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Experience is always larger than language.

Expressing love in the right language. We tend to speak our own love language, to express love to others in a language that would make us feel loved. But if it is not his/her primary love language, it will not mean to them what it would mean to us.

Expressing emotion is not so easy. He has to remind himself that English is not her first language. Expressing emotion can be difficult even when the words are familiar.

Extending the language of film sometimes starts with just trying to show one true thing.

Faction is the greatest evil and the most common danger. "Faction" is the conventional English translation of the Greek stasis, one of the most remarkable words to be found in any language.

["Faggot"] is a great word! The whole thing about language is, it's supposed to be broadcasting your intentions. These are my intentions and these words broadcast my feelings. If all of a sudden you have forbidden words that doesn't make the intent any better. It's just appeasing sensitive people.

Faire language grates not the tongue.

Faith is the physical description of God. That's what He is. It's the only word we have in our language to accurately describe His physical form.

Fancy language, like poplin, too often conceals an eczema.

Fashion is an instant language.

Fashion is instant language.

Fashion is a language. Some know it, some learn it, some never will - like an instinct.

Fashions are not fashions at all but refashioning; language is not communication but reinvention. They are never in place but on display.

Felicity, not fluency of language, is a merit.

Fierce language and pretentious advances are signs that the enemy is about to retreat.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Filthy language is used by people who don't have the maturity or intelligence to express themselves with better words.

First it must be known that only a spoken word or a conventional sign is an equivocal or univocal term; therefore a mental contentor concept is, strictly speaking, neither equivocal nor univocal.

First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used before that had never been used in the English language before. It's astonishing. It pours out of him.

For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead.

For a large class of cases - though not for all - in which we employ the word meaning it can be explained thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language.

Force is the only language the imperialists can hear, and no country became free without some sort of violence.

For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love.

For centuries, everything was taught through music. History was taught through music; language and mathematics were taught through music.

For economic safety for the future, you must have multiple skills and languages. Success is basically being the best that you can be.

for it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscriptions on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language known to men, but intimacy itself, which is knowledge

For me making friends with locals is hard, mostly because my lack of Vietnamese language skills and being retired I have limited access to locals in the work place. Though for me it is hard meeting expats as well, as most expats work here and make friends through their jobs.

For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not.

For me, music was always a second language. I didn't have a musical background, and I started studying very late, at fourteen.

For me, myth is the 'common' language of us all.

For me, language is a freedom. As soon as you have found the words with which to express something, you are no longer incoherent, you are no longer trapped by your own emotions, by your own experiences; you can describe them, you can tell them, you can bring them out of yourself and give them to somebody else. That is an enormously liberating experience.

For me, music and sound are both the language and underlying architecture of the cosmos.

For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language.

For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond.

For me music is totally freeing, and it's its' own language too. You follow it, in a way.

For me, rather than the language, the Hollywood system of making movies was a tremendous learning experience.

For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.

For someone like you who's a British citizen this might seem strange. How can you ban a language? It turns out that you can. During the dictatorship it was illegal to speak Catalan. This is an experience that we Catalans have all had to varying extents. Some more tense than others, but it's something we all share.

For those of us who write, it is necessary to scrutinize not only the truth of what we speak, but the truth of that language by which we speak it.

French is a language that makes those who speak it both calm and dynamic.

French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me.

For years I lived rather medicated and muted - I did not possess language to describe my vague feelings of unhappiness, to politicize it, to attempt to transcend it.

French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy.

French: why does this language even exist? Everyone there speaks english anyway.

From now on I will consider a language to be a set (finite or infinite) of sentences, each finite in length and constructed out ofa finite set of elements. All natural languages in their spoken or written form are languages in this sense.

Fun has to rule in a lot of scenarios. Occasionally, when you are really getting going, you need to stretch beyond language. It has to go out the window.

From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us.

Further, I'm obsessed with how language contorts and creates bodies.

George Orwell once blamed the demise of the English language on politics. It's quite possible he never read a prospectus.

Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught.