were speaking the same language. “Like what?” “That! What you just said.” He crossed his arms. It seemed the only acceptable reply. If she couldn’t speak in complete sentences, he saw no reason why he had to speak at all.

There's a melody in everything. And once you find the melody, then you connect immediately with the heart. Because sometimes English or Spanish, Swahili or any language gets in the way. But nothing penetrates the heart faster than the melody.

There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color or religion.

There's no bad writing; you did something. I was operating inside language, and I did something. I'm not ashamed of it.

There's no question that Donald Trump has had ample opportunity to distance himself from the kind of racist language that comes from some of his supporters.

There's no substitute for the love of language, for the beauty of an English sentence. There's no substitute for struggling, if a struggle is needed, to make an English sentence as beautiful as it should be.

There's nothing in the world for which a poet will give up writing, not even he is a Jew and the language of his poems is German.

There's one thing that shows up on all of the lists of what makes us human: language. Our ability to share our thoughts and complex information with others far surpasses all the barks, squeaks and growls of our animal friends.

There's something to be said about all music being some translation of our languaging, our way of communicating. It's a language. This is a new language.

There's something about the rhythms of language that correspond to the rhythms of our own bodies.

There was no language barrier when it came to kids, and when it came to play.

There's vulnerability - so I have to make sure the audience is certain that I know what I'm doing. There's vulnerability there because my heart is open, but at the same time I definitely have a lot of "weapons" at my disposal. I have all the language, I have all of the moment - I have all of that to spar with somebody, to take anything on.

There were no ill language, if it were not ill taken.

The secret of language is the secret of sympathy, and its full charm is possible only to the gentle

The shorter and the plainer the better.

The Semantic Web isn't inherently complex. The Semantic Web language, at its heart, is very, very simple. It's just about the relationships between things.

These examples of the lack of simplicity in English and French, all appearances to the contrary, could be multiplied almost without limit and apply to all national languages.

The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said "Your stay with us is so brief, let us not be reminded of the flight of the hours.

The soul inside me is the last foreign language I'm learning.

The spiritual activity of millennia is deposited in language.

The standard "foundation" for mathematics starts with sets and their elements. It is possible to start differently, by axiomatising not elements of sets but functions between sets. This can be done by using the language of categories and universal constructions.